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FOR: democracy. AGAINST: fascism, oligarchy, authoritarianism. Database guy, automation obsessed, hobby photog, hobby musician. Tools: databricks, SQL Server, PowerShell, R, Excel, DuckDB https://briandill.com/ https://youpic.com/photographer/BrianDill
Billboard Hot 100 chart of Taylor Swift songs from her "Secret Life of a Showgirl" album.
After the post-Christmas slump, "Opalite" and "The Fate of Ophelia" rebounded on the #BillboardHot100. This week "Opalite" takes the top spot and all but these two songs have fallen off the chart for #TaylorSwift.
Also very excited to see the use of DuckDB in the lite version. I'm presenting a DuckDB 101 session at datatuneconf.com. I hope to bump into you to say hey and thanks in person.
Can't wait to check this out. Thank you from all of us "poors" who don't have a big corporate credit card. :)
Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring That Doesn't Suck
Announcing Free SQL Server Performance Monitoring I built a free, open-source SQL Server performance monitoring tool. Two editions, no licensing...
Billboard Hot 100 chart for Bad Bunny
#BadBunny continues his post-Superbowl bump in the #BillboardHot100
shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...
#rstats
debut songs on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1998-12-05
some of the debut songs that week of 1998-12-05
#billboardhot100
Table showing the Billboard Hot 100 weeks with number of new songs that week.
Dec 5, 1998 saw the most songs (60) debut on the Billboard Hot 100 - aside from the chart's inaugural week way back in 1958.
The next highest debut week had just 34 in Nov 27, 2021. The average # of songs newly appearing on the chart in any week is 9.21.
#billboardhot100
YouTube is now old enough to drink.
DuckDB 101 session will be presented at DataTune conference in Nashville on Sat March 7, 2026
Come see my "DuckDB 101" session on Saturday March 7, 2026 at the datatuneconf.com in Nashville
#DuckDB
@hannes.muehleisen.org I LOOOOVE DuckDB so much that I am presenting a "DuckDB 101" session at datatuneconf.com on March 7
@heidisql.com is there any consideration for supporting DuckDB databases?
@duckdb.org
Billboard Hot 100 chart for Kid Rock
For comparison here is Kid Rock's #BillboardHot100
shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...
#rstats
Billboard Hot 100 chart for Bad Bunny over the past year. 5 songs revived in the rankings after the Superbowl halftime show.
#BadBunny #Superbowl bump on the #BillboardHot100
shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...
#rstats
Is it just me or is the Venn diagram of the Gadsden flag "Don't tread on me" crowd and the "comply or die" crowd starting to look like concentric circles?
#Minnesota #minneapolis #ice
Table showing ranking of popular names that never reached #1
"William" is the most popular name to never reach number one in any year. #SSA #babynames
shiny.briandill.net/Babynames/?n...
wiki.briandill.net/books/duckdb...
Mariah Carey's Billboard Hot 100 chart. Showing her song "All I want for Christmas is You" return to #1 year after year for the past 8 years or so.
Like a moth to a flame Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" returns to #1 again and again.
shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...
#billboardhot100
#rstats #shinyr
chart of popularity of boy's names: Michael, David, and Jacob
Michael, David and Jacob were the king of boy's names from 1954 to 2012. All have seen rapid decline in popularity since 2013.
How popular is YOUR name? shiny.briandill.net/Babynames/
Some stats:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Data: #SocialSecurityAdministration
#rstats
Four Christmas songs in the top 10 - #5 "All I want for Christmas" by Mariah Carey, #6 "Last Christmas" by Wham!, #7 "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee, #8 "Jingle Bell Rock" by Bobby Helms
It's only Dec 4th and already 4 of the #BillboardHot100 chart's top 10 are Christmas songs.
plot of number of unique names for a given sex/year. X-axis is year and y-axis is count. One line for male and one for female.
The # of unique female names began its long rise around 1945. Male names didn't start its long rise until the late 1960's. Both climbed until the mid 2000's when both stopped climbing.
Data from the #SocialSecurityAdministration
How popular is your name? shiny.briandill.net/Babynames
#rstats
The best explainer I have seen on UTF-8 if you want to take a short trip down the encoding rabbit hole. youtu.be/vpSkBV5vydg?...
Can we outlaw the rubberized coating on plastics that turn into a sticky goo after a few years? Or at least require labeling?
#consumersfirst
Why can't someone make an 18650 Li-ion charger that stops charging at 4.10V?
"... it’s far easier to lead ourselves astray when the practical consequences of being wrong are small or nonexistent, while the social consequences of being “wrong” are severe. It’s no coincidence that this describes many controversies that divide along partisan lines."
Ch 1 of
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avacado on napkin 6.02 x 10^23
Where my #chemistry geeks at?
Avocado's number anyone?
If you don't store it carefully it will probably be eaten by a mole!
I'm always weary of pre-trial hype, but if true this is more than a watershed moment. This is species changing.
www.facebook.com/share/p/179c...
photo of Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson of the band "Heart"
The iconic group "Heart" had two songs hit # 1 on the #BillboardHot100 Can you name them?
Don't peek until you have guessed: shiny.briandill.net/BillboardHot...
Artists with 3+ simultaneous Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Beatles 1964
The Bee Gees 1978
none in the 80's, 90's, 00's until
Adele in 2012
Justin Bieber 10-weeks 2015-16
Drake - the first to have 6 2018
Taylor Swift - the first to have 8 - 2022, 2023, 2024
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Today in "let's make you feel old"...
The SNL "more cowbell" skit (2000) is closer to the release of Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" (1976) than today (2025).
youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?...
youtu.be/cVsQLlk-T0s?...
Guess who was POTUS for 9 of the 10 largest single day drops of the DOW? #ArtOfTheDeal #ColdHardFacts
