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.
Which AI product should I try first
One-breath chooser: match the job to a first door, try it, and switch only after two real failures. Write a 10-line team note so the default survives Friday…
Grok threads and projects: habits that survive a messy week
Give each Grok thread a job and a name. Split when the job changes. History is a log, memory is sticky, projects are containers; treat them as different…
When Gemini is the wrong tool
Know when Gemini is the wrong tool. Use a wrong-tool map and a good-enough checklist so a fluent answer does not become a customer, policy, or regulator problem.
Observability for pipelines
Pipeline observability means early signals: freshness, volume, schema, and a business check. Red, yellow, green without theater, plus a human who gets paged.
Agents, tools, and harnesses
Separate chatbot, script, and agent. A harness is the wrapper of tools and guardrails. Put a human in the loop before agents touch revenue or customer data.
