Here a post for my next five years of social media history. Just in case I were to have the idea of going to the United States under Mr Orange's 🟠 administration. 🇪🇺

Insight Clips for your standalone data story telling A POC with #LookerStudio and Gemini 3 Pro All the story in the youtube description. Very fun to build 😛 youtu.be/nED4GODxQWY

Like every year at this time, cats are one step ahead. While humans are getting ready for Christmas, their cats are already kicking off the festivities. 📦 Next step: the gifts ribbons and the ornaments on the Christmas tree.🎁🎄

Started watching ⭐️Pluribus⭐️ last night After Breaking Bad & BCC, V. Gilligan has delivered again. A huge shock: an intriguing plot, humor, splendid direction with superb long takes, R. Seehorn acting 😍... For an obvious allegory for our constant hallucination in the face of the world we live in

New Shape Elements in #LookerStudio, noticed this morning, similar to Google Slide ones, including callouts.

After ytd's discussion with Myriam, I felt like creating my own version of the post's #dataviz. I'm not a fan of mirrored line charts 🤨🪞🤨 & that's putting it mildly. I understand why that choice is often made, so I implemented a toggle. 😁 Here the full story: www.linkedin.com/posts/mehdi-...

The first speaker names for @superweek.bsky.social 2026 have been announced on the official website. And my first reaction can be summed up in three words: "Ho La La" It’s shaping up to be an amazing edition! See for yourself! superweek.hu

Always surprised that SaaS services like G Cloud, A iCloud, or OpenAI don't make it easier to reduce the n of invoices through prepaid invoiced credits, or through annual billable contract. I don't want to go through intermediaries for that. "Here 50 euros and stop the micro invoicing"

🔵 Un grand nombre de médias américains et internationaux, dont le New York Times, Fox News, AP et l'AFP, ont refusé de signer un document du Pentagone établissant des mesures restrictives pour la presse, au risque d'y perdre leur accréditation. Le communiqué de l'AFP ⬇️

You can still join many good-looking folks and me for the virtual #PiwikPro Day next Tuesday. I will show you my free tool that turns Admins from Piwik Amateur to Piwik Pro! piwik.pro/piwik-pro-da...

My 11yo son came home from the school library with Orwell's Animal Farm. I told him every kid his age in USA should read it now. He asked why but I didn't want to spoil it. Later, he came back to me & said "I get it. The pig builds a dictatorship". Yeah, that’s what the pig is doing, I answered.

Lego decided to target the geeky clients in October. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Guilty! with two charges...pop culture and retro gaming.

Amazing graphic and interactive masterpiece on Reuters in the service of storytelling in investigative journalism. Kudos to Simon Scarr, Daniel Flynn & Rebecca Pazos www.reuters.com/graphics/SOU...

Found in a school-hosted yard sale in the neighborhood for 5 euros. Deal! (of course)

Discovering the channel performance reporting for Google Ads Performance Max A lot to say about this pseudo-sankey diagram, but because my opinion is completely biased when it comes to talking about the G Ads, I preferred to let Alan Grant to comment on these metrics moving in herds... #dataviz

#LookerStudio Release - September 11, 2025 ➡️ Deprecation & sunset of LS 🪦 Explorer ➡️ Links & images disabled for viewer-credential data sources ➡️ Pro feature: Scheduled reports increased to 200 ➡️ Modernized treemap chart ➡️ Partner connector additions The details www.linkedin.com/posts/mehdi-...

How about we talk about dashboarding & reporting in an analytics world where generative AI is everywhere? That's what I tried to do in this article: observations, reflections, requirements, and directions for solutions in one of the analytics disciplines. www.linkedin.com/pulse/envisi...

The European Commission has announced a fine of €2.95 billion against Google, despite threats from 🟠🏌 The EU executive deemed that the American tech giant had abused its dominant position in the online advertising sector. 🍿 www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

#DataViz in Digital Analytics fields Just published my first post on LinkedIn Pulse, stepping back from day-to-day operations in tools to share some thoughts Envisioning a future where dashboards withstand the test of Generative AI in Digital Analytics www.linkedin.com/pulse/envisi...

Miam miam. I need this, in addition to the Game Boy and the Gizmo planed for October. #GeekyLegoRush www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-lego-... brickset.com/article/1245...!

Lost time finding out that Reddit has the worst account & profile management imaginable. What a piece of crap.

August 2025 releases of Looker Studio You took some time off last weeks & didn’t keep up with the new Looker Studio features that were released? Here's a short summary! Small but welcomed additions to fine-tune your data viz. More details www.linkedin.com/posts/mehdi-... #LookerStudio #dataviz

Hack for #LookerStudio - HTML formatting & styles in text boxes ➡️ Prepare your HTML code outside of Looker Studio, then copy it in your Looker Studio text box for testing. Most of HTML tags are taken in account for rendering. More details www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Today was back to work, full of energy, new ideas, and fresh motivation 💪, while also bringing a new record 🎶 to the office. During my vacation, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that my favorite Ben Harper album had finally been reissued on vinyl: Diamonds on the Inside. So good!

