Turn Everyday Tools Into AI Insights for 3x Company Clarity
A lot of founders have pinged me to ask what steps they would need to take to pull of what @jack has done restructuring @blocks this way. He answers it spot on 👇 "look at all the tools you're using. Look at all the information you're generating just by doing your work. Just putting that into an intelligence and being able to query it will give you an understanding of the company that is 2-3x more than you had before, ever." If you want to hear more, let me know and I can share my longer thoughts
Snowflake's Data Cloud Becomes Financial AI Gravity Well
Snowflake: Morningstar partnership, new CRO, rising AI workloads. Three signals, one direction. Enterprise data clouds aren't just storage. They're gravity wells for financial intelligence. The platform that controls data access controls the AI output.
Google's LangExtract: Free, Open‑Source Alternative Beats $100K Tools
RIP document extractors. Google just released LangExtract: Open-source. Free. Better than $100K enterprise tools. Here’s what it does: 🧵
Smooth Daily Revenue with a 7‑Day Rolling Average
SQL tip Daily revenue is noisy. One bad Monday skews the whole picture. A 7-day moving average smooths it out. ROWS BETWEEN 6 PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW tells SQL to look at today plus the 6 days before it. The result is a rolling...
Data Governance: A Messy Human-Centered Design Challenge
Data governance is fundamentally a design problem. And it's messy — because humans are messy. #DataGovernance #HumanCenteredDesign https://t.co/K5mFAET58s
30 Years Later, Inmon’s Data Warehouse Definition Still Holds
30+ years of proven patterns. Both still relevant. Inmon (1990): "A subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, non-volatile collection for management decision-making." https://www.ssp.sh/brain/data-warehouse
Generative BI Amplifies Your Foundation: Scale Intelligence, Not Chaos
Generative BI doesn’t accelerate everything. It compresses friction. But here’s the truth: It amplifies whatever it sits on top of. Strong foundation → intelligence at scale Weak foundation → chaos at scale That’s the inflection point. Article 2/4: https://t.co/E4BYVwebSq https://t.co/n2mvvezbl7
CIOs Should Explore Domo’s No‑Code AI Workflow Suite
Domo is best known for its BI capabilities, but CIOs should take a fresh look at its no-code workflows, robust data integration capabilities, and emerging AI Catalyst for developing AI agents #cio #ai https://t.co/Rgkexj9XJP
AI Will Replace Tableau and PowerBI with Instant Dashboards
AI is about to kill Tableau and PowerBI. Every dashboard can now be created in seconds with these Free Agents:
StreamNative Turns Kafka Company with Lakehouse Foundation
It's April 1st and I have an announcement: @streamnativeio is a @apachekafka company now. Yes, the Pulsar people. We took Apache Kafka 4.2 and gave it a lakehouse foundation. Topics = Iceberg tables. 10x cheaper. Zero code changes. https://t.co/Waj3eO8BoZ
Window Functions Rank without Collapsing Rows
SQL tip GROUP BY collapses your rows. Sometimes you need the ranking without losing the detail. That's what window functions do. PARTITION BY region restarts the ranking for each region. ORDER BY total_spend DESC puts the highest spender at rank 1. Every row stays intact....
CFOs Unlock Expansion via Clean Data and AI
I really suck at software demos, but hopefully that didn't diminish my new Revenue Intelligence feature I demo'd today. I may be able to methodically explain a P&L, but I realized today that I need training on software demos. Can...
AI Era Challenges Traditional Data Owner Role
Reserve your spot at Friday's Coffee with Digital Trailblazer. Our topic this week: Redefining Data Governance: Is the Data Owner Role Obsolete in the AI Era? https://t.co/i7NcU4uICI #AI https://t.co/9hxa4qwsuS
IRS Pilots Palantir AI to Pinpoint High‑value Audits
The IRS is testing Palantir's AI-powered analytics platform to identify "highest-value" audit and investigation targets, documents obtained by Wired reveal. The pilot program aims to cut through decades of fragmented legacy systems to surface taxpayers most likely to be committing...
Old‑School ML Turns Messy Support Chats Into Actionable Insights
Great detailed write-up by Mariia explaining how we built topic modelling that turns surprisingly messy support chats into structured & applicable actionable insights A fun reminder that "traditional" ML (e.g. >4 years old) is still very useful https://t.co/vo9KfPIg6q https://t.co/KFMGcHYHxN
Combine Multiple Aggregates in One Query Using CASE
SQL tip You're running three separate queries to get this. SELECT SUM(amount) FROM orders WHERE user_type = 'premium'; SELECT COUNT(*) FROM orders WHERE is_first_order = TRUE; SELECT SUM(amount) FROM orders; You can get all three in one. This pattern works across Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, BigQuery...
