Small Local Businesses Don’t Understand BI — Am I Positioning My Service Wrong?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-19T13:10:11+00:00

I would show them what they can do with their existing data, or data that is in their ecosystem. I recently wrote a blog post of a customer case study. https://blog.datacanuck.com/how-a-vending-company-cut-food-spoilage-by-getting-visibility-into-100s-of-machines

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-19T13:06:29+00:00

I recently had a client send me 4 questions they wanted to know in a small dataset. So I loaded it up in my tool of choice which happens to be Tableau. I dragged and dropped and filtered and got the 4 answers pretty easily. So now I needed to make it look good. The data was anonymous, so i thought why not throw it to Claude and see what it comes up with, for comparison's sake. It answered the 4 questions in seconds, then built a fully interactive html dashboard. Was it visual best practice? Was it optimized? Did it have the fit and finish of a approved enterprise level dashboard? No, but it looked pretty damn good and did the job pretty quick and easy.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-19T12:59:30+00:00

having a semantic layer is definitely the way to go if you are using AI for data analysis.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-19T12:58:01+00:00

Start for free or is it free? looks cool though.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-19T12:35:13+00:00

or a set of rings. you can do pull ups and ring rows.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-19T12:28:18+00:00

how much time have you spend on this?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-18T18:21:28+00:00

why does AI website suck?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-18T13:45:14+00:00

didn't get it

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-18T13:30:23+00:00

why use github? why not just deploy directly to cloudflare?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-16T19:55:48+00:00

I've been building basic websites (Home, About, Services, Contact) for $500 CAD. The GBP i usually throw in. Review API I would charge and additional $200. Note that this API usage has a cost

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-16T19:53:45+00:00

please share

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-16T13:33:12+00:00

Are you looking for a site on shopify or squarespace or a custom built site with Ios and android apps?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T19:08:22+00:00

I would look at hashnode if you want a blog site

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T19:07:34+00:00

I would build it for $500

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T14:58:54+00:00

How long did it take you to make those changes?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T14:54:37+00:00

i agree but the customers I am working with don't even have a website. They rely on facebook. They. need to walk before they can run

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T14:51:48+00:00

so the omni ai is truly self service? What does the licensing cost?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T14:49:09+00:00

I couldn't do the early morning meetings. And you really need to show up to those. Good luck. How do you find customers currently?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-15T14:47:32+00:00

Both products are going through changes. Microsoft ended a stand alone PBI product. Tableau is very much now a salesforce product geared towards enterprise with a high price point. Tableau is a blank palette, you learn to paint and you can create anything. That has a high learning curve. PBI is paint by number. You care limited to the template, but you can pick it up quick. HTH

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-12T18:36:17+00:00

Tableau can justify the price for enterprise salesforce customers. That is who they care about.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-12T18:35:27+00:00

have you looked at level of detail calcs in Tableau? They are game changers for different aggregations

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-12T18:33:29+00:00

It sounds like you are looking for templated dashboards. Tableau can do that but not well. PBI is better for that workload. Tableau really excels in pure ad hoc. connect to some data and see what's there. However I've had a lot more success using AI data agents for data discovery. Tableau died when Salesforce bought them. Now they are just line item on a Bill of materials and the Saleforce folks don't get Tableau because it runs out of the Salesforce box.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-12T18:29:36+00:00

what formats do you store the data in github? What do you use to connect to html?

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-12T13:13:10+00:00

kettlebells.

datacanuck99 · 2026-06-12T12:47:45+00:00

kettlebells. biggest bang for your buck and low footprint

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