Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of November 13; Updates from Alteryx, Databricks, Edelbyte & More

Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of November 13, 2026.

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SR Expert Network: The Loom, The Car & the Modern Data Engine by Dr. Joe Perez

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Analytics and Data Science News for the Week of November 13, 2026

Alteryx Connects Governed Analytics Workflows To Google’s Gemini For Healthcare

Alteryx has integrated its MCP data connector with Google Cloud’s Gemini for healthcare, allowing teams to invoke established analytics workflows from conversational AI. Healthcare experts can define reimbursement rules, reconciliation calculations, and other business logic in visual workflows that remain inspectable and repeatable. For example, Gemini could call an approved workflow to compare claims and return exceptions for review rather than generate the calculations itself.

Read on for more→ Alteryx Brings Governed Analytics to Google Cloud’s Gemini for Healthcare

Databricks Makes Genie Ontology Generally Available For Shared Business Context

Databricks has made Genie Ontology generally available, combining business context learned from dashboards, queries, and notebooks with authoritative definitions governed through Unity Catalog. Its ranking system weighs source authority, certification, relevance, and recency to select context while respecting user permissions; Genie MCP extends that context to external agents. The release also makes Genie Search, Ontology Snippets, organizational directories, Domains, and Pages generally available.

Read on for more→ Announcing GA of Genie Ontology

Edelbyte Launches With $70 Million For Agent-Oriented Search And Analytics

Edelbyte has launched with $70 million raised across two rounds led by Sequoia and Quiet Capital, targeting enterprise analytics workloads increasingly generated by AI agents. Founded by former Microsoft Azure Data Explorer executives, the platform supports search, analytical queries, vectors, and graph processing across deployments designed for hundreds of petabytes. Query federation reduces required data movement, while automated index optimization addresses changing access patterns.

Read on for more→ Edelbyte Reels In $70M for Its Multipurpose Data Analytics Platform

Hood College And Frederick County Fund Applied AI And Analytics Training

Hood College’s Bioscience Research and Education Center and Frederick County Workforce Services will deliver two AI-enhanced data analytics cohorts in spring and fall 2027. Each will serve 10–15 participants, with training progressing from data and AI literacy to visualization, machine learning, predictive modeling, and business problem-solving. The initiative targets unemployed, underemployed, and career-advancing local workers, backed by $34,000 in federal workforce funding.

Read on for more→ Hood College, Frederick County Workforce Services to Launch AI-Enhanced Data Analytics Training Program

Microsoft Sets May 2027 Retirement For Built-In R And Python Power BI Visuals

Microsoft will retire built-in R and Python visuals in Power BI in May 2027, stopping them from working in published reports—including existing reports. Future Desktop versions will remove the visuals, while older versions will retain local execution using installed R and Python environments. Python scripts used in Power Query to populate tables are unaffected. Report owners must replace affected visualizations before retirement, preserve scripts and dependencies, and test alternatives.

Read on for more→ Announcing the Retirement of R and Python Visuals in Power BI

PuppyGraph Raises $10 Million To Expand In-Place Graph Queries For Enterprise Agents

PuppyGraph has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Particle Future and defy.vc, bringing total funding to $15 million following PuppyGraph 1.0’s general availability. The engine queries relationships directly across existing data platforms without loading a separate graph database. Its AI-assisted schema builder proposes connections for human approval, while MCP support connects external agents and query feedback helps them correct undefined relationships.

Read on for more→ PuppyGraph Raises $10M Series A to Help Enterprises Build AI Agents That Query 3,000 Tables in Subseconds

Qlik Previews AI Assistance For Building, Documenting, And Troubleshooting Data Pipelines

Qlik has introduced Talend Studio AI Assistant in public preview, bringing contextual help into the development environment teams already use. Built on Qlik Answers and governed through Qlik Talend Cloud, the assistant generates documentation, drafts jobs from plain-language requests, supports mapping and coding, and summarizes execution logs to identify likely errors. Developers retain control over what ships.

Read on for more→ Qlik Brings AI Assistance to Everyday Data Development in Qlik Talend Cloud

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