Who would have thought, a zk evening in Andorra.
05.03.2026 18:15
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Who would have thought, a zk evening in Andorra.
Another week of growth, +3 billion new rows covering sports analytics, disaster response, and public health.
Platform Scale
- Rows: 407.8B (+3B)
- Tables: 439,321 (+898)
- Datasets: 68,898 (+382)
Highlights
- Ultimate Soccer Dataset expansion
- FEMA
- CDC / ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI)
We’ve just crossed another major milestone in our mission to organize the world’s structured data.
This week’s scale:
• 400.9 billion rows (+5B)
• 437,747 tables (+1K)
• 68,445 datasets (+272)
We also added the EU Funding & Tenders Portal - making funding and research data more accessible.
Baselight went from zero to 431K tables in its first year.
That growth matters less for the number than for what it represents: broad, actionable coverage across sports, finance, macro, public policy, healthcare, climate, demographics, blockchains, and research.
Baselight weekly update:
• Datasets: 65,759 (▲ +295)
• Tables: 323,977 (▲ +450)
• Storage: 73 TB (▲ +2TB)
New high-impact data now live:
• BLS: official labor & inflation stats
• United For ALICE: households struggling above poverty
• HRSA: healthcare access
Focused on high-value, query-ready data
Why use Baselight for sports betting when you can use it for epidemiology?
Can't help but admire @karolnawrockipl.bsky.social's optimism in the face of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasio...
Still 12 hours left to join our Product Hunt launch. Give Baselight AI a spin and leave your feedback!
www.producthunt.com/products/bas...
Finding it hard to analyze data with SQL? That changes today with Baselight AI, your data analyst copilot!
Baselight AI lets you extract insights from Baselight datasets (and your own uploads!), audit reasoning, and verify the data used to reach conclusions.
We're launching today on Product Hunt!
The European Blockchain Convention is almost here, and @adlrocha.bsky.social and I will be there showing off @baselightdb.bsky.social. If you're in Barcelona, come say hi!
Not only is staff at my hotel excellent, they're also hilarious: at breakfast this morning, someone asked if I wanted to sit outside. #ThisIsSG
Singapore with half the temperature and half the cars would be heaven. But I'd settle for good bread and Google mapping the underpass network. #token2049
Did not predict I would witness Gilead come into being.
We don't make data-driven decisions; we make data-driving decisions.
And that's why @baselightdb.bsky.social datasets have road rage.
The UX could be a bit more intuitive, and some of the questions could be better, but these are the outcome of a two-line prompt (!). One can always ask Claude to fine tune both the content and the interface.
And here is one for open-source software facts, using information from, inter alia, github and package managers.
claude.ai/public/artif...
Sample prompt: "Can you make a credence calibration game based on engineering projects? Use Baselight and pick questions about cost, time to build, weight, manpower, height, etc."
claude.ai/public/artif...
I've been using the Credence Calibration Game as both a team icebreaker and roadmapping prep (shoutout to @miyazono.bsky.social for showing it to me!). However, the tooling sucked. Now, I rely on @baselightdb.bsky.social and Claude to create context-specific sets of questions, and it's fantastic.
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests?
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku)
One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested. Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away. House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.” Extinction Rebellion: how successful were the latest protests? Read more House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”
This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".
Another way to read this chart is "how many people can reach city X by train in less than 2h". But Brussels is on the list and no one in their right mind would travel in that direction, so I'll stick to the alternative interpretation.
Want to draw your own insights? Check the data for your country? Use a different metric? You can now fork and modify Baselight queries. Start here: baselight.app/u/jsoares/qu...
And then there's Paris. It's a curious one, as the only listed major metropolis with a reachability ratio of less than 1, i.e. the surrounding reachable population is smaller than that of the city itself. Lower ratios are expected for larger cities, but compare London.
How do we measure this? Turns out @ec.europa.eu collected data on the time it took to travel between rail-connected city pairs, and the data is on @baselightdb.bsky.social. We're restricting our ranking to those reachable in under 2h, as it's just a weekend after all.
The weekend is here! If you live near a 🚅 station, you get to take a weekend trip in style. But how much can you see? Quite a bit if you're in 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, or Benelux; this is where some of the best connected cities in Europe lie.
We hit the stage at @coindesk.com PitchFest to share why the future of data is decentralized, composable, and open.
Baselight enables true data ownership by allowing data providers to own, query, and monetize their structured data.
Take a look at our Consensus pitch below👇
youtu.be/Wqm2QHh4psA
When the Napalm Girl photo showed a child fleeing napalm in Vietnam, it fueled outrage and changed history. Today, the world watches Palestinian children burn on live stream as Israel’s final solution unfolds in Gaza, yet the west remains silent, inept, and indifferent.
Made it to Toronto for Consensus 2025. We'll be pitching Baselight on Thursday at 1630; come by if you're around! Can't promise much, but can promise 3 brilliant minutes from @elreydetent.bsky.social and a cool @baselightdb.bsky.social shirt (while stocks last!).
Also, the usual shameless plug: @baselightdb.bsky.social is the place for all your data needs!
baselight.app/u/jsoares/qu...
We were all in different places at the time, and only managed to establish contact with everyone 6 hours later. Seriously considering getting everyone Thuraya satphones or Starlink Roam. Any suggestions, given sporadic emergency use only?
