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That is the business model of OpenAI and other upcoming AI companies. They will offer businesses customized, closed and secure AI engines that could only be used within the confines of the company's network.
Excel VBA is still the most widely use tool for engineering and finance. Wait until you have a question from an external auditor. You still need to know the underlying process. Engineer questions are not that simple to infer. For example I just asked co pilot why the coefficient of correlation doesn’t display correctly in charts sometimes and he didn’t know why.
Not excel, manual or formula data analysis is dead already. Excel is a data structure in tabular form to manipulate. All the power of analysis is on the AI side soon which will be faster and trivially done by anyone without knowing Excel. You can store all the data you want in it and just cause it's a table, it will survive as a data saving format. But not for much longer.
I understand both points of view, new technologies have been trying to kill excel for more than 20 years now unsuccessfuly... But maybe this time is different? But also notice that when asked why profits when down the last year, the AI suggested different reasons without providing the correct answer... This will mean that the data analyst will still need to have skills in excel, powerbi or other data analyst tools to drill in and find the currect reasons... I believe that the data analysts that will survive the AI apocalypse are the one that can automate and speed up their work working WITH this new AI tools, no against them... We have done it before. When powerbi appeared, people that adapted and learned and added that tool to our arsenal did very well... AI could be another tool that data analyst power users can use to become faster and more skilled in our job... Beside, you still need to ask the right questions to the AI and decide on the best provided solutions, and that is exactly the kind of things that good data analysts can do very well...
Excel has huge problems. You cannot use it in git. You cannot test it in a god way. The amount of data is limited and its slow. The reason why its still in use is, because people with an economics background need bullshit jobs. Thats why ai systems won't kill Excel
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Chat is really useful. It’s even more useful if you have some sort of background in what you’re trying to excel at (no pun intended). That’s why people are so scared to use it, it can be used for almost anything but most people don’t have the necessary information and knowledge to maximize its use.
This is fantastic for ease of use, but slightly terrifying as an analyst watching a tool created that can allow entry-level hires to complete high-level tasks with no actual knowledge (which were prerequisites for hire initially)
I suppose my biggest solace lies in the fact that I’m employed in a secure facility. The data we work with requires security clearance to access it, so I don’t need to stress about losing my job to some yahoo who used this tool to “look good without learning” since we would never be permitted to have Chat-GPT on our devices or export a file to use on a personal device.
@@PolyInProgit could change drastically there are LLMs which are being developed which will run on premise servers , training will be done on Large Datasets but no data will be sent outside 😂 no one is safe in AI revolution
It can allow entry-level people to make huge and horrifying mistakes because they can't tell what they are looking at, just like highly automated industrial equipment can be run by a noob, but...
...this won't replace data analysts because you still need someone to curate and collect the data and make certain there's no discrepancies in the real world. If anything, it makes a Dat analysts life easier. You're always going to need a human to communicate. Experience is key.
AI will communicate it better than a human. I think you are overestimating humans in that respect. It's early days for AI and it moves and improves faster than we can imagine.
It might not replace human analysts per se but it will definitely have an impact on how many analysts it takes to do the same amount of work. If AI tools help reduce the need for technical know-how and allow analysts to do a piece of work 2x-3x as fast, that increases the pool the people who could do analysis AND reduces the number of analysts required, a double whammy when it comes to the job market for analysts.
@@distilledgogilbaThere is hell lot of big data to be analysed .. Excel in this era is totally outdated as it hardly handles a million row data .. You need skills to work on cloud, build ETL to automate process and connect to a BI tool which again comes with set of measures to be created, BI has to be optimised to perform stutter free especially on realtime big data.. plus data handling comes with set of security that needs to be handled.. First understand what data analyst do and then think how AI will help in certain tasks.. I use chat gpt to correct my DAX measure or M codes, create customised plots through python, understand business problems if it's out of my domain and many more.. The one showed in video is very basic for industry standards.. Don't get panicked or panic others who are passionate in this area..
Chat GPT is a wonderful tool for somethings, but I for one would not be prepared to upload my very sensitive financial data to anywhere in the "cloud" to anyone for any reason!
As someone who is an analyst, this is both terrifying and amazing. However, your data is very clean. If you give it some data that’s dirty, it does a terrible job and will fail.
