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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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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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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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Christopher Durow
Microsoft Agent Framework: Why composability actually matters this...
Introduction Microsoft just dropped the Agent Framework, and honestly, my first reaction was...

13th October, 2025

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Luke Menzies
Chunk Tastic! Chunking Strategies for RAG
In the ever-evolving world of Generative AI (Gen AI), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has...

17th September, 2025

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James Bentley
MCP: Make A Game Changing API For Your AI
Introduction If you’ve been working in the world of Generative AI for any amount of time, you...

5th August, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Beyond Dashboards: How Conversational AI is Transforming Analytics
Despite billions invested in data infrastructure, most organisations still struggle with a...

25th July, 2025

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Smarter Supply Chains Start Here: The Data Product Advantage
Despite years of progress, the gap between data collection and actionable insights remains a...

9th May, 2025

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Agentic Audio Insurance Claims Assistant
Introduction Insurance claim processing is often burdened by slow, manual steps that frustrate...

22nd April, 2025

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Answering the call: Learning and Growing with LLMs
Introduction The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT over the last few years...

21st March, 2025

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