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Jun 1
Escaping the Valley of Choice in BI
Why Agentic BI threatens an entire profession The post Escaping the Valley of Choice in BI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
BI Is Dead, Long Live BI
The true bottleneck was never the analysis. The post BI Is Dead, Long Live BI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jul 17
A Production RAG Pipeline in Action: Every Answer Typed and Cited
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9B] - One call wires the four upgraded bricks together, run on a paper, a NIST standard, and a report with a broken TOC The post A Production RAG Pipeline in Action: Every Answer Typed and Cited appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jul 17
One RAG Pipeline, Four Very Different PDFs: Same Four Bricks, Every Answer Typed and Cited
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #9B] - One call wires the four upgraded bricks together, run on a paper, a NIST standard, and a report with a broken TOC The post One RAG Pipeline, Four Very Different PDFs: Same Four Bricks, Every Answer Typed and Cited appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jun 3
I Spent May Evaluating Different Engines for OCR
Testing fourteen engines on ninety-three human documents The post I Spent May Evaluating Different Engines for OCR appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jun 2
Code Is Cheap. Engineering Judgement Is Now the Scarce Resource
The barriers to building have collapsed. That shifts the bottleneck to ownership, validation, taste, and deciding what should actually exist The post Code Is Cheap.
Towards Data Science
Jul 14
How I’m Making Sure My Analytics Career Doesn’t Get Eaten by AI
The analytics career I signed up for five years ago doesn't exist anymore, and honestly, I am fine with that. The post How I’m Making Sure My Analytics Career Doesn’t Get Eaten by AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in 2026
How AI has massively changed my day-to-day workflow The post A Day in the Life of a Data Scientist in 2026 appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jul 12
RAG vs Fine-Tuning Explained: What They Actually Do and When to Use Each
Two techniques, two different problems, and why the question is not really "which one wins" The post RAG vs Fine-Tuning Explained: What They Actually Do and When to Use Each appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Aug 6
Loop Engineering for Cross-References: When RAG Answers ‘see Section 7.2’ Instead of the Actual Answer
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #11] - When the first answer points elsewhere in the document, the pipeline loops back to fetch the linked context The post Loop Engineering for Cross-References: When RAG Answers ‘see Section 7.
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Jul 23
When Data Science Makes Us Sad: The Story of an Overbooked Flight
$8 million vs $5k + Potentially Going Viral The post When Data Science Makes Us Sad: The Story of an Overbooked Flight appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Jul 3
The Untaught Lessons of RAG Retrieval: Cosine Is Not the Foundation
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #7ter] - Six positions on the retrieval brick that contradict the cosine-first reflex of mainstream RAG The post The Untaught Lessons of RAG Retrieval: Cosine Is Not the Foundation appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Aug 7
The Problem with pandas Isn’t Performance. It’s Cognitive Overhead.
Faster dataframe engines are nice, but they don't reduce the amount of syntax an analyst has to hold in their head. The post The Problem with pandas Isn’t Performance.