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Jacob Matson
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excel lover & data enthusiast.

writing at dataduel.co
working at motherduck.com
Finally implemented nfl tiebreakers in mdsinabox.com - so now teams have a much better outlook on playoff seeding. To wit: the Atlanta falcons

mdsinabox.com/nfl/teams/At...
August 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I've been screwing around with evals - here is my first one!

I know many of you are AI haters but its here and its real.

For this case I've looking at speed, accuracy and cost for solving hard NYT connections.

GitHub repo: github.com/matsonj/eval...
August 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
NFL season update on www.mdsinabox.com/nfl
May 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
this is the future they want for you
April 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
but hey at least I have the right outcomes in here now
April 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
fooling around with some nba dataviz (cc @aaronblackshear.bsky.social )
March 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
how it feels to use @duckdb.org
February 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Today in “cursed workflows”, you can connect to rest end points with Power BI which means you can serve DuckDB requests to it, no odbc required!
January 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I think it was always there, just modify the tailwind.config.js file.
January 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Marveling at how nice the new theme looks over on www.mdsinabox.com/nba/teams/LAC/
January 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Who else out here thinking about WASM
December 30, 2024 at 1:23 AM
the above the fold page load is so clean!

extremely tiny nit - the link to Codepen shows an underlined space.
December 21, 2024 at 6:46 PM
a fun friday treat for the holidays (compete to win prizes)

game.motherduck.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:59 PM
me today
December 18, 2024 at 10:24 PM
you can always use DuckDB to make your R even faster.

blog.stephenturner.us/p/duckdb-vs-...
December 18, 2024 at 1:03 AM
hell yeah brother
December 17, 2024 at 5:25 PM
no need
December 16, 2024 at 11:55 PM
hmmm might be slightly too minimalistic
December 13, 2024 at 8:46 PM
fooling around with new themes on mdsinabox.com. trying to evoke looking at the sports page late 90s in the seattle times...
December 13, 2024 at 7:56 PM
i've changed the colors to make it a bit more obvious but its looking like they are landing in the play-in.

really big spread between 5 and 7 seeds in the east
December 13, 2024 at 6:36 PM
dark mode on @evidence.dev! lets go!!
December 12, 2024 at 4:20 PM
they are doing just about as well as expected...

mdsinabox.com/nba/teams/ATL/
December 11, 2024 at 6:43 PM
good to see even state reps are shitposters now
December 11, 2024 at 6:14 PM
December 10, 2024 at 2:45 AM
December 10, 2024 at 1:54 AM