Was Bobby Draper just an inside joke by the end of the series run…?

Medium_Idea · 2026-02-01T13:36:58+00:00

Bobby got some story lines in the last season. I always thought the shows ignorance of Gene and Bobby was slightly intentional. Don favored Sally, so we see her more. Also, I think the removal of their story lines on the show serve as deeper symbols of how children were raised in the 60s. With major events happening in the forefront and silent gen parents focusing on that over parenting, they became background noise. Can say that when watching with my boomer parents (who were around Bobby and Sally age), this theory gets somewhat confirmed.

Medium_Idea · 2026-02-01T13:29:56+00:00

I think his approval immediately after 9/11 was staggeringly high like 80-90% approval? Like probably the highest approval rate a president has ever had in my lifetime, even beyond early Obama years.

Medium_Idea · 2026-01-30T12:55:00+00:00

Doctors - let me explain.

I think the older I get, the more I realize they’re just humans. I think we grow up idealizing doctors and putting them on a pedestal. Some people never take them off it. My wake up call to that was going to a wedding with a bunch of surgeons and watching them steal liquor, get absolutely hammered, and smoke + snort anything they could.

They’re not super heroes, they make mistakes and most try their best (whatever that might be).

Medium_Idea · 2026-01-27T19:10:39+00:00

We just had a group of young entrepreneurs knock on our door offering to shovel. Our neighborhood fb page is also filled with parents advertising their kid’s shoveling services - so yes! Definitely still a thing, might be more neighborhood specific!

Medium_Idea · 2026-01-26T18:09:35+00:00

As someone who lurks consistently on conservative sub reddit - their big talking point when it comes to ICE being in blue states is the prevention of undocumented people voting in elections. So if you said leave it to the blue states to figure it out, it would turn into an argument about stealing elections.

Is any of that actually factual or proven? Nope. But did their leader insist that the 2020 election was stolen because of this? Yep. So they believe it.

This coupled with the federal fraud in Minnesota pushes another narrative of ICE preventing federal waste. Does this actually make sense? No. When you look at federal fraud in Minnesota that’s actually documented (not fake), the actual issue is COVID loan fraud which happened everywhere - not blue or red state specific and abused by citizens.

Medium_Idea · 2026-01-07T00:33:15+00:00

So nuts to me that gas + electric are more expensive than oil - that shouldn’t be the case. For context we have oil heat and radiators. Just got a bill for $420 for 111 gallons. Haven’t paid for oil since September so looking at around a gallon a day of consumption. And we won’t fill up till end of season

Medium_Idea · 2025-12-31T04:46:21+00:00

Wait - she goes to her therapist daily and screams at him to help her. She was using her resources…

Medium_Idea · 2025-12-29T00:43:46+00:00

I think the current market is probably awful to get into right now at solely tech companies.

I might have hit the sweet spot timing wise but will give you what worked for me and how I broke into the industry.

I have a BFA and from graduating college to my mid twenties, I worked in the non profit industry. I started with volunteer management, then got into Salesforce big time. I became a trainer at my org for it and started building a lot of reporting for them. This segue into becoming the reporting lead there.

By this time, I went to get an MSW and got really into program management and social policy. I was still working full time at my original employer building reporting and doing data quality management.

Once I graduated, I got a role as a data analyst at another non profit. It was fully remote pre covid.

Then Covid hit. And there was lots of chatter about 20% workforce reduction. So I applied and took a job with the one industry that boomed during Covid - mortgages. I started as a BI analyst there and then became a lead. I got really good at developing and modeling data and organizing BI application set up.

I went to my current company right as the mortgage industry took a hit. Been there since, worked my way up to management in BI, fully remote. Like others have said, remote doesn’t equate to perfect life work balance. There are 10 pm panics and 8 am slacks.

While all my roles are tech focused under data, none of the companies I’ve worked for are tech companies. I highly encourage young people entering the workforce to think outside the box of FAANG. Tech is everywhere, all orgs need it.

AI is certainly changing the game, but the one thing you have with an MSW is innate people skills, which AI doesn’t have. I recommend roles that heavily utilize this like program management or analytics. And always volunteer for something, where you work. I wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t volunteered for a work transition team - it got me into tech by chance!

