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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.

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.

The Dashboard You Built That Nobody Opens

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a hard truth hiding in your analytics platform. Let me show you how to find it.

Open your BI tool. Look at the list of dashboards. Find the one that took you — or someone on your team — two weeks to build. The one with the carefully color-coded KPI tiles, the year-over-year comparisons, the trend lines going back 18 months.