BLOG ALERT! www.arcticdba.se/posts/tooth-... Sugar went from luxury to ubiquitous poison before we understood what it was doing to us. We're doing the exact same thing with AI, adding it to everything without genuine use cases while it erodes literacy and critical thinking. #AI #Literacy

I look forward to hiring a Chief AI Officer whose job will be to just tell anyone who suggests using AI for anything to shut the fuck up.

Budapest BI Forum was so much fun 😊. Full day workshop with @arcticdba.se and a session about Power BI core visuals ❤️ #BudapestBIForum #PowerBI www.linkedin.com/posts/valeri...

BLOG ALERT! www.arcticdba.se/posts/simpli... The 'Angel's Cocktail' story oversimplifies. Real mechanisms of engagement are far richer - learn how attention, memory, and cognitive tension actually work together to become a better speaker #Speaking #Data #Community #Storytelling

BLOG ALERT! www.arcticdba.se/posts/speaki... I'm going to the Budapest BI Forum, where I will deliver an awesome workshop together with Valerie Junk, and debut a new session! #Speaking #Data #MicrosoftFabric #Community

BLOG ALERT! www.arcticdba.se/posts/resurr... With AI and social media amplifying misinformation, data literacy is critical. I'm revamping "The Untruthful Art" with new examples, and I'm creating "Invisible Insights." Read more! #Speaking #Data #DataLiteracy #Community

BLOG ALERT! www.arcticdba.se/posts/settin... How do YOU open your presentations? #PresentationSkills #Speaking #Data #Community

Power BI, the low-code tool 🤡🫣🤭

Glorious! @effinbirds.com on LinkedIn of all places. And it's perfect. The level of superficial bollucks interspaced with pure unadulterated "f'ck this shit" makes it much more bearable and entertaining. Highly recommended.

Claude has now failed miserably for the last few hours to help me deal with what most likely is a fairly simple task in Azure Devops pipelines. The so-called "AI" is not coming for our jobs anytime soon.

For anyone considering taking the trains in Sweden: don't. I've had the misfortune of having to endure multiple train rides this year, and all of them have been between 20 minutes and 2 hours late. Currently standing still somewhere on the track after another "electrical issue".

An absolutely amazing piece of writing that summarizes my view on "AI" very well. I am not against machine learning - quite the opposite - but treat it like the tool it is and do not try to use it for everything under the sun, all while saying it will be the panacea for everything conceivable.

Great talk about social engineering

Many ask themselves, «Why would I use a semantic layer? How to build one?». But a better question is: How many times have you implemented the same revenue calculation differently across your company's dashboards, reports, and apps? This is why semantic layers exist.

I have a love/hate relationship with Rode. Excellent hardware, absolutely dogshit software, and the only thing the "support" says is to send in the device - which, as you might expect, will do NOTHING for said useless and buggy software.

This is the kind of advert that would get me to buy things.

mssql-python vs pyodbc: Benchmarking SQL Server Performance - devblogs.microsoft.com/python/mssql... A pretty big rewrite, actually

Scrolling past the 75,676th consecutive AI related post on LinkedIn.

Godspeed, Captain James A. Lovell Jr. , USN Thank you for your contributions. Blue skies and tailwinds.

I am just so tired of constant generative AI bullshit: the upstream exploitation, the flawed output, the downstream harms. All of it about money and power. Day in, day out. Maybe one good use case for every 10 bad ones. (I’m on annual leave for three weeks from Friday; it cannot come fast enough.)

Absolutely fantastic tools - in fact, I can’t really see how anyone could run an event without them.

Jiji was three weeks shy of nine years old - every one of those years was a struggle with her health. We never thought she would live as long as she did. Today it was time to let her go. Today we buried our lovely black cat. 2/2

Empty rooms, empty spaces. No more cuddles, no more playing, no more stretching out in the sun. The silence is deafening. But it also means no more pain, no more uncertainty, no more fear of what tomorrow might bring. 1/2

Pastries were had, and a *lot* of work got done! I haven't been this excited for a workshop in years! You do NOT want to miss it, and as @valeriejunk.bsky.social said, there are still tickets available at datamindsconnect.be!

