Monday, 23 September 2024

Cooking up recipe data for the Feast app

Any dish worth its salt needs the finest ingredients. In the case of the new Feast cooking app, we needed a structured recipe archive. This is how we rustled it up

Friday, 3 February 2023

Galaxies of the Guardian: the formation of an irregular org chart

‘Who does what and where?’ is an age-old question. We in Product & Engineering have tried to answer it with Galaxies, a data visualisation of interconnected people, teams, and streams

Monday, 12 July 2021

How we backfilled the Guardian’s in-house analytics tool to provide greater journalistic insight

The Guardian’s in-house content analytics tool, Ophan, has expanded from showing two weeks of data to two years. This post looks at one of the key changes that made it possible, from plumbing and CSV files to robust digestive systems

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Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Old the front page! The story of 1821 Mode

To celebrate the Guardian’s 200th anniversary we turned the theguardian.com network front into its 19th-century ancestor. Here’s how we transformed the hack into reality using a selection of tools, some styling and creative thinking