The Data Stack Show

31: How a 160 Year-Old Publisher is Using Data with Jenna Lemonias From the Atlantic

Episode Notes

On this week's episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Jenna Lemonias, director of data science at The Atlantic. The Atlantic, a publication that's been around since 1857, is adapting with the times and is implementing and emulating some of the data science practices seen at big tech companies. 

Highlights from this week's episode include:

• Jenna's background in astrophysics and how she pivoted to data science (2:14)
• Differences in dealing with data at a FinTech company and then at a publication (4:40)
• The relationship between analog and digital data at The Atlantic (9:22)
• How The Atlantic structures its data science team (11:44)
• The role data engineering plays (14:42)
• Using natural language processing and machine-generated metadata (17:37)
• The Atlantic's data stack (28:22)
• The kind of data that's important to The Atlantic (29:44)
• Big projects forthcoming for the data science team (37:13)

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