The capstone — make it real
Before you close this tab, run one question that matters to your actual job this week:Prompt
The pocket cheat sheet
| You want to… | Say to Ana… |
|---|---|
| Discover what’s possible | ”What data do you have about ___?” |
| Get a number | ”What was [metric] in [time period]?” |
| Break it down | ”Break that down by ___ / show the top 5.” |
| Compare | ”How does that compare to [period]?” |
| Understand why | ”What’s driving that change? Decompose it.” |
| Visualize | ”Show that as a [line/bar] chart.” |
| Verify | ”How did you calculate that? Is the definition governed?” |
| Make it durable | ”Turn this into a report / dashboard.” |
| Automate | ”Create a playbook that runs every Monday…” |
| Teach it | ”Our official definition of [metric] is… save it.” |
Keep it handy — Print this page (it prints cleanly) or bookmark the Prompt Cookbook for your first week of real questions.
Where to go from here
- Use it for real this week. Next time you’d file a ticket with the data team or dig through a dashboard, ask Ana first.
- Create one playbook for a question you answer repeatedly — adoption sticks when something useful arrives in your inbox Monday morning. Then go deeper: Dashboards & Reporting and the Automation Deep-Dive pick up exactly where Modules 4–5 left off.
- For your data team: the companion workshop, Build Your Ontology, End to End, covers how the governed definitions behind today’s answers are built and maintained.
- Feedback: tell your TextQL team what was confusing and what data you wished you had — both directly shape your workspace.