Analysis
Your Semantic Layer Alone Is Not Ready for Agentic Analytics
Classic analytics needs definitions. Conversational analytics needs a human in the loop. Agentic analytics needs decision fitness: the definitions, assumptions, owners, constraints, provenance, and stop conditions that tell an agent when a number is safe to act on.
Practical resource
Improving Accuracy and Trust in Agentic Analytics
Semantic layers improve accuracy. Semantic lineage earns trust. Cube held an event this week and a lot of emphasis was on agentic analytics. One session that stood out for me
Practical resource
The Newsroom I Built on Top of My Data Pipeline
The Data Report is my weekly roundup of what's moving in the data practitioner's market. What vendors are shipping, what practitioners are arguing about, what'
Investigation
Data Stack Tools Are Shipping Their Own Agent Context. I Tested Dagster's.
Tools in the data stack have always shipped docs, examples, and best practices. What’s changing is the packaging. Dagster, for one, now ships a Claude Code plugin with four
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