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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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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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James Bentley
Genie in a Bundle: Deploying Databricks Genie Spaces With DABs
Introduction Genie Spaces have quietly become one of the most useful things you can put in...

16th June, 2026

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Ust Oldfield
Genie Is a Semantic Layer Problem, Not a Chat Problem
I've been setting up Genie spaces for clients, and the conversations always start in the same...

27th April, 2026

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Cem Zekai
Insurance Distribution Just Changed. Most Carriers Weren't in the...
A consumer is asking ChatGPT which home insurance to buy, where to get the cheapest car...

22nd April, 2026

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Gavita Regunath
My Top 10 AI Predictions in Insurance for 2026
If your GenAI programme is a chat tab people copy and paste into, you haven’t changed the...

13th January, 2026

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Mike Howarth
Why we ran an AI-BI Hackathon - and how to create your own
Why Run an AI-BI Hackathon? At Advancing Analytics, we believe that the best ideas are born...

5th January, 2026

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Toyosi Babayeju
Intelligent Pricing Model: Powered by ML, Guided by GenAI
Introduction Assessing an individual’s creditworthiness has always relied on a complex blend...

18th December, 2025

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Tom Radburn
How Advancing Analytics is Transforming Customer Service
How Advancing Analytics’ “Analytics Support” Is Transforming Customer Service Imagine...

1st December, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Tags as AI Labels: Why Generative AI Needs Metadata It Can Trust
Generative AI systems, especially those using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), depend not...

22nd November, 2025

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Dean Kennedy
Prompt Optimisation: An Introduction to DSPy
What is Prompt Optimisation? Prompt optimisation is the process of systematically improving...

24th October, 2025

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