Okay, here’s my blog post about messing around with Conde Nast titles, written in a casual, been-there-done-that style:
So, I was bored the other day and decided to play around with some data. You know, just for kicks. I got my hands on a list of Conde Nast titles – think Vogue, GQ, Wired, that kind of stuff – and thought, “Hey, let’s see what I can do with this.”
First, I just dumped all the titles into a simple text file. Nothing fancy, just a raw list. I wanted to see the whole shebang in one place. It was a pretty long list, let me tell you! Scrolling through it gave me a good sense of the sheer scale of their publications.
Playing with Python
Next, I figured I’d use a little Python to make things more interesting. I mean, why not? I’m no coding wizard, but I can cobble together a few lines.
- I opened the text file with Python.
- I read each line, treating each line as a separate title.
- Then I printed them out, but this time, I made sure to add a number in front of each one. You know, just to make it look a bit tidier.
That was pretty basic. Then I got a bit more ambitious. I thought, “What if I only wanted to see the titles that start with the letter ‘V’?” Back to the Python script I went!
I added a little “if” statement – that’s a basic programming thingy – to check if the title started with ‘V’. If it did, I printed it. If not, I just skipped it. It was kinda cool to see only the “V” titles pop up. There were more than I expected!
Thinking Bigger
Finally, I started thinking, “This could actually be useful.” Maybe I could use this to categorize the titles somehow. Like, group them by topic or something. That’s for another day, though. My brain was starting to hurt.
Overall, it was a fun little experiment. Nothing groundbreaking, but it was a good way to kill some time and dust off my rusty coding skills. Plus, now I have a slightly better understanding of the Conde Nast empire. Who knew they had so many publications?
