Notes from the shop floor

How we build dashboards, what makes them get used, and how to pick the tool.

• From a call to a live dashboard in about 10 days

  How we go from a recorded call to a wireframe in 48 hours, a first build in 7 days and a live dashboard in about 10.

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• Ask your data anything, and you will get rubbish faster

  AI has made dashboards quick to build. The work left is deciding what each screen points at and what its numbers mean.

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• Dashboards you own, without per-seat licences

  Keep the dashboards your team uses, drop the recurring seat fees, and own the code and hosting outright.

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• Chat with your data: questions answered in plain English

  A conversational layer over your warehouse lets people ask questions in plain English and get governed answers in seconds.

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• Choosing a BI tool: Power BI, Tableau, Looker or Qlik

  A plain comparison of Power BI, Tableau, Looker and Qlik, with a note on open-source and self-hosted options.

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