At Mode, we have an interview question we often use during phone screens for engineering candidates which is “What is an example of a library you think is really well-written"? Here are our answers.

Josh Ferguson, Cofounder and Chief Architect at Mode, recently gave a talk at Data Council introducing our framework for building data applications called Switch.

At Mode, we make decisions while staying true to our company values. We asked few of our engineers and engineering leaders about the values they like most, and wanted to share their examples.

A data model defines how an organization's various data sources are organized, related, and accessed. As data sources are added and complexity grows, the data model makes a big impact on the productivity and efficiency of anyone in the company that works with data.

Today, we're announcing the newly-designed Mode developer site. The new site contains extensive documentation of commonly used API endpoints, plus a few new ones. We've also added an API cookbook give you templates for common tasks. These new resources make it easier than ever before to build with Mode.

As analysts and data scientists, we have to make our work compelling and persuasive to change the way our organizations think. It can be easy to assume that our well-constructed graphs and tables are plenty convincing on their own. But this ignores a fundamental fact of analytics: it's still a human making the decision behind those numbers, and that person is rarely as quantitatively inclined as we are. Persuading this audience takes a skill that isn't discussed enough in the data science community: empathy.