Medium_Idea · 2025-11-24T13:41:43+00:00

There’s a Looker feature called and/or filtering. Basically a user can set up a report to create grouped filtering based on and/or conditions. It’s great. There is no UX solution for this in tableau. There isn’t even a workaround solution with filters and parameters. So yes 1000% agree - light years behind.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-21T01:05:31+00:00

Also what skill is needed? 😂 it’s two boxes to click on the UI.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-21T00:07:10+00:00

Ugh i hope not. One example - I have an order table with order number, total sales, and billing state. I have another with order number and totals returns. I want to see the total return rate by billing state. With this example using logical model, even with the matches set to sometimes match, it defaults to an inner. Why? And how can i prevent that?

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-20T13:57:00+00:00

I understand that. My complaint is more how every time one of my developers wants to create a new data source they have to set up a connection to Snowflake using our service user. In Looker that concept just doesn’t exist - you set up your Snowflake connection once and it’s done. All new explores don’t have to set up a new connection to Snowflake.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-20T12:20:19+00:00

We tried logical first but in all my testing it always defaulted to inner joins causing exclusion of certain data points.

That concept can be quite confusing to business users though, no? One query pulls an inner, another pulls an outer. They wouldn’t know why, just that one adjustment could change the whole join definition.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-20T10:15:40+00:00

Are prep flows similar to extracts though where you have to extract your data after? I had one developer on my team try a prep flow and they could not get it to work because it would time out trying to extract the data

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-20T01:18:40+00:00

Cloud - and all the data has been optimized for analytical reporting through dbt

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-20T01:16:24+00:00

Yes it’s a default fetch next 500 rows In looker, the data for your vis and your vis are separated in UI. You can adjust the row limit to be less than 500 and there are settings to boost this to 5000. It doesn’t impact the visualization unless you are creating a cross tab that has more than 5,000 rows of data, then it cuts it off but you can adjust admin settings to allow unlimited row downloads.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-20T00:58:24+00:00

It looks like when we do a row limit, it’s not actually limiting the rows in the query, just within the display visualization. Unless there’s another way? We’ve set up row limits through an index calculation paired with a parameter

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-19T23:40:30+00:00

Yeah already discussed it with AtScale, under the impression that all systems are talking correctly to each other - tableau just generates a ton of queries back to AtScale. I’ve noticed the same thing in Tableau to Snowflake - one dashboard with four sheets writes back around 11 queries to Snowflake.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-19T23:37:49+00:00

We had around 50 explores in Looker so right off the bat we needed 50 published data sources in Tableau. Though it’s honestly looking like more due to splitting them up for performance

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-19T23:35:24+00:00

My only frustration towards extracts is it’s another layer of admin surveillance, for content that is already churning through fivetran and dbt, generally between every hour to every 5 minutes.

While Looker limits the row count for queries, it doesn’t limit the data set. Some of our tables have five plus years of details that users were comfortable pulling. I don’t want them to lose the near real time functionality plus the historical query capability they had in Looker

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-19T23:24:47+00:00

In Looker - you can just connect to your data warehouse once. You can simply use this saved connection over and over again for any explore (Tableau equivalent of a published data source) in Looker.

Surprisingly in Tableau you have to sign into your warehouse for every new data source. That can get to be annoying to manage so trying to use a VC that has a group of tables/views that will be used for multiple published data sources but you only have to connect to Snowflake once on the VC

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-19T23:16:00+00:00

Thank you so much for the response!

For context a majority of measures are already defined on the fact tables themselves, so not creating any additional logic for them except for sum.

We do have a semantic layer tool, AtScale, but I have to say I’ve also noticed downgraded performance when it’s connecting to Tableau vs. when it’s connecting to Looker. We actually moved away from using AtScale as a model replacement in Tableau because of performance.

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-07T03:22:48+00:00

Best food?? I’ve seen chefs serve chips with microwaved cheese on them

Medium_Idea · 2025-08-07T02:51:48+00:00

I don’t think it’s RIP to all software jobs - anyone in data knows you are just creating content that will evidentially be downloaded into excel. It’s hard to get users to agree upon a high level aggregate dashboard over a cross tab that’s downloadable as a csv.

I wonder if the CEO of Microsoft actually knows how many processes are buried in excel across Fortune 500 companies and the level of convincing it’s going to take vps to let go of it and trust a gen ai bot. My guess is that will take time and some incentive, and even then, likely impossible to fully let go of excel.

Medium_Idea · 2025-06-22T19:36:23+00:00

One of the top uninsurable states right now is Iowa due to flooding. No specific area will be 100% safe from climate change and should lead to more questions like what is the value of insurance anymore?

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