Analytics

R language is making a comeback – Tiobe

Tiobe index of programming language popularity index has the R language for statistical computin back in its top 10.

By Paul Krill

Dec 8, 20253 mins

Data SciencePythonR Language

Google BigQuery gets managed AI functions to simplify unstructured data analysis

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 14, 20254 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Snowflake to acquire Datometry to bolster its automated migration tools

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 11, 20253 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceData Warehousing

Articles

What is generative AI? How artificial intelligence creates content

Generative AI models can carry on conversations, answer questions, write stories, produce source code, and create images and videos of almost any description. Here's how generative AI works, how it's being used, and why it’s more limited than you might think.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Nov 7, 2025 13 mins

Data ScienceGenerative AITechnology Industry

Was data mesh just a fad?

The data mesh architecture promised to eliminate the inefficiencies and errors of the data lake. What went wrong?

By Nidhin Ponon

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsBig DataData Architecture

Implementing predictive monitoring with AIOps

AIOps isn’t just a buzzword — it helps teams predict issues before they happen and fix them automatically with smart, connected monitoring.

By Sopuluchukwu Ani

Oct 20, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsHybrid CloudPredictive Analytics

How to run an R data visualization chatbot you can talk to

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data.

By Sharon Machlis

Oct 16, 2025 8 mins

Generative AIProgramming LanguagesR Language

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

7 newer data science tools you should be using with Python

Already using NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn? Here are seven more powerful data wrangling tools that deserve a place in your toolkit.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 15, 2025 8 mins

Data ScienceDevelopment ToolsPython

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

The new lakehouse offering marks a significant change in Oracle’s strategy, with the vendor moving from a single-cloud model to recognizing enterprises’ need for flexibility across platforms, analysts say.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Oct 14, 2025 5 mins

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence

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