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Day: August 8, 2025

Time Series Feature Engineering in Pandas

Published 2025-08-08 by Kevin Feasel

Matthew Mayo knows that time is a flat circle:

Feature engineering is one of the most important steps when it comes to building effective machine learning models, and this is no less important when dealing with time-series data. By being able to create meaningful features from temporal data, you can unlock predictive power that is unavailable when applied to raw timestamps alone.

Fortunately for us all, Pandas offers a powerful and flexible set of operations for manipulating and creating time-series features.

Click through for seven things you can do in Pandas to extend or work with time series data.

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Tips for Troubleshooting PostgreSQL Performance Slowdowns

Published 2025-08-08 by Kevin Feasel

Umair Shahid shares a few tips with us:

If you are a technology leader overseeing a team of developers who manage PostgreSQL as part of a broader application stack, or you are responsible for uptime and customer satisfaction at scale, knowing where to look first can make all the difference.

Let us walk through a focused checklist of patterns and places that commonly hold the key to unlocking better PostgreSQL performance.

This is a very high-level set of reminders regarding where you should look, rather than a detailed troubleshooting guide. But sometimes, it’s good to have that reminder.

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Digging Further into RTABench Q0 Optimization on PostgreSQL

Published 2025-08-08 by Kevin Feasel

Andrei Lepikhov responds to feedback:

In the previous post, I explored some nuances of Postgres related to indexes and parallel workers. This text sparked a lively discussion on LinkedIn, during which one commentator (thanks to Ants Aasma) proposed an index that was significantly more efficient than those discussed in the article. However, an automated comparison of EXPLAINs did not clarify the reasons for its superiority, necessitating further investigation.

Click through for the index and what Andrei learned along the way.

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Tips for Working with Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft Fabric

Published 2025-08-08 by Kevin Feasel

Reitse Eskens shares some tips:

When discussing options, possibilities, and solutions with customers, the Real-Time stack began to emerge. We received questions on ingestion that couldn’t be simply answered using batch processing. The best part is that we can start learning new technology!

The following blog will outline the best things I learned working with real-time analytics.

Click through for those items.

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Moving Items around in Power BI

Published 2025-08-08 by Kevin Feasel

Reza Rad sends this item to the back of the line:

When you have multiple items overlapping, you often need the feature to bring one forward or move it backward. In Power BI, this feature isn’t available by right-click. Instead, there is a Selection pane where you can easily set the order of elements. The selection pane also has other benefits. In this article and video, you will learn how to use the Selection pane to build the right order for your visuals.

Read on to see how it works.

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