This is not a drill!

DuckDB DuckCon will immediately follow Posit PBC conf in Seattle this August

Two back to back conferences with some of the most genuine, non-gimmicky, open source data communities out there

Save the date: DuckCon #5 will take place in Seattle on 2024-08-15.

For details and the registration link, see duckdb.org/2024/08/15/duc…

🔍 Are you a fan of causal inference? Check out this recent webinar hosted by Alexandre Andorra , featuring Nathaniel Forde, for a deep dive into using propensity scores to combat selection bias and much more.

👉Click to dive deeper into practical strategies: youtu.be/y9BeOr0AETw?si…

alright, just dropped SQLMesh into my mdsinabox project. dbt is still in there, but its running side-by-side.

quick summary of what i like / don't like them between the two

We're very happy to announce that NVIDIA and Polars will work together to bring GPU acceleration to Polars DataFrames! 🚀💯

pola.rs/posts/polars-o…

reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/c…

March Madness is the best branding lesson for data scientists

Prediction error? Just call your positive residuals “Cinderella stories”, negative residuals “upsets”

Voila! You don’t have a bad model but “exciting emerging narratives”

Interested in building a foundation of #causalinference methodology?

KTCI provides a roadmap to navigate the current causal research landscape and covers topics such as #gformula , inverse probability weighting & mediation analysis.

Register for KTCI: causalab.sph.harvard.edu/courses/

3 things Pete Soderling did at Data Council that every other conference must start doing immediately –

1/ Speaker office hours. Dedicated 45 min to chat instead of mobbing post-talk.

2/ Talk schedule in a Google doc. Always up to date, works everywhere.

3/ No vendor talks.

It’s us, the official airport of college basketball.

An upd report on our workshops for Ukraine series on #RStats , #Python & more. So far, we have raised >63k euro & the workshops have been attended by > 2900 ppl! 👇 you can find more info on how you can help & a detailed report.
All info on workshops: bit.ly/3wBeY4S 1/n

The python version of The {gt}/great_tables Packages just released nanoplots for tables! Loving the examples with polars data -- beautiful syntax and output

Check it out: posit-dev.github.io/great-tables/b…

Why does BigQuery allow dashes-but-not-underscores in project names and underscores-but-not-dashes in dataset names? WHY

If you care about checking model fit and like visualization, please consider signing up for our study!

Ultimately we hope to make it easier to specify and explore the space of visual model checks.

Shout out to the textbook I ordered that somehow got delayed in Mexico en route from Richmond to Chicago

Just out there spring break-ing and living its best life

DirectFile.IRS.gov is now live thanks to my Inflation Reduction Act.

This new tool will provide millions of Americans with an option to file their taxes for free.

Head over to the site today to see if you are eligible.

Fantastic episode on Apache Iceberg

Iceberg is one of the projects I’m currently most intrigued by before using

The fact that it can be explained so well in audio form speaks to the imminent logic and intuitiveness of its design (plus strong git parallels help!)

The smallest DuckDB SQL orchestrator on Earth.

yato is the smallest orchestrator on Earth to orchestrate SQL data transformations on top of DuckDB. You just give a folder with SQL queries and it guesses the DAG and runs the queries in the right order.

github.com/Bl3f/yato

I like when people ask for the 'best email' to connect as if one should reply to them with a list of emails and their corresponding success probabilities

PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY: turn off Twitter calls.

The feature was just enabled for everyone.

Cue spam, harassment & privacy risks.

Troublingly, the feature exposes your IP address in calls.

PICS: instructions on how to turn it off.

Via:tomsguide.com/computing/chan…