Michael Whitaker

Serverless app development, Analytics, click and hiking trails

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

I like using Claude Code for many tasks, but I feel Gemini has been giving me better results for SQL queries, particularly for BigQuery. Maybe Gemini has better knowledge there, which would not be surprising.

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Check out the GitHub repo with full implementation details, sample data, and deployment instructions: https://t.co/d2biCAY5ML
Live demo: https://t.co/5DskVGZ46B

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Just released a new community visualization that brings interactive radar charts to Looker Studio.Built with @observablehq/plot #LookerStudio

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

@rohindhar I personally like Email Octopus. Friendly and focused company. They have a lot of power features too if you need it.

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

@BetterRetail @kurtinc I also typically recommend turning on the BigQuery link to get raw data and store it permanently. Then you can roll your own reports.

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

No pagination in #GA4 explorations? Explorations are the only way to do proper segmentation, but you won't be able see more than 500 rows

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Explorations in Google Analytics 4 not working right now. Anyone else?

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Even if no data will be processed when GA UA shuts down, will this still be the case:

"If you have an existing configuration in the Google tag for your Universal Analytics property, it will be applied to your Google Analytics 4 property as well."

https://t.co/VrtOVIWX0B

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

@JonZLuo @langchain Still trying to wrap my head around this. Ss SQLGeneratorChain an API in langchain?

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

One of the key ideas is analytics is "segment or die" and that data in aggregate is not good enough.

Boy don't they keep segmentation hidden in GA4. Can't apply segments to main reports and missing in API too. I guess everyone using BigQuery instead?

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

@AdiPolak Looks interesting! Trying out the lakeFS playground, which has some parquet files. Are there any setup steps to do as I just get "This file type isn't supported for viewing"?

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

New Post. Cloud Run Jobs gets the job done for dbt and BigQuery.

https://t.co/G90BLuE8XX

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Quite impressed with my kid’s programming class. First order of business is to set up a Google Cloud project and create a http cloud function. There must be a gazillion “hello world” end points out there!

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

@moseskagan Allowable rent increase in Oakland is 6.7% in July. Look out for emergency law to trim that at the last minute.

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Very satisfying to be able to reproduce a report by the US census bureau from raw data. ⁦@observablehq⁩ is an amazing tool. https://t.co/EhZ5GEfBsy

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

Trying out Vertex AI. Watch out for cost. Trained a model and it seems to run the full node-hours you specify. I assumed it would run a fraction of that since I used a small toy dataset. Ain't cheap if you just want to muck around and get into machine learning.

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

The simple pleasures in life. First pull request in my dbt GitHub Action 🥳.

I'll brush over the fact that it was due to an error in the code. https://t.co/jKskvnIGtK

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

@usujason @OoniHQ Do you cook anything else in there aside from pizzas?

[Michael Whitaker @monitus]

I really like Brian's content and advice on open source, DevOps and automation.

[bdougie on the internet @bdougieYO]

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