Mike Godsey

@mikegodsey.bsky.social

Co-founder at https://summer.io, making data a pleasure :)

📈 DuckDB 1.4.0 is out! This is our first LTS release which comes with *one year of community support*. It also supports database encryption, the MERGE SQL statement and Iceberg writes. For more details, read the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/09/16/a...

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🎓 On September 4, we are hosting a new kind of meetup in London which will focus on the use of DuckDB in Science and Education! ⚡️ We still have some spots for lightning talks. If you're working with DuckDB in your research and/or classroom, consider sharing your story! 🔗 duckdb.org/events/2025/...

DuckDB Meetup on Science and Education in London

DuckDB is an in-process SQL database management system focused on analytical query processing. It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. DuckDB has no external dependencies. DuckDB has bin...

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🧵 Introducing a new series, NOAAstalgia: Picturing Our Past. Every other week, The NOAA Heritage Program will be sharing photos from NOAA's history. In this week's photo, a young woman launches a pilot weather balloon.

Historic black-and-white photo of a woman launching a weather balloon, featured in NOAA's "NOAAstalgia: Picturing Our Past" series.

You know what makes data a pleasure? Visualizations that are as easy on the eyes as they are easy to make. Introducing DuckPlot: the missing link between @duckdb.org and visualization! Built on top of @observablehq.com, open source and available to all. www.summer.io/blog/introdu...

Introducing DuckPlot: the missing link between DuckDB and visualization

We made DuckDB the heart of our charting suite and it turned out great. Now open sourced for all to enjoy.

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Today we're launching DuckLake, an integrated data lake and catalog format powered by SQL. DuckLake unlocks next-generation data warehousing where compute is local, consistency central, and storage scales till infinity. ⁠ducklake is an open standard and we implemented it in the "ducklake" extension.

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Today I read a bold claim that LLMs architected and trained to work with data will replace the dashboard. I do not agree. Seems much more likely they will make dashboards. Curious what other #data people think.