Platform hubs

Learn the tools, one platform at a time

A home for each tool I cover, in that tool's own colours. Every hub surfaces the matching content already in the library and the latest straight from the platform.

All platforms

11 hubs

Tableau

Visual analytics

The visual analytics benchmark that turns drag-and-drop into interactive, governed dashboards anyone can explore.

Sigma

Cloud BI

A spreadsheet-style interface that runs live on your cloud warehouse, letting business teams analyse billions of rows and build no-code data apps that write back to the warehouse and trigger real actions.

Hex

Analytics notebook

An AI-native notebook that blends SQL, Python and no-code, then publishes the result as a shareable, interactive data app, including fully custom apps built by prompting its agent.

ThoughtSpot

Search & AI analytics

Search-and-AI analytics where you ask a question in plain language and a live board answers.

Golden Analytics

AI-native BI

An AI-native BI platform, built by Tableau’s former product chief, that reads your data and generates dashboards from a plain-language question.

Snowflake

Cloud warehouse

The cloud data platform that sits under the modern stack, separating storage from compute so teams can query and share data at scale.

Databricks

Lakehouse platform

A lakehouse platform where large-scale data engineering, analytics and AI all run on one governed foundation.

dbt

SQL transformation

Version-controlled, tested SQL transformations that bring software engineering discipline to the modelling layer inside your warehouse.

Alteryx

Data prep & automation

Drag-and-drop pipelines that let analysts prep, blend and automate data workflows without writing code.

Ridge AI

Embedded analytics

Browser-native embedded analytics that lets software companies ship interactive, customer-facing dashboards and data agents in hours rather than months.

Claude

AI assistant

Anthropic’s AI assistant — and the first one I’d genuinely call a capable data analyst. It writes and runs real code for the numbers; you decide how much of your data it gets to see.