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AI's Slope of Enlightenment
Roll up your sleeves, the dust is settling
Sep 23 • 
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LLM Benchmark - Part 2
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Mistral with more realistic examples
Sep 16 • 
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August 2025

LLM Pricing - Part 1
Why price-per-token is not everything to consider
Aug 20 • 
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Scaling Your Data Function
How to proceed after your first data hire
Aug 6 • 
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July 2025

HOW TO: Machine Readable Spreadsheets
Best Practices for Data Management
Jul 31 • 
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Query-Driven Development
Structure to combat the model inflation
Jul 24 • 
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How to fill the first Data Role in a Company
Today, we're diving into a crucial topic: making your first data hire.
Jul 16 • 
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Choosing the Right BI Tool for Your Use Case
In a previous article, I shared my personal ranking of various BI tools based on my preferences and experiences.
Jul 9 • 
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Debugging Data Pipelines and Metrics: A Practical Guide
A systematic approach to identify the issue
Jul 2 • 
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June 2025

My Analytics & BI Quadrant
A very opinionated assessment
Jun 25 • 
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Effectively Handling Failures in Data Pipelines
... and strengthen stakeholder trust
Jun 18 • 
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Keep your BI tool as dumb as possible
... and shift logic "left"
Jun 10 • 
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