ChatGPT offers Advanced Data Analysis, a powerful tool that helps users crunch data and search for insights. Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to use it to quite good effect. Other AIs are starting to offer similar tools, but so far, they don’t seem to have the power of ChatGPT’s Advanced Data Analysis feature.
Data analysis has been part of computing’s kit bag for decades, so AI offers, in a sense, more of the same. Raw data goes in, and some conclusion comes out.
Here’s what makes the AI different in a context that you can put to use right away: AI can do heavy computational analytics tasks with just a few prompts — getting results that previously would require an experienced programmer or data scientist to produce.
I’m a programmer who’s capable of doing such computational analytics; in fact, I enjoy writing data-crunching routines. I also love charts and tables to …