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Praised by Kubrick, The Vanishing (1990) is a riveting, terrifying film that succeeds in its simplicity & realism. If you’re one who thrives on fast pacing and rapid turns of plot it may be too much of a slow burn, but I was engaged start to finish and really savored the details and atmosphere.

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Stacked area chart with inline labels and arrows How to create stacked area chart with inline labels and arrows with an inflexion point in Python with matplotlib

Amazing resource! It’s particularly helpful to see the steps taken to iteratively build an effective viz starting from the most basic version and layering on well-reasoned enhancements (e.g. python-graph-gallery.com/web-stacked-...). Thanks for sharing.

Apparently this was a collab with AWS:

„We’ve invested in a collaboration with DuckDB to accelerate Iceberg support in Duck, and I expect that we will focus a lot on other opportunities to really simplify the bridge between developers and tabular data“

www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/03/in-s...

Data looks better naked: Pie chart edition

Genius!

GitHub - fivetran/dbt_ga4_export Contribute to fivetran/dbt_ga4_export development by creating an account on GitHub.

Also, Fivetran’s dbt package is helpful if you’re using Fivetran to ingest the data from
BigQuery or if you just want to see how they model the data.

github.com/fivetran/dbt...

Learn to utilize the GA4 data export in BigQuery A digital guide with example queries and tutorials on how to query Google Analytics 4 data in BigQuery.

There’s a wealth of info on it at www.ga4bigquery.com. Some very helpful free content, and some available via an annual subscription. The sub is well worth the fee IMO if you’re new to the data model and all of its idiosyncrasies.

Great read @benesch.bsky.social!

Provides a lot of clarity.

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I’m in the middle of Fairy Tale by Stephen King. The audiobook is particularly well done.

I would enjoy reading what you have to say about temporal tables 👍

An academic study found that on July 13, 2024 — the day Musk endorsed Trump — there was a systemic change across Twitter resulting in massive increases in reach for Musk and other accounts supporting Trump.

This should be a scandal.

I recently listened to Isaacson’s bio of Albert Einstein, and before that his bio of Leonardo Da Vinci. Both books fascinated me and left me in awe of the men and their profound impacts on the world.

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