ChatGPT for Data Analysis — A Beginner's Guide | by Natassha Selvaraj | Dec, 2023 – Towards Data Science
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Data analysis is a time-consuming task.
It requires a working knowledge of complicated Excel formulas and some programming expertise.
When analyzing data, I used to spend hours debugging code and scouring through online tutorials to get my desired result.
Until recently!
ChatGPT is a game-changer in the data analytics space.
Even if you don’t know Excel and can’t write a single line of code, ChatGPT puts the capabilities of a junior data analyst at your fingertips.
All you need to do is ask ChatGPT a question in plain English.
The model will then use its natural language capabilities to analyze your data and solve the problem.
In this tutorial, I will show you how you can turn ChatGPT into your own personal data analyst.
To follow along to this tutorial, you must have a paid subscription to ChatGPT Plus.
For a video version, click here.
I know a personal trainer, (let’s call him James), who has recently started running his own fitness company.
Due to budget constraints, James needs to manage almost every aspect of the business himself.
This includes, but is not limited to the company’s operations, finance, marketing, customer acquisition, and strategy.
Lately, James has started using ChatGPT to make business decisions based on customer data.
You see, although James knows fitness like the back of his hand, he has no experience working with spreadsheets and programming languages.
In the past, if he wanted to perform any kind of data analysis related task, James would have had two options:
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