Trying to get up to speed on Databricks quickly for my new role. Anyone have a particular resource or learning path they really found useful when starting out? #databs

Microsoft: “We’re retiring Azure Data Studio, use Polyglot Notebooks”

Also Microsoft just now: “just kidding, we’re deprecating Polyglot Notebooks”

I guess if it doesn’t have “Copilot” in the name, you can kiss it goodbye…

What I’ve been up to lately — tackling an exciting, challenging, thrilling, exhausting new adventure.

August 6, 1992 looks like. Oakland vs Texas

Guess it's time for a new laptop then. Darn 😃

That sounds way more efficient than what I did. I actually struggled a lot with the size - working on a 10-year-old 16gb RAM thinkpad but with only like 3gb free on the hard drive.

Duckdb kept spilling to disk and then I'd get "out of memory" errors. At least I think that's what was happening

These are amazing. I'm guessing I missed then because I specified only "verb" part of speech when lemmatizing?

This was my first time using Github Copilot. I had a pretty good idea of the approach I wanted to take so I was mainly leaning on it for fleshing out the syntax. I found myself correcting quite a bit of the SQL it wrote, but overall I was very impressed!

Enabling broader adoption of XMLA-based tools and scenarios | Microsoft Fabric-blogg | Microsoft Fabric Starting on June 9, 2025, all Power BI and Fabric capacity SKUs will support XMLA read/write operations by default. This change is intended to assist customers using XMLA-based tools to create, edit, ...

Nice - as of this morning I am able connect to and query a model published in Pro capacity via XMLA in DAX Studio. Haven't been able to get it to work with Tabular Editor yet though...

support.fabric.microsoft.com/nb-no/blog/e...

The results:
• Tom Browning (present participle) vs. John, Michael, and Jarvis Brown (36 PA in the 1980s)
• Barret Browning vs. Dominic Brown (2 PA in 2012)
• Kelly Downs vs. Brian Downing (3 PA in 1992)
• Jace Fry vs. Max Fried (1 PA in 2019)

And that's it! Open to any challenges or corrections.

My process and tools:
• Retrosheet's full parsed play-by-play dataset (~15M records, ~200K games)
• DuckDb to load .csv and generate unique batter/pitcher name combos
• NLTK to apply verb lemmatization, keeping only the pairs with matching lemma
• Claude 3.5 + GH Copilot + vibes

A Redditor poses a fun baseball data challenge. I attempt to vibe-code my way to *an* answer ⬇ #dataBS

An Intake Form for Data Requests — Haystacks by Caitlin Hudon Our intake form is opinionated. Years of designing and carrying out analyses has taught me that the more context I have up-front, the better my analysis will be. So, our intake form is designed to gat...

My favorite that I’ve seen is the one @beeonaposy.bsky.social built and shared.

www.caitlinhudon.com/posts/2020/0... An Intake Form for Data Requests — Haystacks by Caitlin Hudon

A measure table called "Measures" - Phil Seamark on DAX I wrote a blog back in 2017 on how to better organise your measures in Power BI. One thing that bothered me at the time was I wasn’t able to give the measure table the one name I truly wanted. The per...

@itsnotaboutthecell.com looks like it goes way back!

dax.tips/2019/05/14/a...

Shame on me for using a janky workaround…but at the same time it’s worked for ~5 years this way with no issues. I feel like I might’ve learned it from BIElite back in the day.

And no warning that I saw (although I very well could have missed something)

How my Monday started:

“ Measures” (leading space) is evidently no longer a supported table name, as of 2.140.1078.0, preventing us from opening models in Desktop.

Hey @powerbi.bsky.social, with the Power BI community site in “read-only” mode today, is there an alternative place for us to submit bugs/issues in the meantime? #PowerBI

Cc @jaypowerbi.bsky.social

Folks who manage large #PowerBI models with incremental refresh, how do you handle “static” start dates for archived data (ex keep everything 2016-present)?

Set rolling window periods to some arbitrarily large value? Manually increment rolling window periods each year? Some other way?

The release cadence seems to have slowed considerably. Unsure if that’s related

I agree, but also “not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”.

Aren’t there some things that we should do just because they make sense, even if we have no idea how or whether we’ll be able to directly measure their impact?

Thanks for highlighting this book. Binge-listened (read?) it over the long weekend, inspired by this post. Really eye-opening perspective.

A picture of a Roman column, showing layers of exposed brick and stucco

A lot of Roman era columns were as well, I think.

Took this photo in Pompeii last month.

Not natively, but there is a “workaround”. Although evidently it’s been having some issues as of late.

bsky.app/profile/josh...

"In the last analysis, every profession is a conspiracy against the laity"

- George Bernard Shaw

The common "solution" is just to save a copy of the dashboard as a pdf each month lol. Full circle

There are several of us here!

Excited about the revival of a community here. Data Twitter was the tech mentor I was missing during my career change.

Can't help feeling tho that the dissolution was only partially due to the changes over there...feels like there was also a massive (downward) vibe shift in the field that coincided

Been fine-tuning an Excel model over the last few years to compare health insurance options for my wife and me - breakeven points, cost splits, the works. Had Claude double-check my math this year - it recreated everything as a working React component in about 35 seconds

The shop I work in is hiring a data person (Power BI, Tableau, etc), if anyone is searching for a (US-based) jerb. Management is good and the gig is fully remote. Let me know if you have any questions.

https://jobs.uwm.edu/postings/39578

#PowerBI #Tableau #SQL #GetFedihired