Compare Dash’s code-based analytics with Power BI’s point-and-click interface across AI, self-service, maintenance, deployment, and security.

Build internal apps in 2026 with AI coding agents: what to build, how to connect data and deploy securely, plus four example apps with prompts.

Build an MCP server in Python with Dash. Five examples for analytics and internal data, with the prompts to build them, plus how to design and host tools.

The mystery model Space Bunny Alpha was MiniMax all along. The released M3.1 Flash scores 41 of 43 on our data analytics exam, the best result we've seen from a Chinese lab, and finds all five hidden patterns.

Compare business intelligence vs data analytics, see where they overlap, and learn when a point-and-click BI platform or code-based data app fits.

Reflection's new open-weight Beam 1.0 scores 36 of 43 on our data analytics exam and catches every data quality problem we planted, but almost none of its input was cached, so the run cost $8.29.

South Korea's Upstage makes two of the cheapest models per token on our leaderboard. On our data analytics exam they scored 27 and 21 of 43, and read millions of tokens per question.

Closed models still lead on our data analytics exam, and small ones are often cheaper. Here's what open models offer, from running on your own hardware to fine-tuning, and when owning the servers makes sense.

76 years of San Francisco temperatures plotted 13 ways, from a default line chart to calendars, heatmaps, a Joy Division ridgeline and a census-style table, with the prompt to build each one in Plotly.

Learn how averages, weak comparisons, misleading scales, color, and hidden filters can distort dashboard decisions, and how to design clearer data apps.