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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 16/04/2025

Yo SF Bay Area #databs crew, want to talk lakehouses at a real Lake House? :) Next week after Data Council, join the founders of @clickhouse.com, @motherduck.com, @startreedata.bsky.social, and @tobikodata.com to talk real-time databases and next-generation ETL. www.rilldata.com/events/data-...

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 11/04/2025

Data pipelines can be visualized as flowing data left to right, starting with raw sources, ingested and modeled into database tables, and eventually served out through user-facing applications and dashboards. "Shifting left" means taking logic that lives on the right side and moving it leftward.

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 11/04/2025

"Shifting left" is the new trend among in data stacks -- but what does it mean and what does it matter?

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 14/03/2025

Like others, I jumped on the bandwagon to ridicule the DOGE analyst who "overheated her hard drive" by analyzing just 60k rows of data. I was wrong. The truth is even dumber. 🧵

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 31/01/2025

DuckCon #6 is now live from Amsterdam (link below!) In about 20 minutes I'll be sharing some work we've been doing at @rilldata.com on metrics-layer-powered dashboards. And speculating in my last slide, because why not, about what you would name an AI agent that runs on DuckDB... 🦆

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 16/01/2025

I'm collaborating with @ssp.sh on a brief history of pivot tables. We'll be tracing their lineage and evolution across Visicalc, Lotus, Excel, PowerPivot, Qlik, and PowerBI. Any sites, videos, products (dead or alive) that you would recommend we should mention or dig into?

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 05/12/2024

@sfchronicle.com maybe you could find it in your heart to remove the paywall on the TSUNAMI EVACUATION MAP? www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 05/12/2024

hey @sfchronicle.com maybe you could find it in your heart to remove the paywall for the article on evacuation instructions?

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 05/12/2024

OK official prediction is 12:10pm so ChatGPT wasn't that far off: tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 05/12/2024

OK if this stochastic parrot's answer is to be trusted, I'll be bracing for the tsunami's impact around 12:15-12:30pm.

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 20/11/2024

Well if you barely sleep for a few days and then crash at 8pm you too can sleep like a 6 year old. 🤣

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 20/11/2024

Evolution of the data stack, 2012-present.

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 18/11/2024

OK @jakthom.bsky.social I'll push this first version of the dashboard up the cloud in a few minutes... it's running locally against just one hour of data (about 8 million records), but would be interesting to run against the full enchilada of data to see some real trends.

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 15/11/2024

(apparently gifs don’t work?!)

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 12/11/2024

The GenBI genie says: "upside down Shakunetsu Hadoken"

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 11/11/2024

Strolling by my favorite cafe + urban garden in San Francisco, Stable Cafe. It’s a physical reminder that spaces matter, whether physical or digital. Here’s to making this place matter too.

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 08/11/2024

Apple Health now telling me to eat a Twinkie to erase this calorie deficit.

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Mike Driscoll @medriscoll.com · 31/10/2024

"The joy that we have building [DuckDB] is reflected in the user experience. We enjoy making new, crazy things work ... and then seeing how the world reacts. If all the whales adopt your stupid SQL feature in like, two months, that's pretty motivating, I would say, right?" - @hannes.muehleisen.org

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