Data Operations

Posts about data operations, analytics, and organizational data management

182 posts

Build a dashboard from a single data file

 libraries like Chart.js + simple weather data combine with a prompt to compare weather data in two sample cities Effective dashboards mean answering a small set of questions exceptionally well. You can have a beautiful design that progressively reveals information…

How do you show your work with LLMs?

Chatbot outputs sometime seem like magic. The first time you feed a PDF to Google’s Notebook LLM tool and get a podcast that explains the document to you, it feels like magic. The second time you do the same thing,…

How to fix race conditions in no-code workflows

Photo by Debdut Chowdhury on Unsplash When you build your first “hello world” automation with Zapier, Pipedream, or n8n, you’re looking for simple things. Connect a trigger, run some steps, make a few decisions, and get a predictable outcome. For…

A time machine that predicts churn

Photo by Roger Ce on Unsplash I want to build a time machine. Let me be more specific. I want to create a log of events that’s so good it identifies the events that are very likely to predict churn.…

The multiplayer challenge for no-code tools

Two-player mode in Old School Rally Thanks for reading! Let me know if there’s a topic you’d like me to cover. The promise of no-code and low-code tools is compelling. We want to democratize software development and make it accessible…