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The Data Analyst's Survival Guide to the Agentic Era

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I need to say something that makes some data analysts uncomfortable: the job is changing. Not disappearing — changing. And the analysts who understand the change will thrive. The ones who don’t will spend the next five years fighting it.

Open Source Won the AI Agent War — Here's What That Means for Data Teams

Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In January 2024, Hugging Face published a benchmark that most people in the data world missed. They compared open-source LLMs against GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 on agent tasks — using a dataset that requires web search and calculator use, the fundamentals of any analytics agent.

The Berkeley AI Lab Figured Out Why Analytics Agents Work (And It's Not About AI)

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In February 2024, the Berkeley AI Research Lab published a paper that quietly explained everything. Not “how to build AI” — but why the move from single LLM calls to multi-component systems is inevitable. And once you read it, you see analytics differently.

What Meta's Data Warehouse AI Taught Me About Building Analytics Agents

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In August 2025, Meta published an engineering blog post that changed how I think about analytics agents. It’s called “Creating AI Agent Solutions for Warehouse Data Access and Security,” and it describes a multi-agent system they built for their internal data warehouse.