Jacob Matson
@matsonj.com
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excel lover & data enthusiast. writing at dataduel.co working at motherduck.com
Checking in on my AI workflow
www.dataduel.co/my-explorato...
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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...
https://www.dataduel.co/my-exploratory-ai-workflow/
about 1 month ago
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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
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about 1 month ago
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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...
2 months ago
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Dominik Moritz
2 months ago
🚀 We've just open-sourced Embedding Atlas – a tool for exploring large embedding spaces through rich, interactive visualizations 📊.
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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...
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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 ...
https://motherduck.com/blog/postgres-duckdb-options/
4 months ago
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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.
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4 months ago
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NFL season update on
www.mdsinabox.com/nfl
5 months ago
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DuckDB
5 months ago
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...
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WAKE UP EVERYONE ITS DUCKDB RELEASE DAY
github.com/duckdb/duckd...
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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...
https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/releases/tag/v1.3.0
5 months ago
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this is the future they want for you
6 months ago
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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
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NBA Sim
https://mdsinabox.com/nba
6 months ago
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Jacob Matson
archie.md
6 months ago
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
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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,…
https://lu.ma/gmsg4lcl
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fooling around with some nba dataviz (cc
@aaronblackshear.bsky.social
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7 months ago
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Jacob Matson
DuckDB
7 months ago
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...
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just discovered my daughter chatting with her friends like this in gsheets
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7 months ago
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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...
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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...
https://www.dataduel.co/if-spreadsheets-are-eternal-are-bi-tools-transitory/
7 months ago
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General Folders
8 months ago
"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)."
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been pondering what the future of data & analytics looks like, so I spent some time writing about it.
www.dataduel.co/if-spreadshe...
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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...
https://www.dataduel.co/if-spreadsheets-are-eternal-are-bi-tools-transitory/
8 months ago
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Jacob Matson
apoorva lal
8 months ago
github.com/EnhancedJax/...
saw this on terminaltrove the other day; looks cool
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how it feels to use
@duckdb.org
8 months ago
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reposted by
Jacob Matson
archie.md
8 months ago
working on improving the login experience for
@duckdb-gsheets.com
no more pasting tokens into the terminal
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Been waiting for this! Now goes on slide one for every talk :)
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8 months ago
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reposted by
Jacob Matson
Howard Beck
9 months ago
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.)
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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!
9 months ago
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Marveling at how nice the new theme looks over on
www.mdsinabox.com/nba/teams/LAC/
9 months ago
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Traditional BI? SQL. ML? also SQL. AI? Again, SQL!
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9 months ago
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Extremely proud of this blog I wrote about Dual Execution on
@motherduck.com
- it brings the magic of insanely scalable cloud for prod and fast iteration on local to dbt in a seamless way. Very happy to share this with the world.
motherduck.com/blog/dual-ex...
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Local dev and cloud prod for faster dbt development - MotherDuck Blog
Spark the Joy of beautiful local development workflows with MotherDuck & dbt | Reading time: 7 min read
https://motherduck.com/blog/dual-execution-dbt/
9 months ago
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this is relevant to my interests:
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9 months ago
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posting this to keep my active poster count alive
@alexnoonan.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Jacob Matson
9 months ago
Join us tomorrow where
@alexnoonan.bsky.social
,
@matsonj.com
, and
@colton.boo
will discuss: 🦆 Building an end-to-end data platform ingesting Bluesky data into MotherDuck, and PowerBI 👈 Shifting Left in Data Engineering 🧠 And AI-powered Data Engineering best practices
lp.dagster.io/deep-dive-sh...
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Dagster Deep Dive - January 14
Join this deep dive on Tuesday, January 14th, for a discussion on modern data engineering workflows and best practices.
https://lp.dagster.io/deep-dive-shift-left-motherduck
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MotherDuck
9 months ago
🚀 Join us for a MotherDuck Workshop in Amsterdam! 📅 31 Jan, right before DuckCon,
@mehdio.com
and
@matsonj.com
will level up your DuckDB experience with hands-on fun & insights. ✨ Learn from DuckDB nerds & enjoy twice the fun! 👉 Register:
lu.ma/xjkc4bh9
🦆
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Supercharge DuckDB with MotherDuck: Scale, Share, and Simplify Analytics [In-person Workshop] · Luma
Take your DuckDB experience to the next level with MotherDuck with this in-person workshop in Amsterdam! This workshop is designed for new and existing DuckDB…
https://lu.ma/xjkc4bh9
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Alex Noonan
9 months ago
This time of year is full of reflection and self-improvement. That's why our upcoming deep dive (Jan 14 at 9 a.m. PT) with
@matsonj.com
at MotherDuck will focus on improving data engineering workflows and leveraging AI tools at their best. Register here:
lp.dagster.io/deep-dive-sh...
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Are they just rolling dice to combine shows at this point? Next up: “diners drive ins and deal or no deal”
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9 months ago
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Who else out here thinking about WASM
9 months ago
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Coming around to probably just using MotherDuck WASM, because it includes the cache is baked in too which means the interactions for building pages that load quickly is so simple.
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9 months ago
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Trying to make node serverless functions work with the latest version of the duckdb node APIs and failing miserably (works on local, doesn’t work on vercel) This would be such a sick project if I could get it to work 😭
10 months ago
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oh boy can't wait to watch some great nfl today. > the local game is Jets @ Rams haha nevermind
10 months ago
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a fun friday treat for the holidays (compete to win prizes)
game.motherduck.com
10 months ago
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me today
10 months ago
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had a couple of opportunities to actually use an AI-enabled coding workflow, and I wrote about the experience.
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Exploring AI-Enhanced Development: My Experience with Codium’s Windsurf IDE – DataDuel.co
AI tools like Codium's Windsurf IDE are reshaping coding practices through projects like updating a theme for Evidence.dev and developing a Terraform provider for MotherDuck. These experiences highlig...
https://www.dataduel.co/exploring-ai-enhanced-development-my-experience-with-codiums-windsurf-ide/
10 months ago
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A peek behind the scenes of what we are up to at
@motherduck.com
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10 months ago
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hell yeah brother
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10 months ago
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This is the bull case for
@motherduck.com
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10 months ago
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Branson Reese
10 months ago
During the Great Depression, FDR calmed a shaken nation's nerves with his Far Side chats where he would use the radio to describe the most recent Far Side comic.
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fooling around with new themes on
mdsinabox.com
. trying to evoke looking at the sports page late 90s in the seattle times...
10 months ago
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one thing i love about duckdb is that it is "in-process not in-memory" which means you can run TCP-DS SF10,000 and it will complete on a reasonably large machine with like 1.5TB of RAM.
10 months ago
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dark mode on
@evidence.dev
! lets go!!
10 months ago
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yes and no
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10 months ago
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its a bit of this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuu...
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10 months ago
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good to see even state reps are shitposters now
10 months ago
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