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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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Martin McMillan
Who Gets to Plant in the Gold Layer?
A well-built Gold layer should be the first place we look for an answer. Agreed definitions,...

2nd November, 2026

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Ust Oldfield
After the Standing Ovation: The Topology of Productionising Built-On...
A while ago I wrote about a Built-On Databricks prototype: a multi-tenant analytics product...

23rd October, 2026

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Dave Paley
The Biggest Barrier to Better Public Services isn't AI. It's the...
Public services do not have a data shortage, or an AI shortage. They have a data integration...

15th October, 2026

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Dave Paley
AI Won't Fix Government; Better Foundations Will. 5 Key Principles to...
Government doesn't have a data problem. It has a foundations problem. Until that's fixed, AI,...

13th October, 2026

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Toyosi Babayeju
AI Agents Expose What Your Data Platform Never Captured
Introduction Enterprise data architectures were designed around a single, comfortable...

11th September, 2026

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Ust Oldfield
Platforms Don't Make Money. Products Do.
Why Data as a Product Has Become a Board-Level Conversation Over the past decade, enterprises...

27th August, 2026

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Ust Oldfield
Tagging is Metadata’s Metadata: Why Good Tags Matter
What Are Tags, Really? Tags are often dismissed as technical conveniences — tiny labels stuck...

29th October, 2025

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Toyosi Babayeju
Why Databricks is the Leading Platform in the AI Era
How Databricks Saw the AI Future Coming Databricks didn’t stumble into GenAI, it engineered...

17th October, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Your Data Governance Is Failing. The Catalyst Framework Can Help You...
Many organisations invest heavily in data infrastructure, analytics platforms, and AI...

29th September, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Why Your Databricks Metrics Views and Power BI Aren't Seeing...
Databricks is rapidly changing how organisations manage data and analytics. At the Data and AI...

17th July, 2025

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