This is true, but these functions are better exploited by analysts because they have the knowledge of how to perform analysis and what type of analysis is most appropriate for various cases.
Most of the time that happens I’ve hit a dead end. If you start over and summarize what you gained from the last conversation it gets going pretty well
If you upload an Excel file into ChatGPT as highlighted in this video, would you not worry that all the data within the file becomes part of the AI, and therefore part of the whole AI realm? If that's the case, then your data is part of the AI realm, and might be accessible to/by other users.
A user can own Excel and can use it offline Nor are they required to upload/share their data to some 3rd party, chatGPT. Still very useful,, especially when working with data that isint sensitive
But can it add data to the spreadsheet? I'd love to have it as an assistant that you could tell to add a new stock purchase to my existing portfolio in all the right places and formats and links to tax portions of same spreadsheet.
I completely agree. I believe the future of data analysis will not primarily hinge on proficiency with tools like Excel, SQL, Python, or R. Instead, it will revolve around effectively communicating with AI systems, such as ChatGPT, and other emerging technologies. Mastering AI language will become a crucial skill across all professions. However, a solid understanding of your specific professional functions will be essential. It will enable you to craft precise prompts, ask relevant questions, and identify potential errors in AI-generated responses.
After seeing this video, I can confidently say excel is alive and well. I work in excel for a living and I am probably one of its most proficient users.
Will it coordinate an in depth analysis of internal and world event driven items such as the loss of a key employee, bringing on a new vendor, a flood in the region, the Suez Canal impacting just in time delivery dates, changes in laws or government, multiple data souces… and things you have not considered, when making predictions?
Can confirm. I threw a sheet with different daily rates for 3 roles in 3 tiers each by staffing companies ( procurement data) . WIth the initial prompt "Which company is the cheapest" and a couple of replies to GPT asking me I arrived at a list cheapest to most expensive on average. WIld.
I think it's nice that AI is able to read through spreadsheets and derive some meaning, but it's still a far cry from actually working with the data. These tools are still evolving not able to handle complex or dirty data and have limits. It's the same as using AI for any other work, you must be aware of what it knows, ask your questions carefully and double check the results. At the moment the only danger to anyone's job will come from managers who don't understand the job. It's up to you (the data analyst) to make them aware of what you do over what the tool does. Turn it on its head and show how the tool could help you but not replace.
Yeah once it starts interpreting dirty data and cleaning it up like a good human analyst does but in 10 seconds vrs an hour for a human that will be cool to see
this is simply insane ! makes works so smarter and efficient and helps in free up time to pick up some more pressing tasks . thanks, Kevin, for sharing tips & tricks along with tutorials. You have touched many lives .
Is the "Data Analyst" tool available within the current GPT-4? I do have a premium subscription and access to the custom GPT's. So my question is: If I were to upload an Excel file to the GPT-4 chat, would the results be the same as the results inside Data Analyst?
Thinking on this more, beyond the magic of seeing the GPT engine produce analysis, the Achilles heel of this tool is its single use and lack of memory. There is no memory after the session of questions. Every spreadsheet analysis is one off. Super the boss might think it’s amazing the first time, but as soon as the spreadsheet changes - and it always does - you’ll have to start the chat and all your questions and charts all over again. Suddenly it doesn’t seem such a time-saver. Meanwhile, if you get your data person or the Excel whiz 2 seats over to make a pivot table, chart, or a full data model and automated dashboard, they’ll update instantly as new data gets put in, changed, or corrected. Waaaay better for anything more than the most simple of questions any business not started literally yesterday should already have answers to.
To be honest it looks good, but i would save time if i use directly a pivot table and insert a chart, at some point you need to do stuff by yourself and not always rely on AI.. :)
Exactly. This IS done better with software. And you can save that file too. You can’t save the output from Chat GPT because it doesn’t produce a saveable file.
