Data Analysts

Producing the analysis is the part that automates

Agents now write the SQL, run the notebook and draft the chart. The analysts in demand frame the question, test the answer and stand behind the decision.

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The shift

What's changing, and how

10 → 3 min

to write a query with Uber's internal text-to-SQL tool

Write the query becomes Check the query

Drafting SQL is becoming the cheap part. Knowing whether it answers the real question is not.

Uber engineering blog, on QueryGPT

19 pts

less likely to be right, with AI, on a task beyond its reach

Trust the output becomes Know where it breaks

AI is strong on one task and confidently wrong on the next, and it doesn't say which is which.

Dell'Acqua, Mollick, Lakhani and colleagues, Harvard/BCG field experiment, via co-author Karim Lakhani

+10%

projected growth for management analysts to 2035

Produce reports becomes Own the metric and the call

Demand is growing for analysts who define the numbers and advise on them.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook

New in your toolkit

What arrived in data analysis this year

The AI products changing the work, and the part of the job each one now does.

HexAug 2026 · Evals for agent accuracyA notebook agent writes the SQL and Python, runs it and charts the result.$70M Series C led by Avra, with Sequoia, a16z and Snowflake Ventures (SiliconANGLE, May 2025).Databricks GenieJun 2026 · Genie One generally availableAgent mode plans and runs multi-step “why did this move” investigations.Launched at Data + AI Summit with Albertsons, Uplight and Foot Locker quoted (Databricks, Jun 2026).ThoughtSpot SpotterDec 2025 · four BI agentsAn AI analyst that shows its reasoning plan, with sister agents that build dashboards and models.A Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and BI; used by Unilever and Lyft (ThoughtSpot, Jul 2026).OmniJul 2026 · RoutinesRoutines: an AI analyst that runs scheduled analysis in the background and posts what it finds.$120M Series C at a $1.5B valuation, led by ICONIQ (Fortune, Apr 2026).Snowflake CoWorkJun 2026 · renamed from Snowflake IntelligencePlain-English questions to SQL over governed data, plus deep research across it.Almost 2,500 accounts in its first three months (Snowflake Q4 FY26 results, Feb 2026).

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What stays yours

The part you still own

The real question

Turning what a stakeholder asked into what they need to know.

A source of truth

Checking the answer against what the metric actually means.

The recommendation

Putting your name to a call that can't be tested in advance.

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What your first 30 days look like as an analyst

Your first workflow: Sanity-check an AI-written SQL query against the schema, about 10 min, run in the AI assistant you already use.

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