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Blogs by ust oldfield

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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Recent Blogs

Data Products: Fuelling Finance's Transformation Through Curation and...
Remember when financial data was locked away in dusty ledgers and arcane systems? Those days...
Unlocking the True Value of Data: Applying Economic Theories to Data
In this blog post, we delve into the economic principles that can help quantify the value of...
Partnering with dbt Labs: enhancing our analytical engineering...
Advancing Analytics are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with dbt Labs, the company...
How to Achieve Perfect Sprint Planning
This title is a misnomer as perfection is a fallacy, and there’s no such thing as perfect. So...
Bringing Fabric to your Data Lakehouse
We've built countless Lakehouses for our customers and influenced the design of many more....
Seeding Files With dbt
File seeding is a useful way of maintaining and deploying static, or very slowly changing,...
Getting Started with dbt
What is dbt? dbt is an abbreviation for data build tools. It is primarily a SQL based...
Introduction to Analytics Engineering
Analytics Engineering is a relatively new term in the world of data, having been pioneered by...
Sustainability Reporting Accelerator
Social expectations of businesses and industries are increasing—in relation to Environment,...
Why Data Quality is Important
Data is among the most valuable assets for any organisation. Without data, the ability to make...
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