Indeed. This can help some total novice, but nothing showed here looks like a time saver, or perhaps those verbal interpretations could be if I write bullet points/hypothesis and ask gpt to elaborate from those.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🤖 Introduction to ChatGPT Data Analyst* - Introduction to ChatGPT's functionality as a personal AI Data Analyst. - Overview of premium subscription features and custom GPTs. - Demonstrations of various GPT capabilities, including data analysis and visualization. 02:16 *📊 Data Analysis with ChatGPT* - ChatGPT's ability to analyze data from Excel files. - Demonstrations of simple and complex data analysis queries. - Explanation of how ChatGPT aggregates data from multiple sheets and performs calculations. 06:19 *💵 Data Visualization with ChatGPT* - ChatGPT's capability to create visualizations, such as bar charts, from data. - Demonstrations of modifying chart properties, such as axis formatting and bar colors. - Ease of making visual adjustments through simple text-based commands. 07:42 *📈 Advanced Data Analysis Queries* - ChatGPT's ability to provide detailed analysis and insights for complex queries. - Examples of querying trends, identifying potential reasons for flat profits, and analyzing seasonal patterns. - Illustration of ChatGPT's potential to assist in decision-making processes and business insights. Made with HARPA AI
Great video! You missed to show that you can ask GPT for a downloadable png of the graphs You can also do so much more, like flowcharts, mind maps, heat maps, etc
@@KevinStratvert In my case, I had a sheet with several thousand rows of Amazon sales data, including daily and hourly data. GPT was able to analyze it and give me deep insights, such as hourly and daily trends. Plus, it provided me with super cool graphs to show YoY comparisons and hourly sales heat maps too. I was super impressed and actually found it very useful.
Chat GTP sounds good in theory, but when you need to load your own data into it, (using a spreadsheet) as how your supposed to avoid using (because you said it was too cumbersome, no one wants to use formulas) Where doss your info go, how it's used, who has access to it. Where is the privacy?
Does this mean that sql is dead if we can query a database with a simple, more English friendly chat prompt? I would assume that gpt can even edit data in rows and columns too?
@@BigGuy10Points LOL "has been" not anymore. Last 1-2 years everything changed and will change faster. RIP SQL and Excel and Data Analysts and video editors and graphic designers etc.
Dude just gave all his company's secure information to bigdata and now all his competitors can have access to it for a price. Later, the Cookie Company went belly up.
You could also upload screen shots of analysed data whether its tables, charts, or anything else and ask it to analyse it for you. It's a revolutionary learning and productivity machine and I love it 😎💪 That said, it might make mistakes sometimes. So, you should always be vigilant, careful, and even double check the information if you suspect something isn't accurate. It doesn't just do Excel but SPSS, JASP, R, Python and much more. Go have fun with it and happy coding 😁
In the case of a Data Analyst's employer - company data, that is sensative. Employers expect you to keep their data within thier intranet or approved vendor portals. You will not be able to drop any such files into this tool, sharing it with non company systems is a violation of InfoSec policy.
If you don’t want to pay, just use Python and R… the codes for data analytics are done, you don’t have to think for the input. Only for the output. If there is something complex, it is the real life job, not how to code the analysis.
Can ChatGPT do cluster analyses or similar? That'd be really helpful. If it can, do the same data assumptions apply, or would it be able to recognize clusters without making sure these assumptions are met. Thanks, Kevin. You rock.
If I am 34 and just now entering into the workforce in business, and my only knowledge is knowing how to navigate in excell well, what use am I to the world of business? What do you recommend someone like me learn, in order to stay marketable?
Excel is far from being just an analytics tool. I've been using spreadsheets since the days of the old paper columnar pads, then Lotus 123, and then Excel. Excel and the others are often points of original entry for data. So, no, Excel isn't dead; it will be around for a while longer.
What is a good alternative to Excel spreadsheet that uses functions that auto-populate depending on a cell's value and auto-calculate also? Some users were not able to use the excel workbook.
I gave ChatGPT 850 lines of data and when the results didn’t make sense she apologized and said she only used a sample of the data and then gave me the correct results using all data. The fact that I had to do that made me not trust ai right now.
I’ve realised that people who don’t like AI starts their process like this. Stage 1: AI won’t be able to do XXX. Stage 2: AI won’t be able to do better than humans in XXX. Stage 3: WE SHOULD REGULATE THIS ASAP!!
ChatGPT is wrong many times, even on simple calculations. It's not a reliable tool. It just says "sorry" and tries to calculate again if you confront it...but if you don't know he is wrong, well...all your data will be wrong. Not a reliable tool.
