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Jacob Matson

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excel lover & data enthusiast. writing at dataduel.co working at motherduck.com

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Refreshable + sharable + interactive. Mviz is for static reports :)

19.02.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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mviz - Generate beautiful static reports for ad hoc analysis. mviz - Generate beautiful static reports for ad hoc analysis. - README.md

which is why i have this gist for those folks:

gist.github.com/matsonj/1c13...

29.01.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

of course, works great for claude web and desktop users too, but you have to download the latest release and add it manually (annoying)

29.01.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - matsonj/mviz: A chart & report builder designed for use by AI. A chart & report builder designed for use by AI. Contribute to matsonj/mviz development by creating an account on GitHub.

just shipped mviz 1.5 - now with mermaid support!

add it your claude code with `npx add-skill matsonj/mviz`

or

embedded it in your app with `npm i mviz`

github.com/matsonj/mviz

29.01.2026 02:59 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

🀝

21.01.2026 07:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It also works perfectly fine in Claude for Web / Deskop :)

21.01.2026 04:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - matsonj/mviz: placeholder placeholder. Contribute to matsonj/mviz development by creating an account on GitHub.

A gift for my Bsky followers- a chart and report builder designed for usage with AI.

Install for Claude Code (or your favorite IDE):

β€˜npx add-skill matsonj/mviz’

github.com/matsonj/mviz

21.01.2026 04:42 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

😭😭😭

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It sparks joy

18.01.2026 05:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Yeah getting it into something lightweight and runnable so the LLM can quickly iterate is key!

02.09.2025 00:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My exploratory AI workflow – DataDuel.co I’ve been spending time doing some work with AI – and this blog is just a β€œcheck-in” journal on what has been working for me. This blog will begin with β€œIdea Honing” (mini PRD) and then move to an ite...

Checking in on my AI workflow www.dataduel.co/my-explorato...

01.09.2025 22:15 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Stats for Atlanta falcons showing high probability of the 4 seed and very low for 3 or 5 seed

Stats for Atlanta falcons showing high probability of the 4 seed and very low for 3 or 5 seed

Finally implemented nfl tiebreakers in mdsinabox.com - so now teams have a much better outlook on playoff seeding. To wit: the Atlanta falcons

mdsinabox.com/nfl/teams/At...

28.08.2025 13:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
table with gemini pro 2.5 results: 100% solve rate

table with gemini pro 2.5 results: 100% solve rate

table with opus results: 45.5% solve rate

table with opus results: 45.5% solve rate

I've been screwing around with evals - here is my first one!

I know many of you are AI haters but its here and its real.

For this case I've looking at speed, accuracy and cost for solving hard NYT connections.

GitHub repo: github.com/matsonj/eval...

02.08.2025 17:35 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of embedding atlas showing the embedding view on the left, a table at the bottom and charts on the right.

Screenshot of embedding atlas showing the embedding view on the left, a table at the bottom and charts on the right.

πŸš€ We've just open-sourced Embedding Atlas – a tool for exploring large embedding spaces through rich, interactive visualizations πŸ“Š.

01.08.2025 08:24 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

Hope you enjoyed and learned something!

26.06.2025 17:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I suspect no, they probably care more about the iceberg parts than the DuckDB parts? but this is purely speculative.

17.06.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i've also been spending a lot of time on pg_duckdb (and how to run it) as we prepare for launching 1.0 of that extension. Can't wait to share more

17.06.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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PostgreSQL and Ducks: The Perfect Analytical Pairing - MotherDuck Blog Learn how to integrate PostgreSQL with DuckDB and MotherDuck for faster analytics. Compare DuckDB Postgres Extension, pg_duckdb, and CDC approaches with practical examples and best practices for each ...

Something challenging about @duckdb.org : its a bit of a funhouse - many doors to enter that get you to the same place.

I wrote about one of those doors - Postgres!

motherduck.com/blog/postgre...

17.06.2025 14:20 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

!! Super clever

30.05.2025 03:09 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This practical example of how easy it is to bootstrap your observability is part of why I love working on DuckDB every day!

29.05.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Another good strategy is partitioning your writes to object storage by date / time (i.e. by hour) so you can easily write naive queries for analysis and backfills, like `select * from 's3://my_bucket/year/month/day/hour/*.json'`

29.05.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the notions we think about quite a bit at @motherduck.com is "handling data before it becomes big" and I think this example from @tigrisdata.com really nails it. The trick here is parsing the JSON on insert so its really quick to query it.

29.05.2025 21:27 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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NFL season update on www.mdsinabox.com/nfl

23.05.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DuckDB v1.3.0 β€œOssivalis” is out and it packs a ton of new features, fixes and optimizations.

See the announcement blog post: duckdb.org/2025/05/21/a...

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Release DuckDB 1.3.0 "Ossivalis" Β· duckdb/duckdb This release of DuckDB is named "Ossivalis" after Bucephala Ossivalis, an ancestor of the Goldeneye duck that lived Millions of years ago. Please also refer to the announcement blog post: https://d...

WAKE UP EVERYONE ITS DUCKDB RELEASE DAY

github.com/duckdb/duckd...

21.05.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i will never love another ERP like I loved Dynamics NAV.

16.05.2025 14:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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this is the future they want for you

17.04.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is nothing official I am aware of.

14.04.2025 20:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0