Small Data SF: Think Small, Build Big
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Rethinking AI & data from the ground up. A community for those building smarter AI and data systems with real workloads, not petabytes.
The rumors are true...@smalldatasf talks are dropping starting NOW. Watch this space; this weekend will be a double feature 👀 New talks every week: youtube.com/watch?v=VIK_zg…
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Curious about DuckLake? Join @verazelet and @matsonj this Thursday for a practical webinar on DuckLake implementation 🦆 Learn how to efficiently load real-time and batch data into DuckLake using @EstuaryDev . We'll cover architecture basics, common challenges, and demo a…
🎫🦆 Early bird tix are live! 🎤 First round of speakers just dropped! Join the builders doing more with less → $295 until Aug 4: smalldatasf.com

In the spirit of Giving Tuesday, Senior Data Engineer Sahil Gupta shares @dosomething 's journey of adopting MotherDuck as their data warehouse to deliver positive ROI and efficient analytics without the overhead. Read more: motherduck.com/blog/dosomethi…
"We've become accustomed to being in demand: There's more requests for data than ever before, and there's not enough time to get it all done." -- Lindsay Murphy inspires us to think inside the box. Catch up on her talk from @smalldatasf: youtube.com/watch?v=Ag-VNc…
It's almost time!!! Join us at 6PM TONIGHT with @JamsocketHQ and @Altana_AI for a Small Data watch party in Williamsburg 🔥 Save your spot, late flockers welcome: lu.ma/small-data-nyc
Listen to "Why is Small Data important?" by The Ravit Show. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-r… @James_Wine @motherduck
Listen to "Why Small Data is important? What do you think?" by The Ravit Show. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-r… @hamiltonulmer @motherduck
Listen to "Myths of Big Data, Small Data Movement" by The Ravit Show. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-r… @motherduck @jrdntgn
I was bummed to miss Small Data SF this year, but to make up for it we @JamsocketHQ are co-hosting a watch party of some talks with @MotherDuck and @altana_ai in NYC in a few weeks! lu.ma/small-data-nyc
Small data hat for a small dog - shoutout to @hamiltonulmer for the awesome @motherduck hat! 🦆 🧢
Life on the other side of the "big data" hype - the future of analytics and AI. Great podcast starring the MotherDuck AI team @tdoehmen @krish_adi_ changelog.com/practicalai/292
Web Analytics in the browser with @duckdb WASM: Filtering in milliseconds, instead of waiting for API responses
Small is beautiful 😍 My favorite takeaways from Small Data SF 2024: ☝🏻 Local-First, Cloud-Second Architectures ✌🏻 The Power of Smart AI and Local Models @motherduck 💛🦆
Small Data is bigger (and hotter 🔥 ) than ever. Catch up on the action with our recap - motherduck.com/blog/small-dat…
Are you kidding me? Look at this:
We put a LLM in SQL and also show you the power of SLMs (small language models) in the MotherDuck data warehouse. motherduck.com/blog/sql-llm-p…
It was an honour to speak at @smalldatasf and meet so many interesting people yesterday! If you are curious about Local-First, check out these resources: - localfirstweb.dev - localfirst.fm And give Prisma a try: github.com/prisma/react-n…
Ephemeral databases is an interesting concept I heard at @smalldatasf. For example, when you use AI to generate apps, you iterate a lot. Having a database per iteration simplifies the process. Same with previews for pull requests. (Great fit for what I am working on too.)
Harnessing AI for Relational Data - we're hosting a #SFTechWeek event on the evening of Thursday Oct 10th with leading innovators from CWI, Numbers Station, Stanford, Cal, Kumo AI and more. Structured data like tables and relational data is important to enterprises, but how is…