by Dr. Owns | May 2, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
The promise of AI agents has taken the world by storm. Agents can interact with the world around them, write articles (not this one though), take actions on your behalf, and generally make the difficult part of automating any task easy and approachable. Agents take...
by Dr. Owns | May 2, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
TL;DR A fast‑growing SaaS woke up to a silent auto‑scale from M20 → M60, adding 20 % to their cloud bill overnight. In a frantic 48‑hour sprint we: flattened N + 1 waterfalls with $lookup , tamed unbounded cursors with projection, limit() and TTL, split 16 MB “jumbo”...
by Dr. Owns | May 2, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Introduction In December 2024, I wrote an article sharing my experience using VSCode (GitHub Copilot) and Cursor (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) from the perspective of a Data Scientist. Should you switch from VSCode to Cursor? I concluded the article by stating: After using...
by Dr. Owns | May 2, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
Sometimes we must load a copy of the same data into Power Query. Power Query offers two ways to get the same data twice: Duplicate and Reference. Let’s look at the difference between these two features and when to use one over the other. Introduction I may need to...
by Dr. Owns | May 2, 2025 | Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Information, Decision Support
On the surface, neural networks and Clustering algorithms seem worlds apart. Neural networks are typically used in supervised learning, where the goal is to label new data based on patterns learned from a labeled dataset. Clustering, by contrast, is usually an...
