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Panel at goto Copenhagen: "Where is SW development Going

was on a panel at goto Copenhagen last September with Holly Cummings, Trisha Gee, Dave Farley, and Daniel Terhorst-North. We discussed the current state of software development and where it…

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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

A pre-trained GenAI model lacks recent and specific information about a domain. Bharani Subramaniam and I explain how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) can fill that gap. more… Source: martinfowler

Analytics

Data bead bracelets

Data Beads, by Eszter Katona and Mihály Minkó, is a fun initiative that encourages people to make and wear bracelets based on data: This is a grassroots initiative that’s all…

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Radar Trends to Watch: February 2025

Last month, DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model (now apparently named DeepThink), with capabilities similar to OpenAI o1. What’s important about DeepSeek isn’t its benchmark results; there are a number…

Analytics

✚ Ridgeline Chart with Color Gradients

Ridgeline charts, sometimes but less often called frequency trails, show time series data with overlapping line or area charts. Because of the overlapping, you can see more vertically in less…

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Book chart showing Barnes & Noble opening new stores

I assumed that Barnes & Noble was on its way out, but I guess not. Danielle Alberti and Lindsey Bailey for Axios have this charming chart showing 57 new locations…

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Health and climate data purge

For The Verge, Justine Calma reports on the recent takedowns. Some groups have been preparing for this: The End of Term Web Archive project has saved content on federal government…

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Microsoft Fabric Copilot to write DAX queries in Power BI update

We are excited to announce that writing DAX queries with Copilot can utilize semantic model descriptions, synonyms, and sample values from columns. Source: PowerBI

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About 8,000 U.S. government pages taken down

The New York Times used a programmatic approach to estimate the number of pages taken down so far since Friday. Ethan Singer reporting: On Friday, The Times downloaded the list…

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an alternative to error bars

So many data visualization and design-related questions are context-dependent. For example, if someone asks if one chart type is better or worse than another, the answer is, “It depends.” Who’s…