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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Dec 2, 2013

The Optimal Post is 7 Minutes

Understanding which Medium posts get the most attention

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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Dec 8, 2014

When is the best time to publish? Wrong question.

10 charts that show the real story behind publish…

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Pete Davies in Data Lab

Nov 21, 2013

Medium’s metric that matters: Total Time Reading

How we measure engagement

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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Nov 24, 2014

Introducing Charted

A new way to share data

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Jacob Kim in Data Lab

Aug 11, 2015

How We Use Data to Suggest Tags for Your Story

Here on Medium, we envision tags to be central in organizing and connecting…

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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Mar 2, 2016

Twitter Sundays, Facebook Wednesdays, and Reddit Fridays: When People Read on the Internet

The times of day when people read tend to follow consistent patterns each week. Here’s the typical ebb and flow of time spent reading on Medium.

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Mike Sall in Data Lab

I went a little crazy trying to choose Charted’s colors.

It was actually one of the hardest parts of building and designing it. Here were the general goals:

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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Mar 26, 2014

Quantifying Network Effects

How Medium expands reader engagement by 64%

Pete Davies in Data Lab

May 15, 2014

The Data Curious

Or the “Informed Skeptic”

In a 2012 HBR article, Shvetank Shah, Andrew Horne, and Jaime Capellá discuss the idea of the Informed Skeptic:

“Informed skeptics”—the employees best equipped to make good decisions—effectively balance…

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