This is not to be missed. When Daniel speaks, the smart people listen. And take copious notes.

The end of an era. Seldom has a decision been so hard but at the same time so right. I love my co-hosts @bindertech.se and @heini.bsky.social and we've had so much fun together. Rest assured that fun will continue, just not in this format. And yes, we still have a bunch of stickers... 😎

This was a very interesting way of looking at it. It makes a lot of sense, and I'm curious to see how this could be applied to the "AI" tooling currently messing up the data space.

It’s good to see me, isn’t it? 💜✨ Yes, yes, the rumors are true — we are OFFICIALLY launching here on Bluesky! In case you forgot, we’re a place to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores, not billionaires. Thanks for being here 🙌🏽

I’m so stealing that.

That makes two of us! We're pretty good on our own, together we'll be even better! Can't wait!

Speakers send in session proposals and then may or may not be selected to speak at a conference. It is common courtesy to inform speakers who were not selected BEFORE publishing the schedule - not doing so is lazy and unprofessional. I’m looking at you, Techorama NL. Do better.

Welcome to the Book of Elin! @heini.bsky.social and @arcticdba.se chat with Elin Hellström about her path to becoming a data engineer. Elin discusses her career twists, love for solving technical challenges, and how she keeps learning in the fast-paced data field. buff.ly/uLXK6cV #MVPBuzz

“When the system forces you to code with a hallucinating clown, eventually you stop resisting. You let him type. You let him be "productive." You check out. You surrender your brain to the noise and just float.” deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

I have a pet peeve with events. I *really* do not like it when they publish the schedule before informing speakers that were not selected. I find it disrespectful that I have to find out by looking at the schedule.

📢 New for #SQLBits: our Decision Makers & #DataLeadership track is packed with real-world insight on building data culture, leading teams & driving change. Hear from experts like @arcticdba.se, @vickyharp.com and @gethynellis.bsky.social. 📈Check the full track sqlbits.com/attend/the-a...

🔐 When working with customer environments, security is everything. Recently, I needed to confirm access to Azure Key Vault in a Microsoft Fabric Notebook—without ever revealing or printing the actual secrets. Wrote up the process in a short blog—check it out 👇 data-marc.com/2025/05/08/v...

ICYMI: Posted this Saturday 👇

Quote a different episode, and rather personal.

#TabularEditor 3.21.0 out now. More Diagram View improvements, TMDL script exports, new Model.MetadataSource API (same as in TE2), DAX Optimizer support for RLS and Calc Items, and more. Check out the release blog: tabulareditor.com/blog/tabular... #DAX #SSAS #AzureAS #PowerBI

This article + video describes how to implement a dynamic Pareto calculation in Power BI based on a measure that can be selected from a slicer and dynamically filtered by other slicers in the report. #powerbi #dax #dataviz https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/dynamic-pareto-analysis-in-power-bi/

There are few people in this community that I can speak more highly of than Robert. I vouch for him without any reservations. He is an exceptional human being and a very, very capable consultant, and I implore anyone in my network with any kind of work opportunity to reach out.

The crazy amount of news out of FabCon Vegas is, well, crazy. This is the second part of our attempt to make some sense of parts of it - let us know what you think were the most useful updates!

Just learned the term "rational astrology" and I'm definitely going to use it! Coined by Randy Steve Waldman, it refers to something people pretend as though it works even though it's obviously bogus. e.g. TSA checkpoints, speed traps, mandatory password rotation, force-closing iOS apps…

300 episodes. Not too bad for a project nobody expected to last more than two weeks. That was eight years ago 😁

I've *finally* found a use for ChatGPT.

This raises another question on the topic of the (in my opinion) unsustainable pace at which software is developed - we don't really have a choice NOT to use preview features these days. I would argue that we do not need the current speed - we need quality more than speed.

Thank you for sharing this experience with us, Daniel! We are so, so grateful for everyone that showed up to be a part of this episode!