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Jul 25, 2025

Creating a production-ready data pipeline with Apache Airflow and BigFrames

In this post, I build a data pipeline in Python to ingest US Census data into BigQuery tables, using Apache Airflow and BigQuery DataFrames…

A panda flying a blue airplane branded as BigQuery DataFrames with a futuristic eco-city behind and a giant rainbow colored fan branded as Apache Airflow.

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Mar 22, 2025

The Story Behind Overcast Data: How Historical Weather Insights Can Transform Your Plans

It all started with a simple question from my wife: “What will the weather be like on our wedding day?” We were planning our wedding at…

wedding rings over a canyon on a chart with a pencil and a weather vane in the backyard.

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Mar 12, 2025

Introducing partial ordering mode for BigQuery DataFrames (bigframes)

Set the bigframes.pandas.options.bigquery.ordering_mode = "partial" option to prevent BigQuery DataFrames from creating a deterministic…

Introducing partial ordering mode for BigQuery DataFrames (bigframes)

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May 14, 2021

Effective Beginner-Friendly Messaging for Dweb

In our session at Offline Camp 2019, we identified several problems with how the dweb is presented. Documentation often focuses on…

How to make Dweb accessible to beginners? (Image source: element5digital on unsplash)

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Dec 16, 2019

90s Aesthetics in Modern Tech

Approaching a blank canvas, 16x16 pixels at a time

90s Aesthetics in Modern Tech

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Jul 29, 2019

Announcing google-cloud-bigquery Version 1.17.0

BigQuery results to DataFrame 31x Faster, powered by Apache Arrow.

Announcing google-cloud-bigquery Version 1.17.0

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Dec 30, 2018

Pixel Art Park 5 — An Attendee’s Review

Alexandra and I attended Pixel Art Park 5 in Tokyo on December 9, 2018. I loved seeing so many pixel art pieces, chiptunes, and…

Pixel Art Park 5 — An Attendee’s Review

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Dec 2, 2018

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Nov 8, 2018

Reflections on #octobit 2018

an outer space collage of pixel art

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Nov 5, 2018

Grey, you will be missed. Rest in peace.

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Tim Swena (Swast)

Tim Swena (Swast)

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I code and draw pixel art. Software developer @googlecloud Views expressed here are my own. Homepage: https://www.timswast.com/

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