Author
Olivier Dupuis
Exploring data engineering, AI, and public discourse through creative projects at RepublicOfData.io.
Market intelligence
dbt v2: ten years from SQL tool to data platform
dbt v2 is here, ten years after the first releases. I revisit that history to put the latest announcements in perspective, examine dbt and Fivetran’s expanding role in the data stack, and question how they plan to build the context agents need.
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'