Members from the FMG Data Engineering and Analytics teams will be attending PyGotham 2018! Stay tuned once the conference starts on Oct 5 for our thoughts on the talks and hubbub.

The day has come where Josh Laurito, OG founder of the FMG data blog, lover of eggs and logs, is leaving us. To say goodbye, former and present Gawker/GMG/FMG employees have come together to share their memories of Josh, get a few last jabs in, and send him off in true Kinja fashion.

We love A/B testing here at Fusion Media Group. We’ve come a long way since 2015, when we first started testing: in the past three years we’ve grown the testing culture from none at all to A/B tests being a key and necessary part of the product development process. Experiments allow us to measure and be confident in…

Here at Fusion Media Group, we have fully embraced Doubleclick For Publisher’s custom key-values - we use them in part as they are intended: for improved targeting and forecasting around things DFP doesn’t track natively (ex: article topics, how many pages a user has seen so far in their visit.) But we’ve also been…

Around the end of the year, the data team gets a lot of requests from the editorial teams to pull which posts had the highest traffic that year. Usually, they’re looking to figure out which of the posts they wrote that year did the best - but there are always posts that were published in previous years that gain…

Do you ever find yourself using the same formula, day in and day out, and think, “Wow, I wish Excel just had a function for this.” Turns out, you can create your own functions in Excel to do whatever you want (for the most part)!

Excel’s built-in conditional formatting options are great for a lot of use cases, but what if we wanted to highlight a whole row when one of it’s cells meets some criteria, instead of just highlighting the one cell? Or what if we want to highlight a cell only if the cell is greater than 10 AND the cell in column A…