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.
What is ChatGPT? A plain-English guide
ChatGPT is OpenAI’s assistant app. Each answer is built from more than your message: the chat so far, saved memories, custom instructions, Project files, attachments, and tools like…
Common analytics traps
Survivorship, cherry-picking, averages of averages, wrong grain, and lonely numbers. Spot the traps that make clean charts support bad decisions.
What is Claude? A plain-English guide
Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant family, not one single app. This Part 1 map separates company, models, and products so you can start on web or mobile without…
How to write a one-page analytics brief
Stop starting with the warehouse. Use an eight-field one-page analytics brief to turn vague stakeholder asks into decision-ready work before you write a single query.
How to read a business number in context before you react to it
Counts, rates, denominators, and “compared to what?” A practical guide to reading workplace numbers without falling for lonely metrics or seasonal surprises.




