Can someone please explain WTH New Colorado charter school plans to install pepper-spraying drones for active shooter response | 9news.com www.9news.com/article/news...
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Meagan
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Data consultant working on data engineering, analytics, and data viz stuff. Mildly obsessed with my dog. Owner of an ultralight travel trailer. Taker of mediocre photos of nature things.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Google's Gemini AI convinced a man to attempt several terrorist attacks it said were to free a sentient AI. Then it convinced him to end his own life. The family of Jonathan Gavalas is now suing google. Full Video: youtu.be/sHlrbRVfOh0
New blog post: Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection datasavvy.me/2026/07/24/t...
Think Twice Before Enabling Fabric’s Inbound Network Protection - Data Savvy
Fabric inbound network protection involves two tenant-level controls: Private Link and Block Public Internet Access. But enabling them disables several features.
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US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years apnews.com/article/eeoc...
US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years
The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...
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NPR: ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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The goats on Mt. Blue Sky were in top form on Sunday. The one on the left has a terrible joke to tell you, while the crew on the right is posing perfectly for the cover of a 90s alt-rock album. #MtBlueSky #Colorado
It's Wednesday so we have a new #Wow2026 #PowerBI challenge. This week's challenge is from Santhana Lakshmi Ponnurasan and is all about sentence template tooltips! This challenge is fairly quick and beginner-friendly. Join us! @merrykerry.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social
This week's #Wow2026 for #PowerBI challenge is from Nabha Ahmed. We are visualizing affordability using a dumbbell chart. Give it a try! www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w26/
2026 Week 26 | Power BI: Visualizing Affordability Using a Dumbbell Chart – Workout Wednesday
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I feel like someone doesn't understand Gestalt principles and visual hierarchy.
You might personally choose not to use AI, but you might not have a choice as to whether your team or office uses it. If your organization is using AI to write alt text, always review it to make sure it's accurate and appropriate. AI won't necessarily understand how or why an image is being used.
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you. https://datasavvy.me/2026/06/22/crawl-walk-run-with-agentic-development-of-power-bi-assets/
#Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets - Data Savvy
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you.
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I took my dog on her first hike since she had her TPLO surgeries and arthritis injections. She did great, went about 3 miles. We'd been working up to the distance with walks around the neighborhood, but hadn't gone more than 2.5 miles. Here's Izzy posing for a photo about halfway through our hike.
It's not that you'll get your ballot and the USPS won't send it back to your state; it's that they won't let the state send you a ballot to begin with. Glad DC (et al.) are suing. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/p...
Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics
State election officials could soon face a stark choice: hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.
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It's Wednesday! This week's #Wow2026 for #PowerBI is an Euler diagram. Give it a try using your visual of choice! I used Deneb, but there are other possibilities. www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w23/ @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
That feeling when you finish a project and can finally close a bunch of applications and browser tabs.
This week's Workout Wednesday for Power BI is a wind vector map created using Vega-Lite in Deneb. Check it out and create your own version! www.workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2026-w22/ #Wow2026 #PowerBI @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social
Englewood, Colorado pauses AI-generated content after backlash on renewable energy video 🙃 www.westword.com/news/englewo...
Englewood pauses AI-generated content after backlash on renewable energy video
"Do you know what else prevents CO2 entering the atmosphere? Avoiding AI slop."
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If your Fabric notebook won't start, it's probably nothing you are doing. They are having issues, but they have identified a resolution. support.fabric.microsoft.com/support/
Please join this live meeting so you can watch this video. But first, watch us struggle to play the video from PowerPoint.
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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History of Rock & Roll. 2nd place goes to Wines, Vines & You.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last yr.What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.
Waymo suspends service in Atlanta after driverless vehicle gets stuck in flood waters | 11alive.com www.11alive.com/article/news...
Waymo suspends service in Atlanta after driverless vehicle gets stuck in flood waters
A photo of the Waymo driving directly into a massive flood zone was captured before it stalled out for roughly an hour.
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Meagan@mmarie.bsky.social · 4mo agoWaymo's School Bus Problem Exposes AI Training Limits | The Tech Buzz www.techbuzz.ai/articles/way...
Claude Code, to me just now: Apologies — I was making things up. 🙃
Plotly Studio just launched its agentic analytics workflow: ask questions in your preferred language, get live charts, reports, or Dash apps backed by transparent Python code. Read more about the launch. https://bit.ly/3PCemJE
Plotly Studio: The agentic workflow where your data is front and center
Plotly Studio's agentic analytics workflow is now available. Ask a question, get a live chart, report, or Dash app, all in a single session connected to your data.
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Data center moratorium gets unanimous approval in Denver, but that’s just the beginning denverite.com/2026/05/18/d...
Data center moratorium gets unanimous approval in Denver, but that’s just the beginning
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Big thanks to all participants who contributed to T-SQL Tuesday 198! This wrap-up post gathers the insights, stories, and expertise shared in one place. #tsql2sday https://datasavvy.me/2026/05/18/t-sql-tuesday-198-roundup-how-do-you-detect-data-changes/
T-SQL Tuesday #198 Roundup: How Do You Detect Data Changes? - Data Savvy
Thank you to everyone who participated in T-SQL Tuesday #198! When I wrote the invitation post, I intentionally kept the prompt broad because change detection looks different depending on your source system, your infrastructure, your data volumes, and what you need to do with the changes once you have them. The responses covered SQL Server
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