Standing room only for Wes McKinney’s talk at Data Council this morning!

Dominik showcasing the power of MotherDuck's hybrid mode w/ Mosaic!

Imagine getting near-instant interactivity in your analytics apps for free. Entirely new UX patterns in data analysis are made possible

We have another Bay Area Tech Economics seminar on Thursday March 28, featuring Karin Kimbrough, Chief Economist at LinkedIn. It's at 6:30pm on the USF campus. More details (and signup form) at our seminar website: docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Me when I start my new software engineering job

On a rainy day in December I met up with Yuzheng Sun from the Pragmatic Data Scientists channel to talk about:

- motivating EDA from a business value standpoint
- event sequences as information-rich, high dimensional data
- inventing new things vs using things off-the-shelf

🎉 Nixtla is growing! 🎉

We’re excited to share that 5️⃣ new members have joined our team to enhance our capabilities in time series research and deployment.

Their diverse skills, backgrounds, and fresh perspectives are crucial as we aim to expand the reach and functionality of…

I’d imagine we’ll see longer and more complex system prompts over time, especially as we delegate more decision making and scope to LLMs. It’s got to be quite the challenge to generate and evaluate them. Feels similar to writing the constitution for a country.

A mini poll for people who use Jupyter or Colab notebooks.

Do you use widgets on a regular basis? If you answer yes, it would be great if you could mention which widgets you use most frequently.

For some ridiculous reason, to which, however, I've no desire to be disloyal,
Some person in authority, I don't know who, very likely the Astronomer Royal,
Has decided that, although for such a beastly month as February, twenty-eight days as a general rule are plenty,
One year…

No one tells you this, but the chili powders available in most grocery stores are wholly inadequate for most use cases.

Dataviz is hierarchical. Unfortunately, our data tools don't always play along. 🧵

One of the best Bay Area health metrics out there. Goes up when:

- people move to the Bay Area
- people live close to transit
- people go out and do fun things outside
- people don't use their cars to go out

I credit at least 50% of my lifelong excitement and interest in math to playing this game when I was about 12.