X feels increasingly unusable to me. The constant shouting about toxic issues from the group dominating the platform is drowning out everything else. It's hard to escape & becoming unbearable. Might be time to retreat to the Forest & enjoy my Forest Noise Amplifier instead.

Key chart to keep in mind as the Conservatives suffer their worst ever defeat: The Tories didn’t lose this election because they were too right wing on some issues or too left wing on others. They lost because voters of all stripes judged them to be incompetent and dishonest.

Today dbt announced column level lineage... but it's not open source and only available for paying cloud users. dbt is using SQLGlot (an open source SQL framework that my company @TobikoData maintains) to power this newly gated feature. SQLGlot's lineage wouldn't exist without the open source community so it's kind of a shame. But there's an open source alternative to dbt cloud... @SQLMesh, where column level lineage is free and open source for everyone to use. SQLMesh is backwards compatible with existing dbt projects, so you can gain all of its benefits without rewriting your project. Check out our blog post about lineage through SQLMesh's open source UI / IDE. tobikodata.com/sqlmesh-ui.ht… If you want to chat about how we can make data transformation better for everyone, we'd love to chat in our slack channel at tobikodata.com/slack.

When companies do analytics right, operators have an expressive and shared reality of how the company works, what's happening, and what matters. [Curated] dashboards are an important way this happens -- designed well, they are tools of education, persuasion, and control.

Real take: as an analyst, it's really hard to tell whether any given analysis is a one-off, or something that needs to be durable.

Was only a small part his life, but suddenly losing this beautiful boy today is heartbreaking.

Just watched the @MotifAnalytics demo video. Awesome 😎 🤩 motifanalytics.com/

Our recent TinyStories episode is an instant classic! x.com/SebastienBubeck/status…

I love Brett's video series where he gives us a forum to talk about how we're all a bit ashamed about how we work. For me it's my Jupyter notebooks, which look like a house after a massive rager, then someone asks to see the code I'm cleaning up like my parents are coming home.

This was a really amazing read nautil.us/how-eugenics-shape…

I teamed up with philosopher @sethlazar and AI impacts researcher @random_walker to investigate the "Statement on AI Risk" that proposes: "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority". tl;dr: We're not convinced.🧵 fast.ai/posts/2023-05-31-ext…

We spend so much time writing #SQL. Why don't our tools understand SQL? When you parse SQL you unlock: - Column Level Lineage - Automatic dependencies (no more {{ ref() }}) - Transpilation Check out this great post by @izeigerman tobikodata.com/semantic-unde…

Absolutely wild how quickly we went from “this model is going to change the world and/or kill everyone” to “wait we need to build five different proprietary hashmaps to query the model efficiently”

Yesterday, dbt announced contracts and versions. They're just additional YAML syntax further contributing to the pile of spaghetti code/configs. It puts even more burden on the end user without solving the underlying problems. tobikodata.com/the-false-pro…

I don't usually get this excited about webinars, but tomorrow @GergelyOrosz and I are doing one on how to control your infinitely-growing vendor spend, and...you're gonna want to be there. info.honeycomb.io/strategies…

Great summary of data contracts, formats and migrations of schema. Kafka centric but widely applicable developer.confluent.io/podca…

You cannot make this up... Musk currently STILL live testing to figure out how it is possible that when he posts a "." it gets 2-5x more views than when he posts something specific, like a tweet about something. Good luck to who will have to explain/debug this...

ChatGPT gives literally insane answers like this one and yet google bard gets incinerated for minor factual mistakes?

Everyone’s heard that ChatGPT grew to 1 million users in 5 days. But it’s also probably costing OpenAPI ~$100K PER DAY to run it. Let’s talk about the hidden costs of API-based business models…

Read my full post in Win With Data 🙂👇 winwithdata.io/p/the-sql-ide…