Data Stewards Must Be Domain Experts, Not Engineers
Data stewards don't need to be engineers. They need to be domain experts who can speak to data quality. #DataGovernance #DataSteward https://t.co/aQ7n0Kcc79
Stateless Semantic Search in BigQuery Simplifies Small Datasets
You have any giant, convoluted code or SQL logic to handle data values that might be similar? @JeffONelson did. But he shows off a new stateless semantic search in @googlecloud BigQuery that might be a lifesaver for small datasets. https://t.co/RU5q8SoJb4
Turn Spreadsheets Into Live AI Dashboards Instantly
Fastest way to build a business dashboard with AI in 2026: ↓ 1// Take any spreadsheet you already use to track business data. Revenue, leads, whatever you've been tracking manually. 2// Open Claude Code and tell it you want a live dashboard...
Lakebase Postgres Powers Agents with Human‑Speed Data Access
@JeffDean says it best, the problem in this new agentic era is "tools designed for human speed interaction". That's why we think agents love 𝗟𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀, it can branch, snapshot, scale up and down in a second, orders of magnitude...
FINRA’s “Burdensome” 2.5TB Data Tamed by AWS
@FINRA 's MMAT recent BK response/filling (March 27th) states an estimated 2.5 terabyte of trading data for #MMAT / #MMTLP. They called this BURDENSOME. At first glance perhaps this may look like a big, scary dataset... But lets take a closer...
BI Dashboards Are Dying; New Tools Are Arriving
RIP BI Dashboards. Tools like Tableau and PowerBI are about to become extinct. This is what's coming (and how to prepare):
Data Governance Essential for Trustworthy AI in Education
Trust In The #Digital Classroom: Why #Data Governance Must Guide #AI In Education by @geoffreyalef1 @Forbes Learn more: https://t.co/BKbfmT1JPq #EduTech #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalTransformation https://t.co/gLBIx5UmYg
Group by Time with pd.Grouper—no Extra Columns
Python tip You've been creating extra columns just to group by month. pd.Grouper does it in one step, inside the groupby. Same result. No extra column. It works for any time frequency -- weekly, quarterly, custom intervals -- without touching your data.
Generative BI Transforms Data, but Governance Prevents Chaos
Generative BI is not just an evolution of Business Intelligence. It’s a structural shift in how organizations think, interact, and decide with data. For years, BI promised democratization. In reality, many companies are still stuck between: 🔸 IT bottlenecks 🔸 Low data literacy 🔸 Rigid...
Pandas: From
Pandas is not optional anymore. It’s a core skill. Learn it. Use it. Master it.
Use Python Set Operators to Compare Lists Instantly
Python set operators analysts actually use You already know sets remove duplicates. But they also do something more useful. Compare lists without a single loop. | union -- combine two lists, no duplicates. i.e. all customers who bought in January OR February & intersection...
Predictive Intelligence in Snowflake Accelerates Growth Signal Detection
Missed our webinar? See how Crunchbase’s predictive intelligence in @Snowflake helps teams use high-signal data to spot growth, funding, and acquisition signals earlier — and act faster. Get the recording. 🎥: https://t.co/iYm0Ow88gF https://t.co/pJk1MeZSf9
SAP Acquires Reltio to Boost AI‑ready Data Foundation
SAP to Acquire Reltio: Make SAP and Non-SAP Data AI-Ready - https://t.co/RBGqnJN8mq >> Congrats. A key move to bolster the data foundation in SAP BDC. MDM and out-of-the-box integration are critical for the se non dee needed in th Agentic...
Data, Not Apps, Is the Real Competitive Moat
The observation that data becomes the moat while applications become the commodity feels right. Companies that still think their competitive advantage is their software stack rather than their data architecture may be solving the wrong problem. #AI https://t.co/YVEyjd2R1Y
Rollback Mistakes Instantly with Data Lake Time Travel
Accidentally deleted something? Roll back. Time travel in data lake table formats enables versioning of big data. Access any historical version through timestamps or version numbers. https://www.ssp.sh/brain/time-travel
Instant Unlimited Insights Free Teams From Dashboard Limits
We have entered the INFINITE UI ERA. Statlas MCP + Canon + Prophit Engineer = Endless Customization of Beautiful Personalized Reporting When you organize data effectively and combine it with Ai access you can generate any insight and visualization at warp speed. Problems...
