#The game notes
My grandfather taught me to keep score. Pencil. Card. 6-4-3. That scorecard was the first clean dataset I ever held. The back of a baseball card was the same plays, added up. Row-level in one hand, aggregate in the other. I didn't know either word yet.
That was 1984. I haven't stopped. 178 games, every one checked against the Retrosheet play-by-play, modeled in dbt. This year I took seven questions any fan would ask and ran them through every tool you're being told changes everything. Tableau. Tableau Next. Agentforce. Data 360. Snowflake. Databricks.
Every one of them wants to keep score for you now. Some got it right. Some got it wrong with a straight face. I kept score on them.
Claude Code had the seat next to me the whole way. This site's built with the same tools it talks about.
How to keep score → the seven questions, the parity harness, how to read a trace.
#The lineup
The batting order, one through nine. One dataset, one question each.
#The away games
Superstore, the sample data every Tableau person knows by heart, played on the vendor's diamond.
An anonymous complaint finds the customer, the order, and the account owner. Then it opens the case. Five sources, 1,041 identities, 804 profiles, and an agent that can only do three things.
Classic Superstore tells you what happened. 007 is Licensed to Act. See the trend, ask why, open the case, never leave Slack.
#Who keeps score
A guy named Wax. Real name George Weatherwax.
Made his debut in '09. With a Stephen Few training and a chart that wasn't Excel. Same question every day since: here's the data, now what?
Tableau people have been building context since before anyone called it that. The tools keep changing — Excel, SQL, Tableau, Salesforce, now Agentforce and Claude Code. The muscle doesn't.
The Viz is what happens when that work gets to be fun.
The résumé side lives on LinkedIn → linkedin.com/in/georgeweatherwax
The rest of him is in the stands, one row over.