NYT writing about how The Stranger became a political powerhouse without talking to @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @joshfeit.bsky.social or @mudede.bsky.social is extreme journalistic malpractice. Before they came along, it was a nightlife weekly with funny sex advice

reposting an old blog post because I think it's cool: every red light that I pulled up to while on a bike ride in September 2022.

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see ya there!

Gmail used to say I had (100+) e-mail messages. Now it says (23,437). 🥲

We're hiring for a senior engineer on the Power BI Core Visuals team! Please apply if you're interested, or let me know if you have any clarifying questions :)

jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

hit and runs are stupid, doubly stupid when it happens to family. If you can support, please do: gofund.me/cf3a464f

I'm excited to note that we released a feature recently that tries to clarify why certain fields can't be used in field wells and conditional formatting sources while editing a Power BI report. Hopefully it helps report authors :D #powerbi #pbicorevisuals

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The inaugural Seattle Visualization Day is happening this Friday at UW. I'll be there talking about our intent-driven visualization design that we're working on!

More info about the event here: idl.uw.edu/vis-day

With tax day coming up on April 15, we want to make sure our community knows about IRS Direct File. It’s a free option for filing a federal tax return, and you can learn more about it at DirectFile.irs.gov.

Goin' live soon to talk about the Core Visuals roadmap! #powerbi #pbicorevisuals
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The only year-in-review from an organization worth posting... THANKS FOR THE JAMS!! @c895radio.bsky.social

(from our PM on Twitter)
Hey Power BI community!

The Core Visuals Vision Board, your new resource for Power BI. Explore, vote, comment on Epic Ideas to shape our future. Instant visibility into what's completed, in progress, and upcoming.

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The "trip" reports to the big data vis conference are tricklin' in. Check out Michael Correll's recap below!

My brother's business is having a grand opening party next Saturday, Nov 16th in (greater) Seattle and we'd love to have ya! Just next to Third Place Books in LFP, it's great to have a computer store open up in Seattle :)

(yes, there's a PC giveaway)

seattlebuilt.com/store/

Hi new website! I'm Alper and I work on the Power BI Core Visuals team as an software engineer at Microsoft. I try to bridge the gap between research and practice in driving effective visualization authoring and consumption experiences for people of varying data and visual fluency.