This week in AI: Four stories that should concern you (but probably won’t)
Robots, revenue projections, and one guy who used Claude to outsmart his mom’s doctors. Totally not made up.
PepsiCo Owns Less Than Half of Its Drink Portfolio
The thing about data is it can tell a story. You can say that the PepsiCo drink portfolio is not completely owned by the company itself. And, that’s true. But there’s a lot more to…
How important is velveeta?
And if you’ve made it this far, here’s Nic Cage eating a bowl of warm Velveeta.
JAB Holding Company: The Investment Empire Behind Dr Pepper
JAB’s combined portfolio generates an estimated $40+ billion in annual revenues, making it one of the most influential, yet least recognized, forces in global consumer goods.
How Many brands Does PepsiCo Own?
PepsiCo’s portfolio tells a story not just of a beverage giant, but of a company that has spent sixty years systematically buying, partnering, and investing its way into virtually every corner of the snack and…
Tennessee vs Iowa State: March Madness Showdown History
Here’s a Claude Cowork dashboard I created looking at the history of the Vols under Rick Barnes during the Final Four tournament. For comparison sake, I’ve created one for Iowa State. I’ll wait to the…
Top Companies Laying Off Workers in 2026
In my efforts to learn how to use Claude Cowork and code, I’ve created a dynamic dashboard centered around the 2026 planned layoffs.
Fast Food Chains Closing in 2026: Trends and Insights
Brands like Wendy’s (~320 closures) and Pizza Hut (~250) aren’t collapsing, they’re pruning. Underperforming locations are being cut so the rest of the business can run leaner and more efficiently. Fast food, in particular, looks…
Predicting March Madness Seeding Victories with Tableau
There’s something delightfully absurd about learning a serious analytics tool and immediately using it to answer the most important question in college basketball: Who actually wins this thing?
Predicting March Madness with Tableau
I built a chart looking at Final Four appearances by conference from 2005 to 2024, and the picture it paints is less Cinderella and more private members club. Just understand that somewhere in the background,…
Tableau Exercise – Super Bowl 2026 – Ads by Quarter and Category
I built a dataset tracking the commercials and categorized them, then plotted them in Tableau to see how the advertising ecosystem unfolds during the game. Once the chart is built, the broadcast starts to look…
Big Iron, Badlands, and a Dog Worth Following Into the Wasteland
There’s a moment in Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 when the needle drops on “Big Iron” by Marty Robbins—and you can feel it in your bones.