Section 7: Dashboard Design and Insight Generation
- Dashboard design principles for executives: a dashboard must answer questions not just show charts, and the strategic, operational and analytical types
- Choosing charts that fit the question, visual hierarchy, meaningful use of color and presentation traps that mislead
- Having Claude find insights, anomalies, trends and correlations, and distinguishing correlation from causation
- Workshop: design an executive dashboard wireframe from the Day 1 dataset
Section 8: Claude Artifact and Interactive Dashboard Prototype
- Building an interactive dashboard prototype with Artifact without coding, adding filters, drill down, sorting and search
- Creating HTML reports and live artifacts that pull fresh data and refresh, plus tuning the design system to the organization brand
- Where Artifact fits and when to move to Power BI or a full BI tool
- Workshop: build an interactive dashboard from your wireframe and test it in use
Section 9: Executive Insight Report and Research Workflow
- A report structure executives can act on within three minutes using the what happened, why, what next narrative and the Pyramid Principle
- Using Claude Research and web search for market and competitor data, with source citation and credibility checks
- Workshop: write a one-page executive insight report from your own analysis
Section 10: Automation, Claude Cowork and MCP Connectors
- Assessing routine work for what to automate and what always needs a human, and using Cowork to handle many files on the user machine
- An overview of MCP (Model Context Protocol) and connecting common connectors (Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
- Creating a morning insight brief and scheduling daily, weekly and monthly reports
- Workshop: set up one automation to summarize data from a folder of report files
Section 11: Claude Skills for Recurring Organizational Reports
- The structure of a Skill (SKILL.md, a good description, supporting files) and writing a description so the Skill triggers at the right time
- Embedding report templates, calculation standards and business rules into a Skill so the monthly sales report is identical every time
- Sharing Skills across the team and an overview of the Claude Agent SDK for full automation (demo)
- Workshop: build one Skill for a report you must repeat every month
Section 12: Data Governance, Security and PDPA
- Data classification, personal data under PDPA and what must never be entered into AI systems
- Risk-reduction techniques: data masking, anonymization, pseudonymization and removing unnecessary columns
- Setting connector and MCP permissions on least privilege, and establishing an AI usage policy, audit trail and human in the loop
- Workshop: inspect a sample dataset, identify sensitive data and draft your team's practice guidelines
Section 13: Capstone Project and Real-world Adoption
- Task: build an end-to-end analysis from a given business dataset or your own team data, setting goals and KPIs with the GQM Framework
- Clean and analyze the data to find three key insights, build an interactive dashboard with Claude Artifact and write an executive insight report with recommendations
- Present the work and get feedback, plus a first-30-days adoption plan and a learning path (Power BI, SQL, Python for Data Analysis, enterprise AI agents)