Learn with Meow

Three courses · 26 lessons · about two hours

JMP, SQL and Claude, in small doses.

Made for a scientist picking up two new tools and one new assistant. Every lesson takes a few minutes, so you can learn a little whenever you have a moment. Your place is saved in this browser. Cats are included at no extra charge.

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The courses

Start with Claude. It is the shortest, and it makes the other two work much better. JMP and SQL can be done in either order, or side by side.

2 · Then

JMP in small doses

Data tables and modeling types, Distribution, Graph Builder, Fit Y by X, Fit Model and JSL, with a decoder, a fill-in exercise, and a Claude prompt for every lesson.

10 lessons · 51 minNot started
  1. 1Meet the data table4 min
  2. 2Getting data in4 min
  3. 3Distribution: one variable at a time5 min
  4. 4Graph Builder5 min
  5. 5Fit Y by X: four analyses in one menu6 min
  6. 6Cleaning and shaping data5 min
  7. 7Summaries: Tabulate and Summary4 min
  8. 8Fit Model in ten minutes6 min
  9. 9JSL: let JMP write the script for you6 min
  10. 10Claude as your JMP copilot6 min
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3 · Or this

SQL in small doses

SELECT through JOINs and CTEs on a live veterinary database of 40 cats that runs right in your browser. Every query you type actually runs, and challenges are checked against the real answer.

10 lessons · 47 minNot started
  1. 1A database is just tables4 min
  2. 2Choose your columns4 min
  3. 3Filter rows with WHERE5 min
  4. 4Sort and trim: ORDER BY, LIMIT3 min
  5. 5Summaries: COUNT, AVG, MIN, MAX4 min
  6. 6Summaries by group: GROUP BY, HAVING5 min
  7. 7JOIN: connect the tables6 min
  8. 8Dates, text and CASE5 min
  9. 9Subqueries and CTEs5 min
  10. 10Claude as your SQL copilot6 min
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How it works

Ten minutes at a time is plenty. The routine below is the whole method.

1 · Do one lesson

Read a short explanation, then answer a quick check. Wrong answers explain why, so guessing is allowed. Each lesson ends with an "Ask Claude" prompt you can copy.

2 · Try the prompt in Claude

Paste it into a new chat at claude.ai and see what comes back. The tool plus the assistant is the real skill, and it is faster to build than either one alone.

3 · Come back whenever

Your place and your finished lessons are saved in this browser. This page shows progress across all three courses, so bookmark it and pick up where you left off.

Meet the cats

Four cats appear throughout the examples, the quizzes and the SQL database. They are not going anywhere.

Bella

First row of every example. Siamese, 4.1 kg, and the reason you learn what a good prompt looks like.

Salem

Once showed up three times in a badly written join. Has since forgiven the LEFT JOIN, mostly.

Mr Fluffy

Maine Coon, 8.4 kg. Single-handedly skews the weight histogram to the right in both courses.

Jefe

The boss. Pull up Jefe's complete vet history in SQL lesson 7 with a single WHERE clause.