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Welcome to the Advancing Analytics blog. We’re a bunch of data and AI specialists who build modern platforms and make messy data behave.

You'll find a trove of posts and video here, focused on AI and machine learning, data engineering and analytics. Our blogs are all based on what we’re seeing in the real world - with lessons learned from the sharp end of delivery. 

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Luke Menzies
Claude Code, properly: the habits that actually move the needle
A lot of people first meet Claude Code as a coding assistant in the terminal. Useful, yes, but...

11th August, 2026

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Ust Oldfield
Off the Scale: Using (& Abusing) Custom Viz in Databricks AI/BI
It started with a challenge and a competition. “A pair of FishFlops for the first person that...

4th August, 2026

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Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
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Chris Williams
Disability Pride 2026: Disabled Leaders, Shaping What's Next
This is part 3 of 3 in our Disability Pride Month series. "Disability Pride Month 2026: Where...

29th July, 2026

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Luke Menzies
Everything You Need to Know About Multimodal Embedding within...
Introduction Generative AI has quickly become a core pillar of the modern data landscape. Over...

28th July, 2026

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AI Data Science Generative AI LLM AgentOps AI Agents
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James Bentley
From Graphs to Grandeur: Deploying Agents as Databricks Served...
So, you’ve made an agent - congratulations! You’ve wrestled with edges and nodes, stitched...

24th July, 2026

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Lucy Bellingham
Disability Pride Month 2026: The Dropped Kerb Effect
July is Disability Pride Month, and to celebrate this we are releasing a series of blogs on...

20th July, 2026

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Simon Whiteley
Postgres to Databricks Lakebase: find the risks before you migrate
Prefer to watch this in video form? Check out the YouTube version. Introduction Moving an...

15th July, 2026

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James Bentley
You’ve Been Served: Deploying Agentic AI the Right Way
Agentic AI is has come a long way in the past few years. LangGraph, tool calling, retrieval,...

14th July, 2026

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George Dutton
Disability Pride Month 2026: Where did it all begin?
Introduction At Advancing Analytics we have several networks for those with protected...

8th July, 2026

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Tori Tompkins
Unity AI Gateway Just Got Serious: The DAIS 2026 Roundup
Wow! The Data and AI Summit 2026 introduced so many monumental announcements for AI in...

3rd July, 2026

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