I'm really excited to share some of the research I've been in doing on Data Agents - and no place better to do it then in SF. Join me to learn how to build your own data agent at 1pm on June 2nd! Register here: thedive.motherduck.com
Jacob Matson
@matsonj.com
excel lover & data enthusiast. writing at dataduel.co working at motherduck.com
me to the new OSS LLMs: "please don't spiral thinking forever about how hard this problem is" them: "you know i think i will just spiral" pic related
just shipped mviz 1.5 - now with mermaid support! add it your claude code with `npx add-skill matsonj/mviz` or embedded it in your app with `npm i mviz` github.com/matsonj/mviz
GitHub - matsonj/mviz: A chart & report builder designed for use by AI.
A chart & report builder designed for use by AI. Contribute to matsonj/mviz development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A gift for my Bsky followers- a chart and report builder designed for usage with AI. Install for Claude Code (or your favorite IDE): ‘npx add-skill matsonj/mviz’ github.com/matsonj/mviz
GitHub - matsonj/mviz: placeholder
placeholder. Contribute to matsonj/mviz development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Checking in on my AI workflow www.dataduel.co/my-explorato...
My exploratory AI workflow – DataDuel.co
I’ve been spending time doing some work with AI – and this blog is just a “check-in” journal on what has been working for me. This blog will begin with “Idea Honing” (mini PRD) and then move to an ite...
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Finally implemented nfl tiebreakers in mdsinabox.com - so now teams have a much better outlook on playoff seeding. To wit: the Atlanta falcons mdsinabox.com/nfl/teams/At...
I've been screwing around with evals - here is my first one! I know many of you are AI haters but its here and its real. For this case I've looking at speed, accuracy and cost for solving hard NYT connections. GitHub repo: github.com/matsonj/eval...
🚀 We've just open-sourced Embedding Atlas – a tool for exploring large embedding spaces through rich, interactive visualizations 📊.
Something challenging about @duckdb.org : its a bit of a funhouse - many doors to enter that get you to the same place. I wrote about one of those doors - Postgres! motherduck.com/blog/postgre...
PostgreSQL and Ducks: The Perfect Analytical Pairing - MotherDuck Blog
Learn how to integrate PostgreSQL with DuckDB and MotherDuck for faster analytics. Compare DuckDB Postgres Extension, pg_duckdb, and CDC approaches with practical examples and best practices for each ...
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One of the notions we think about quite a bit at @motherduck.com is "handling data before it becomes big" and I think this example from @tigrisdata.com really nails it. The trick here is parsing the JSON on insert so its really quick to query it.
Tigris Data@tigrisdata.com · last yr.AI scrapers can overload your app before you even see them coming. Anubis uses proof-of-work + honeypots to fight back—paired with @motherduck.com + @tigrisdata.com for real-time pattern detection at scale. 🧠 Detect bots. 🚫 Stop downtime. 🔗 www.tigrisdata.com/blog/anubis/
DuckDB v1.3.0 “Ossivalis” is out and it packs a ton of new features, fixes and optimizations. See the announcement blog post: duckdb.org/2025/05/21/a...
WAKE UP EVERYONE ITS DUCKDB RELEASE DAY github.com/duckdb/duckd...
Release DuckDB 1.3.0 "Ossivalis" · duckdb/duckdb
This release of DuckDB is named "Ossivalis" after Bucephala Ossivalis, an ancestor of the Goldeneye duck that lived Millions of years ago. Please also refer to the announcement blog post: https://d...
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vibe coded my way through adding tiebreaker logic to mdsinabox.com/nba today, and of course discovered there is some ambiguity in the tiebreaker rules as described on nba dot com. it is also potentially non-deterministic if there is a tie for the 6/8/10 seed
NBA Sim
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next week @matsonj.com and @mehdio.com and I are talking practical workflows for using LLMs in data roles Wednesday, April 9 / 12:30 PM EDT sign up 👇 lu.ma/gmsg4lcl
Practical Uses for AI in Your Data Workflows · Zoom · Luma
Join us for a live discussion where professionals from across the data landscape share how they're using AI in their everyday work. In this practical session,…
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DuckDB got a local UI. Thanks to our friends at MotherDuck, you can now interact with your DuckDB database through an interactive notebook, running on localhost. Read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/03/12/d...
just discovered my daughter chatting with her friends like this in gsheets
Devin Gaffney@devingaffney.com · last yr.If u zoom into it
oh now that the referer issue is fixed, i wrote a little bit about my thoughts on the "modern data stack" and how spreadsheets fit in... www.dataduel.co/if-spreadshe...
If spreadsheets are eternal, are BI tools transitory? – DataDuel.co
The article discusses the evolution of business intelligence (BI) tools, questioning their longevity compared to the enduring nature of spreadsheets. It highlights how spreadsheets facilitated decisio...
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"Behind every large enterprise data workflow is an SFTP server with CSVs sitting on it (if you are lucky, its object storage and a compressed format, but its the same thing)."
Jacob Matson@matsonj.com · last yr.been pondering what the future of data & analytics looks like, so I spent some time writing about it. www.dataduel.co/if-spreadshe...
been pondering what the future of data & analytics looks like, so I spent some time writing about it. www.dataduel.co/if-spreadshe...
If spreadsheets are eternal, are BI tools transitory? – DataDuel.co
The article discusses the evolution of business intelligence (BI) tools, questioning their longevity compared to the enduring nature of spreadsheets. It highlights how spreadsheets facilitated decisio...
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github.com/EnhancedJax/... saw this on terminaltrove the other day; looks cool
working on improving the login experience for @duckdb-gsheets.com no more pasting tokens into the terminal
Hello, friends of #NBASky (and all the recent new arrivals). Quick 🧵. It’s been really cool/gratifying to see so many NBA fans/media gather here. I feel like we’ve reached critical mass, to the point where I barely check the other site anymore, and hardly miss it. (cont.)
Today in “cursed workflows”, you can connect to rest end points with Power BI which means you can serve DuckDB requests to it, no odbc required!
