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Airtable in 10 Minutes

Quickly get up to speed with Airtable and learn when it’s the right tool for you

Jeff Hale
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12 min readAug 23, 2021

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Why use Airtable?

Airtable combines the power of a database with the convenient user interface of a spreadsheet. Then it adds some cherries on top, too. 🍒 It’s a solid choice for many use cases.

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If you’re setting up a team without a data pro and you want automation, organization, and insights you may want to use Airtable as your data hub. Like Tableau, it’s a quick-to-learn tool — and it’s a nice addition to your resume. 🖋

In this article you’ll learn the basics of this popular relational database that feels like Google Sheets on steroids. Whether you’ve used relational databases or not there are a few pitfalls — you’ll see those too. Then I’ll share tips to get the most out of Airtable. Finally we’ll discuss a solution that might make the tech and non-tech folks in your organization happy. 👍

Interestingly, Google is rolling out its own Airtable clone, Google Tables — which I might explore in a future article, so follow me on Medium to make sure you don’t miss it. 😀

What problem does Airtable solve?

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Published in TDS Archive

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Jeff Hale
Jeff Hale

Written by Jeff Hale

I write about data things. Follow me on Medium and join my Data Awesome mailing list to stay on top of the latest data tools and tips: https://dataawesome.com

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