Weather Spark has the best charts for quickly understanding a new city's weather.

You don’t need to learn how to code. You just need to be able to tell a computer what to do in a way that it will respond, understand what it’s doing and how to optimize that, and fix it when it’s not working.

Behind every great data scientist... ... there is a greater data engineer.

Your goal is NOT to prove you're smart. It's to make problems go away.

I'm embarrassed to admit just how recently I realized that most terminals have tab autocompletion. So if you work in the terminal and haven't realized it yet, please know that you can start typing the first few letters of a folder/item name, hit tab, and it will likely fill in

BigQuery Console now offers dark mode 😎

“Why do you think I’m the best in the world? Because I never get bored with the basics." - Kobe Bryant

Great podcast with BURKOV, I need to get his books! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dat…

DuckDB and the future of databases | Hannes Mühleisen | Data Science Han... youtu.be/GvgbcWtHgVY?si… via YouTube

The journey to developing a high level of talent occurs through a similar general process regardless of the specific talent domain. It can be roughly divided into 3 stages, and we all know people who have fallen into various failure modes.

A new version of Forecasting: Principles and Practice has been released for Python! 🐍📈 otexts.com/fpppy/

Instant SQL is HERE 💥 #INSTANTSQL

Today, MotherDuck released InstantSQL and it will change how you work with databases. See query results *as you type* for instant feedback and more. Watch below as I edit a query and errors and results change as I add predicates. Note I can click INTO a cte !

MotherDuck Instant SQL demo 👇 cc MotherDuck Jacob Matson

Very cool!

I recently encountered an interesting SQL issue. Suppose you have a CTE that assigns random row numbers. You then join that CTE to itself, referencing the row numbers two times. They should match, right? Since they're coming from the same CTE. Wrong! At least in BigQuery and

"It is the gate which leads you to the state of mind, in which you live so close to your own heart that you no longer need a language. It is utterly ordinary. It is what is in you already. Your first, most primitive impulses are right, and will lead you to do the right thing, if

New DuckDB Blog Post: Maching Learning Prototyping with DuckDB and scikit-learn Have you incorporated DuckDB into any of your work with scikit-learn? If so, does it look like this blog post, or different? duckdb.org/2025/05/16/sci…

The most hard-hitting 2 sentences in all of talent development research:

Once you've got a good habit going, do everything you can to protect it.