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7/14/2026 - Opinion: The real value of AI is through the programmers... oh and the AI bubble is likely to crash

I love AI. I use it every day. But I'm going to say something that would get me escorted out of most venture capital offices: the only place AI has truly delivered productivity is in creating tools , specifically, in coding. Before you fire up your keyboard to disagree, let's first agree on what productivity actually means. Because that word gets thrown around a lot, usually right before someone asks you for money...

8/1/2025 - Build Your Own Free Personal Data Warehouse with AI & Blazor Hybrid & No Cloud Needed!

Tired of paying for cloud compute just to view your own data? Discover how to build a completely free, open-source personal data warehouse that runs entirely on your machine using Blazor Hybrid and .NET technologies. In this talk, Microsoft MVP Michael Washington shows how to: – Import data from Excel, CSV, SQL Server, and Microsoft Fabric – Use AI-powered Python/C# code for advanced data transformations – Generate SSRS-style reports – no cloud required – Leverage local compute power t

6/7/2025 - Quick Start (Personal Data Warehouse)

See the video at: Personal Data Warehouse: QuickStart This tutorial demonstrates how to import multiple Excel files into the Personal Data Warehouse , join the data using a view , and create a report . To begin, download and save the following sample files: AcmeCustomers.xlsx AcmeSales.xlsx Create the Database Note: For installation and upgrade details, see Installing and Upgrading . It's recommended to create separate databases for each project. This makes

3/24/2025 - What Is Data?

BlazorData.Net aims to provide tools that empower users to import, export, manipulate, and present data effectively. At first glance, the concept of data might seem obvious, but understanding it thoroughly is essential to grasp why these tools are needed and how they are used. Data Is Not the Thing – The Thing Is the Thing The most important concept to understand is that data is not a "thing"—it merely represents a "thing." For example, if you have a list of all your

1/12/2025 - Using Blazor and OpenAI to Create and Display KQL Queries

BlazorData.net made a recent contribution to a Github project that contains code that will be incorporated into a future version on BlazorData.net . The Github project is kusto-loco and it provides an API that allows you to use Kusto Query Language (KQL) to create visualizations. However, KQL can be hard to learn, so the contribution that BlazorData.net made was to incorporate OpenAI to help you create the KQL to create the visualizations. The code is av