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Michael #1: Briefer: Dashboards and notebooks in a single place

Notebooks and dashboards with Python, SQL, scheduling, native visualizations, code generation, and more.
In Briefer, you can:
- Create notebooks and dashboards using Markdown, Python, SQL, and native visualizations.
- Build interactive data apps using inputs, dropdowns, and date pickers.
- Generate code and queries using an AI that understands your database schema and your notebook's context.
- Schedule notebooks and dashboards to run and update periodically.
- Create and test ad-hoc pipelines using writebacks.
Briefer vs. Traditional BI Tools: Briefer is better than traditional BI tools because it's faster and more flexible, thanks to Python.
Briefer vs. Traditional Notebooks: In Briefer, you can run SQL queries against connected data sources directly in your notebook. Then, Briefer will automatically turn your query into a data frame and store it in a variable that you can use in your Python blocks.

Brian #2: Introduction to programming with Python

Jose Blanca
- “Python intro aimed at students with no prior programming experience.”
- “Relies mainly on examples and exercises.”
- “Does not try to cover every detail of the Python language, but just what a beginner might need to start the journey.”
- Tech: “… built with the quarto publishing system complemented by the quarto live extension that allows Python to run in the web browser by using pyodide.”
Runs on anything, since it doesn’t require a local install of Python
Running 3.12.1, looks like. Although that’s a bit hidden. Seems like it should be more visible.

Michael #3: setup-uv

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of uv
Install a version of uv and add it to PATH
Cache the installed version of uv to speed up consecutive runs on self-hosted runners
Register problem matchers for error output
(Optional) Persist the uv's cache in the GitHub Actions Cache
(Optional) Verify the checksum of the downloaded uv executable

Brian #4: HTML for people

Extras

Michael:

Joke: So much O’Really

#405 Oh Really?

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