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Ever wondered how The Washington Post balances access and subscriptions? In our latest blog post, @janithW dives into how we use reinforcement learning and smart metering to target paywalls intelligently—optimizing reader experience and business goals.
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🚀 Transforming the design-dev workflow at The Washington Post! The latest Figma blog dives into how we've reimagined component delivery from traditional methods to a collaborative sprint that's aligning teams better than ever. #designsystems #figma
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On our blog, @dianesaysword and @lennybronner from our Elections Insights team give a deep dive into our Voterflow models which were used to analyze patterns in voter behavior between the 2016 and 2024 primary election cycles in Iowa and NH.
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In our latest engineering blog post, “Rethinking Content Insights at The Post”, @jasonlangsner explains how our Data + AI team powers self-service analytics for @washingtonpost.
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Hi friends!
Y’all may have seen by now, but if you didn’t — I am heading over to join the crew at @politico! I’ll miss the folks at @WapoEngineering but I am excited for what’s next!
Watch this space — more to come.
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Hi friends! I'm hiring a data engineer to work on The Washington Post's live election model.
Feel free to DM me if you have any questions!!
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come build high-visibility election models ahead of the 2024 presidential with folks like @lennybronner @DaraGold5 @jchaskell2 @dylfreed @zubakskees! 📈🚀
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The Post's first-ever Accessibility Engineer @hsforeman shares insight on his new role:
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📢 2023 @arcxp internship applications are open! Whether you're interested in engineering, product, project management, sales or marketing, there's an opening for you. The internship is open to everyone from college freshmen to transitioning professionals. washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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Two days after the election, and still little change. The Senate races in NV and AZ remain tossups, but the model continues to think that Democrats have a slight edge.
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you vs. the model she tells you not to worry about
ALT A screenshot of The Washington Post's election night model for the North Carolina Senate race
ALT Paul the Octopus, an octopus that predicted 12 out of 14 international football matches correctly in 2008 to 2010
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it's election day! we'll be running our (open-sourced) model on Senate, House, and governor races to provide context to raw vote counts.
this model generates estimates for where the vote count will *actually* end up by the end of the election
ALT A screenshot of The Washington Post's live election night model for the Georgia Senate race.
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In the works @WapoEngineering: a general text matching tool to help join columns of data when the names don't exactly match. We're using it for election precinct matching🗳️
ALT A screenshot of a spreadsheet-like interface showing the process of matching precincts by name. A logo in the top-left reads "Crosswalker."
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happy election week from @WapoEngineering 🫶
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The Washington Post’s lil in-app TikTok-like video scroll is my favorite new piece of journalism technology of the year. It’s such a smart and cool way to compel readers to actually engage with the app instead of TikTok or Instagram.
Our personalization (data science) team is still accepting priority applicants for our 2023 summer internship program. The deadline is 11:59 p.m. ET on Oct. 31. No other teams are accepting priority applicants, but you should rank your full preferences. news-engineering.notion.site…