Analytics

Improving annotation quality with machine learning

Treating annotation as a data understanding problem, rather than a labeling workflow challenge, can systematically drive down error rates and reduce the time and cost of producing high-quality data sets.

By Nick Lotz

Nov 20, 20259 mins

Data EngineeringGenerative AIMachine Learning

Google BigQuery gets managed AI functions to simplify unstructured data analysis

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 14, 20254 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Oracle debuts Iceberg-compatible Autonomous AI Lakehouse to boost enterprise analytics

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 14, 20255 mins

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence

Articles

Why observability needs Apache Iceberg

Your telemetry data and business data don’t have to lead separate lives. Iceberg unlocks the value of logs, metrics, and traces by making them durable, queryable, and shareable at enterprise scale.

By Jacob Leverich

Oct 2, 2025 6 mins

Big DataBusiness IntelligenceData Architecture

The best new features in Postgres 18

Asynchronous I/O, OAuth authentication, expanded SQL standards support, and new extension capabilities give developers faster performance, stronger security, and greater flexibility.

By Tom Kincaid

Sep 25, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsData ManagementDatabases

Do vector-native databases beat add-ons for AI applications?

Even though traditional databases now support vector types, vector-native databases have the edge for AI development. Here’s how to choose.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Sep 22, 2025 10 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesGenerative AI

How AI changes the data analyst role

Rather than spending their time executing manual queries, data analysts will increasingly operate like AI engineers—reviewing, refining, and validating AI-generated outputs.

By Carl Perry

Sep 19, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsCareers

Building an analytics architecture for unstructured data and multimodal AI

Discover best practices that allow data pipelines to scale and support both structured and unstructured data.

By Ganesh Kumar Gella, Sr. Director, Engineering, Google BigQuery Generative AI Initiatives

Jun 11, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceBig Data

Databricks adds Data Science Agent to automate analytics tasks

The new agent upgrades the Databricks Assistant, enabling it to help data practitioners complete repetitive tasks and troubleshoot errors.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Sep 5, 2025 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData ScienceGenerative AI

Databot: AI-assisted data analysis in R or Python

Databot is an experimental alternative to querychat that works with R or Python. And it’s now available as an add-on for the Positron IDE.

By Sharon Machlis

Sep 4, 2025 4 mins

Data SciencePythonR Language

Using Cosmos DB in Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft’s flagship cloud-native database is now ready for analysis at scale, ideal for enterprise AI applications.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 28, 2025 7 mins

Big DataCloud-NativeDatabases

From Teradata to lakehouse: Lessons from a real-world data platform modernization

Still stuck in legacy warehouses? This pharma leader shows how a Databricks lakehouse can turn compliance hurdles into a growth engine.

By Rama Devi Drakshpalli

Aug 28, 2025 11 mins

Data ArchitectureData ManagementData Warehousing

Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to drive agentic AI

The new data lakehouse is billed as a single platform for multiple use cases including transactional, agentic, decision support, model training and tuning, and more.

By Lynn Greiner

Aug 26, 2025 4 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Databricks buys Tecton to give context to AI agents

The acquisition will enable enterprises to build agents that can leverage real-time data to make better decisions while acting autonomously, the company said.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Aug 25, 2025 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Why AI fails at business context, and what to do about it

AI systems need humans to guide them with the unique enterprise history, policies, changes, and institutional knowledge before they can produce real business value.

By Matt Asay

Aug 18, 2025 8 mins

AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceGenerative AI