Data Science

Identifying Trending Topics for BuzzFeed News

How does BuzzFeed know what’s trending? On every page of BuzzFeedNews.com, you’re greeted with a big red circle labelled “Trending,” followed by a list of tags for stories that are, apparently, “trending.” One might assume that the editors at…

How We Personalized Tasty Tag Search Results

The Tasty app just celebrated its first birthday! There are many great things about the app, but there is definitely room for improvement.

For example, when searching for recipes via our tags, the results are ordered by the…

How We Tagged 14,000 BuzzFeed Quizzes Using K-Means Clustering

At BuzzFeed, we have lately been concerned with the quality of the metadata related to our Quizzes. In the interest of our users being able to discover our best content, we decided to redo the tagging system.

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Analyzing 10 Million Inauguration Emoji

During Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, we asked our readers to answer a series of…