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Visualization candy: the making of a realtime geo-dashboard
“The most efficient graphic constructions are those in which any question, whatever its type and level, can be answered in a single instant of perception, that is, in a single image.”- Jacques Bertin,...
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Food rules for startups: eight delicious ways to build a better company
At Thumbtack, we make food a priority. It’s amazing what eating does to bring people together. Our team feels like a big family, and this is in large part due to the fact that we share most of our...
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Know your latency: a simple hack using Graphite and Memcache
“You know,” said Arthur, “it’s at times like this, when I’m trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I’d listened to what...
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Welcome our newest engineer, Tommy
We’re excited that Tommy Saylor is joining the engineering team. When he’s not getting introspective in park-bench photographs, you can find him pondering webby buzzwords like HTML5 and CSS3 over on...
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How to improve A/B testing with Mixpanel
Introduction We enjoy using Mixpanel and enjoy A/B testing. In this post we show how to use Mixpanel’s API and our own open-sourced A/B testing statistics package to easily create A/B tests in...
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PyCon 2013 Coding Challenge Roundup
This year’s PyCon was again, extraordinary. Our heartfelt thanks go out to the entire community for such an amazing event. We especially enjoyed getting to know other engineers from all over the...
View ArticleSoMa Tech Talks – AngularJS
The following talks on AngularJS were from the September 26, 2013 SoMA Tech Talk event hosted at Thumbtack. Zach Snow – Data binding in AngularJS Chris Mueller – Chris Mueller – Migration Patterns from...
View ArticleEvan Miller – Understanding Statistics with Visualization
From the July 28, 2014 SoMa Tech Talk series. Abstract: Evan Miller will be speaking about visually appealing ways to “supercharge” traditional descriptive visualizations with inferential statistics....
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Eng Retreat in Tahoe: Robots and Desolation
Within engineering, we like to have consensus on decisions, especially those that have significant and lasting import. So before we left for a multi-day retreat in Tahoe, the engineeering team asked...
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A romance of a single dimension: linear git history in practice
“I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.” (Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland) A linear commit...
View ArticleSteve Howard – Understanding A/B Testing with Monte Carlo Simulation
From the July 28, 2014 SoMa Tech Talk series. Abstract: As anyone with A/B testing experience can tell you, the humble A/B test is loaded with complexity and pitfalls. Seemingly basic questions of...
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Welcome Mark Schaaf
Mark hiking the John Muir Trail We’re excited to introduce Mark Schaaf, the newest member of our team. Mark is joining us as Thumbtack’s VP of Engineering. He previously was a Senior Engineering...
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