easy (credits) Hey, new Friday, new Data News. This week, I feel like the selection is smaller than usual, so enjoy the links. I'm a bit late with the Recommendations emails, I'm sorry about that I got a few new leads as a freelancer I had to take in priority changing a bit my schedule. But don't worry it gonna be out soon. AI News ? When do models get the same hype as 2007 iPhone release? I did not get the memo. Meta releases Llama 3 — After last week Mistral new models, this week ends with the new Meta open-source models. Llama the Third is online. One thing to analyse is that the model cre ..read more

The fest we deserve (credits) I hope this Data News finds you well. In today's edition we have a large selection of links, I think you will enjoy it. But first I want to welcome all the new members joining this week after my new episode on DataGen with Robin Conquet. This is an episode in French and we talked mainly about the eventual end of the modern data stack. Which I have already condensed in a post a few weeks ago (in English). MDS Fest ? As announced last week I've participated to the MDS Fest 2.0 this Thursday. I've shared my journey with Apache Superset and why I consider Superset the ..read more

Lost between ideas (credits) Hey, new Data News edition. I hope you will enjoy this week selection after skipping last week one. I was a bit overwhelmed with the amount of tasks I had on the desk—and I'm still. But here we are. Before jumping to the news, I want to let you know that I have improved the Recommendations page and the weekly emails with the recommendation should arrive soon. The new page supports better the mobile and give you titles and overviews of links which are GPT4 generated. I'll speak at the MDS Fest 2.0 next week on April 10. MDS Fest is a free virtual 5 days confere ..read more

Mountains I hope this e-mail finds you well, wherever you are. I'd like to thank you for the excellent comments you sent me last week after the publication of the first version of the Recommendations. This is just the beginning! This week I've added a subscribe button in the Recommendations page in order for you to opt-in for the weekly recommendation email—every Tuesday. You can subscribe starting today on the page and you'll get emails as soon as I've developed the email sending—expected to be out at the end of the month. You can opt-in for the recommendations Second point, I passed the 100 ..read more

We all need recommendations (credits) When I started writing this newsletter nearly three years ago, I never imagined that the words I write on my keyboard would take such an important place in my life. All the interactions I have with you, whether online or offline, are always amazing and give me wings. Today I want to introduce a new feature in the Data News galaxy. I don't talk much about my freelance life in Data News because sometimes I think that's not the contract we have together. Data News promise is to give you, every week, the links I've hand-picked with my spicy opinion about them ..read more

Mistral (credits) Hello all, this is the Data News, this week edition might be smaller than usual in term of comments as I'm working on a Data News related project that takes me a bit of time, which will probably lead to a series of articles. Before I forget I've appeared on The Joe Reis Show, we chatted with Joe about data engineering teaching, why it is hard and about generative AI that will change education for ever. This is a 1h podcast, I hope you will enjoy listening to it. Final reminder, next week there is La Conférence MLOps which will take place in Paris on March 7th. If you want to ..read more

My ideas these days (credits) Hey, fresh Data News edition. This week I've participated to a round table about data and did a cool presentation about Engines. The idea was to depict the history of engines over the last 40 years and what leads to polars and DuckDB. Obviously the I forgot a few things and I'll do a more complete v2 soon. This is my third presentation about DuckDB in the last 3 months and I think I'll slow down a bit until I get new crazy things to share. Engines evolution (me) There are 3 points that have triggered discussion about the visualisation I done What about Arrow? — A ..read more

No. This question generated a lot of content last week, and a lot of words were written. I wanted to keep my answer short so as not to burden you with a few thousand more words to read. Modern data stack has been coined by US companies and VCs—mainly Fivetran / dbt Labs—as a word to quickly emphasis a way to build data stack in the cloud related to ELT. It was a well-suited marketing term, let's be honest. The time came and everyone took their place at the table to eat a slice of cake. A lot of people have issues with the modern word. Probably because it's not an explicit semantic, definition ..read more

Italy Sora (credits) Hey you, time for the Data News. Because I did not send the news last week you will get articles from the 2 last weeks. Last few days have been heavily packed with AI News as well. Disclaimer, the 2 events below will be in French. Before jumping to the news there are a few events I want to write about. Next Wednesday I will participate to a Data Night Talk a open discussion about AI & data engineering with other content creators. We will do it online / in-person. So tune-in. I working on a 10-minute light talk about data engines (?) and a funny game. ✨ Second, I'm part ..read more

hey (credits) Hello here, this is Christophe from Amsterdam. I hope you're doing good. I'm in Amsterdam for the day for the DuckCon #4. The DuckDB annual conference, and god I like Europe. Being able to travel by train from Berlin to Paris to Amsterdam while going to the west of France for a lecture in a week is something truly awesome. Anyway this week will be a mixed Data News with links, stuff and ideas and a small wrap-up of the DuckCon + the stuff I presented on Wed. to a Modern Data Stack meetup in Paris about DuckDB WASM. I hope you'll enjoy it. The text-to-sql problem Every once in a w ..read more