After all the previous bad episodes about Microsoft... Now, we learn that the CEO & the leadership team of GitHub, acquired by MS in 2018, is leaving the ship. GitHub will now be directly controlled by Microsoft through the CoreAI division. Obviously sad for Github. www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

Je n’achète plus rien en points Relay depuis un moment…mais grâce à cet article, j’ai découvert de nouvelles marques à boycotter. Halluciné par l’ampleur du réseau. …plus un centime de ma poche.

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#LookerStudio Release - July 24 2025 - Perf. optim. for BigQuery data sources - Highlight charts that apply your filter - Add report description - Alt. text for static images - A4 canvas sizes - Looker connector enhancements & new partner connectors All the details www.linkedin.com/posts/mehdi-...

#LookerStudio Pro – Conversational Analytics & Code Interpreter When Python and its libraries meet Gemini & Looker for data exploration and analysis. I've played with the features in preview for multiples generation prompted with natural language 🗣️🤖. www.withlookerstudio.com/blog/feature...

Current read is probably my best of the year. It’s impressively rich in info, examples, perspectives, & analysis. The insights seem obvious yet so powerful. 🤯The History of info networks offers so many answers for both the present and the future when explored by thinkers like YN Harari. A must-read.

Complètement validé après moins de 20h de jeu. Je me délecterai de la suite de l'histoire et je me surprendrai encore et toujours à passer sur l'écran d'accueil juste pour lancer les premières notes de piano du thème d'Alicia. @sandfallgames.bsky.social 🫶🏻 Merci www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FIM...

Just-for-fun reports This #LookerStudio blog category includes now 9 shared #dataviz. In retrospect, I realize how eclectic the topics & inspirations are. It goes in all directions & I still love finding tricks for tiny elements that nobody will notice. www.withlookerstudio.com/blog/just-fo...

#DataViz & GenAI: Article Sneak peek Asking myself a lot of questions lately about the future of analytics & data viz where AI is prominent. I’ll share thoughts on our role as digital analysts facing challenges around reporting & the underlying tech implications. Here a little meme as a teaser 😉

Another company throwing itself off the cliff hoping that Gen AI will somehow catch it

How can one be proud of consuming so many resources just for marketing, as an SEO SaaS (whom I won’t name and don’t even dare ask how often their index refreshes)? Prompt, baby, prompt?

😮 Just discovered this interview of Meredith Whittaker about agentic / Gen AI and the related security and privacy implications. Brilliantly explained. youtu.be/AyH7zoP-JOg?...

Oh my God, it's staring at me!🐊 For the moment, I need to move slowly & access to the country filter and select France to push it out with its Overviews and AI mode parents.

Back to Data Viz basics with #LookerStudio How to transform a Pie Chart to an advisable Bar Chart A step-by-step tuto to create a clearer, easy-to-read chart, whatever the evolution of each dimension value's share...with a bit of interactivity as a bonus. www.withlookerstudio.com/blog/data-vi...

#LookerStudio - Just-for-fun shared report Top-Selling Products & Ranking Volatility A blog post is in preparation to give more details about this new report. Meanwhile, it is available here to play with it. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/48...

I stumbled upon the telephone from my childhood (the Socotel S63...I discovered its name today) at a garage sale and couldn't resist buying it. Just the sound of the rotary dial when dialing a number is a real trip down memory lane. It will have a nice spot in my office :)

🐊 Among many others, another example of crocodile chart on Google Search Console. A Looker Studio blog without proactive SEO monitoring, facing AI Overviews, the April 20th update and AI mode. Happy to know that my contents are good for impressions.

Very good marketing from Adobe about analytics product for brand authority and AI Search. But in terms of feasibility, this seems far beyond current technical capabilities. The statistics would be less reliable and accurate as Alexa was back in the day. business.adobe.com/products/llm...

Piwik PRO announces the end of its FREE plan in December, replaced by a supersized SME Business plan for 35 euros / month A good move in my opinion. Here my thoughts: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Arf...WhatsApp with ads, soon. The only Meta service I use... for family and friends discussions...

Cassius, Sebastian and Kavinsky opening for Daft Punk in 2007 (Alive 2007 in the Roman Arena of Nîmes)

AI in #Analytics Tools Nice example of insights from Boards "Reveal" Feature - inside Piano Analytics Suite A funnel is the kind of use case that provides by itself a lot of sets of information for AI. without any meta data of context. The intelligence is working beyond the visible data set.

#LookerStudio Pro As part of the Trusted Tester features, The Code Interpreter for Conversational Analytics is available. It is designed to transform your prompt requests into #Python code & delivers analysis/viz. Here the details & my speculations 🔮. www.linkedin.com/posts/mehdi-...

New generally available feature on #PianoAnalytics 🎹 Piano Analytics users can now enable 🔃 auto-refresh on their Boards from Workspaces for an up-to-date data display, refreshed every 15 min. So, your Board can become a standalone data wall in one click.

Here it is, it's arrived. Four days early and just before the weekend 😁 Can't wait to find out! Clair Obscur Expedition 33 - by 🇫🇷 Sandfall Interactive

When the first reflex of an Ads agency - freshly hired by one of your clients - is to prefix the Google Ads account name with their own name, you're really glad they don't have access to GTM. Apparently, there are still agencies out there that mindlessly mark their clients territory.