Category: Tutorials
You are in the right place if you want a lesson you can follow, not a glossary and not a product homepage. This shelf holds most of the articles on Analytics Made Simple. Two paths sit inside it on purpose. SQL is the database path: you have rows, and you need to ask a question without exporting another spreadsheet. AI is the tool path: chat products, open-weight models, and the jobs those tools are actually good at. Other tutorials land here when they teach a skill that does not belong on a narrower shelf.
A category page is the pile. A series page is the path, with a place to start and an order. If you open a tag or page 2 of this list, you are in a filing cabinet. The lesson is the article, or the series hub that lines the articles up.
Where to start: if the pain is a table, open the SQL series and use the first part on that page. If the pain is a model name or a chat tool, open the AI category and pick the product you already have on screen. If you are not sure which job you have, open Learn and choose the track that matches the work, not the logo.
How to set up one local AI stack with Ollama, from start to finish
Pick one local stack and live in it. Three apps on three ports is a raffle, not a setup. This guide walks a 30-minute Ollama path and shows…
How to test whether an AI model is good enough for your own work
A Slack rank is not a quality test. Run five real tasks from your week, score pass or fail, and ignore a 0.3 point LMSYS jump when the…
How to draft in Google Docs with Gemini and stay in control
Docs plus Gemini stays useful when you control the path: brief, outline, section drafts, human facts, then voice edit. Placeholders beat fake precision. Humans own the byline.
How to run an AI chatbot on your laptop with a free desktop app
Desktop runners like Ollama and LM Studio get open weights onto a laptop. Install one app from the official site, pull one small local model, send one public…
Why privacy matters when you run AI models on your own computer
A local desktop runner can still ship your prompt to a host if cloud mode is on. This guide maps what leaves (text, files, metadata), when local is…