Data Quality Failures Stem From Governance, Not Technology
No data quality standards. No QA. No pipeline best practices. That's not a tech problem — that's a governance problem. #DataGovernance #AI #DataStrategy https://t.co/POToYzHvFN
Altimate-Code: Open‑Source Terminal Editor Boosts Data Engineering
Altimate-code: a new open-source code editor for data engineering based on opencode. Easter comes early for every developer this year. Altimate-code is an OSS agentic code editor that works in the terminal, based on the admired OpenCode AI editor, with...
Data Migration Remains Underestimated and Perennially Challenging
"Data Migration Is Still Hard: Why the Industry Keeps Underestimating It", by Craig Mullins @craigmullins Every few years the IT industry rediscovers something that experienced practitioners already know: moving data is difficult. https://t.co/XDoOXASJRP
Solid Data Foundations Outperform Point‑Solution Automation
Before investing in smarter automation… Fix the data foundation. Why infrastructure beats point solutions → https://t.co/qWIUPgZhYD @MadaketHealth #PayerIT #HITSM
Dirty Data Beats Clean Warehouses in AI Era
For the last couple of decades businesses have been torturing their data into shape so it can earn a seat in a data warehouse. Clean it. Structure it. Label it. Only then does it get invited into the warehouse. And...
ELT Dominates: Load Fast, Transform In‑warehouse Layers
ETL (Extract, Transform, Load): Transform before loading into the warehouse ELT (Extract, Load, Transform): Load first, transform inside the warehouse The shift to ELT happened because cloud warehouses became cheap and powerful enough to do transformations. Why pay for a separate ETL server...
Built a Month’s Work in Just Two Days
A month of engineering work compressed into 2 days. That's what we shipped for World Sleep Day. We curated a team of 21 agents covering data engineering, biostatistics, public health, visual design, and even data governance and ethics in the...
Pentagon Chooses Palantir AI as Core Military System
Exclusive: Pentagon to adopt Palantir AI as core US military system, memo says. The apotheosis of mil civ fusion... https://t.co/Sp7uxEvsGv
Break Free From ERP: Use Third‑Party BI & AI
Organizations are giving up control by housing data solely within ERP systems. Regain power by leveraging third-party BI, AI, and workflow tools for in-house data management and functionality. #DataControl #ERP #TechStrategy https://t.co/1ForGtniYv
AI Sparks Data Governance Renaissance, Becomes Business Imperative
.@ActianCorp CEO Potter: AI driving a data governance renaissance https://t.co/4qlBrAGgYY Actian CEO Marc Potter said AI is proving to be a wakeup call on data governance as companies realize it's a business imperative. #AIF2026
Fuzzy Matching Beats LLMs for Cleaning Text Data
Free-form text data is everywhere in modern organizations. And it's usually dirty. Tomorrow, 39,000+ professionals will learn a powerful way to clean text data - fuzzy matching. In this age of AI, it's tempting to give free-form text data to an...
Master SQL Early: It Becomes Your Core Tool
I didn’t prioritize SQL early on, I thought it was easy and not that important. I was wrong. It became the language I used the most in data. Practice your queries.
New Tool Audits Data, Flags Inconsistencies for Equity Quality
You can now audit each number and flag any inconsistencies. We take data quality very seriously. I don't expect you to have to use this, but anything we can do to build the best data set in equity markets, consider it done....
Data Quality Soars 232%, Beating AI Hype
Data quality influence surged 232% this period. Not AI models. Not agents. Not LLMs. Data. Quality. The most boring discipline in the stack just became the fastest growing. The market is telling you something. Are you listening?
AI Fails without Clean, Documented, Owned Data
Most companies experimenting with AI are not struggling with models. They’re struggling with: – messy internal data – inconsistent schemas – no documentation – no data ownership You can’t plug OpenAI into chaos and expect magic. Data hygiene is important for AI.
Databricks' Genie Code Automates Data Science and Engineering
I shared my thoughts with @Infoworld on the new Genie Code from @Databricks https://t.co/54nQ6q4vAQ The goal is to highly automate data science and engineering tasks.
Master the 10 Essential Clustering Techniques
The 10 types of clustering that all data scientists need to know. Let's dive in:
Dagster: Asset‑First Orchestration Over Task‑Centric Pipelines
Dagster has a steep learning curve but a payoff. It is Vim for orchestration. The mental model shift: Dagster thinks in assets, not tasks. You define what data should exist, not what steps to run. The engine figures out dependencies and...