Zach Renwick @zachrenwick.work · 11/02/2025I agree but they've also been positioning Looker/BigQuery as a more open data stack recently. Specifically trying to market Looker modeler (the semantic layer part of Looker) as its own stand alone tool 020
Zach Renwick @zachrenwick.work · 07/02/2025BigQuery just released UNION ALL BY NAME It solves the issue of perfectly aligning each field properly in SQL. As long as the fields have the same name you're good! 062
Zach Renwick @zachrenwick.work · 30/12/2024Google Analytics 4 contains a known traffic source misattribution bug in the raw BigQuery export. I fixed it with a few lines of code: 131
Zach Renwick @zachrenwick.work · 23/12/2024New [mountain] bike day! This thing is a beast, looking forward to the bigger brakes and suspension for north shore riding 020
Zach Renwick @zachrenwick.work · 12/12/2024Soemthing fundamentally wrong with Strava’s year in sport (Spotify wrapped, but for logging your exercise) is that December isn’t done yet and they’ve sent it out. 000
Zach Renwick @zachrenwick.work · 01/11/2024One of the first things I like to do with new hires is show them our global asset lineage in Dagster (the master DAG). It looks something like this 000