Medium Data Lab

Explorations with Medium data, from Medium’s Product Science team

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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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

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

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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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Nov 24, 2014

Introducing Charted

A new way to share data

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Mike Sall in Data Lab

Jun 30, 2014

Virality lasts 4 days

Most stories on Medium (and, frankly, most things on the web in general) see a similar traffic pattern: a spike on the day you publish and share it, and then the traffic tails off. But when you dig in, the stories that go viral see something different — their spikes last nearly a week, and…

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