I wonder if you can ask the AI what questions and insights should a prudent business leader apply to the data? (i.e. ask AI to ask and answer prudent questions and suggest prudent business decisions to be made accordingly )
Is the data that you upload into ChatGPT confidential? Could the data be used to further develop the model and/or be utilized as supporting evidence/data for prompts by other users or is it isolated? Would you redact the workbook before uploading it?
as a former Microsoft employee! i now feel good I quit my job as well! I used PowerBI when PowerBI was a God in the industry! now what can PowerBI be with this AI capabilities
2:24 I was wishing you would click on the Clip to see if it any other option such as a Google Sheets instead of just Excel or what other format type there were, or maybe to pull a file from Dropbox, etc.
It’s not that important how chat GPT figures out how to make a poem or picture. But if you are relying on chat GPT to look through a bunch of spreadsheets and say - “your company is profitable” or “it’s losing money” I wouldn’t just say “Ok! I’ll go with that and make a presentation to the shareholders now”.unlike other things in AI you need to know how chat GPT is coming up with these answers.
Thanks for this. I was trying this function of chat gpt before it becomes a separate gpt but I was not impressed by the results. The deduction from the exel file were pretty obvious. I should retest this. Thanks!
Love it. I can think of a problem however. My boss would probably be unsure of the accuracy. She'll want to see the workings out. If we ask chagpt to put the workings out in a table would it ?
Sumif equation for the revenue for one customer, reports though with tables and graphs definitely could hasten doing analytics on a per workbook basis.
I remember my excitement in 1999 when Google Search became open for the public at large. Haven't had that same feeling in 25 years until now with ChatGPT 😊
The growing capability is interesting, but I think it’s being way oversold in this video. You make a point of saying you could make a pivot table but who knows how to do that. Any competent data analyst or anyone who’s worked with Excel at their jobs for more than a year can. It can be done in under 2 minutes and give insights to 10 questions, 6 of which you didn’t think to ask until you actually started looking at the summary. And that’s the key: the insights and questions come from the process of exploring the data. Just asking the questions you’ve already thought of will only lead to the limited answers you thought you needed, not the much wider set of answers the data can tell you.
This is very interesting, I wonder if you could just write can you analyze the data and give me insights? And for example he would found the seasonality without having to ask for it directly. Also this seems like a very small excel table, does it work with large files?
Hi Kevin! Can You say something about privacy? If I send my company data to ChatGPT, will my data stay forever on ChatGPT servers? I'm not sure I want to give my secret company data to them forever. What You think?
This might be a nit pick that gets solved in time...but how does this playout when you have an LLM providing analysis to analysts that dont have the knowlede or skill to independently confirm the results? I wouldn't be comfortable in GPTs current state (far from infallible) using it's analytics features for work or for my other primary use case (investment analysis) without some method to confirm the model is producing verified results.
Yeees, but... LLMs have inherent weaknesses that make their reliability at least questionable! Answers from ChatGPT are sometimes funny and sometimes simply wrong. So, I'm really not sure if LLMs are the right technology, when you need results that are ALWAYS precise, true and reliable.
Yup. ChatGPT makes stuff up unless you tell it not to. However, since in this use, the data is all self-provided, I question if AI halucinations happen in this use.
@@chipcook5346 The LLM needs to understand and correctly interpret your language. It needs to understand your column names and map it correctly as input. It also needs to find the formula terms, and so on... there are many things that are not under your control and for which the LLM has to use it's giant neural networks that contain a lot of other stuff that is not related to your problem and may interfere with your intention. But it's also correct, that because of the limited domain of data analysis, it is much easier for the LLM to avoid halucinations and shortcuts. But still I wouldn't trust it if critical decision are to be made based on its results.
@@Apenschi Me, neither. I'm very serious that this will go as the law -- and medicine -- have been going. For that matter as middle management as defined prior to the 90s went. Remember when IBM (we didn't even realize that IBM was getting bashed on the rocks) let go a huge portion of the tax base of, I think, Bryn Mawr by dumping 10,000 middle managers? At least nowadays, you won't necessarily have your entire life destroyed, and you know that your job is always on the block. At least for now, there had better be a skilled analyst involved.
Do not worry, it is ok to use AI for easy use, but when you have data with thousands of row and columns, even AI cannot accurately analyze that. Imagine even excel crash with those types of data and that is why you would need Power BI or Tableau. Second and maybe it should have been first is privacy of data. There are a lot of companies that don't want their data put in AI. And they clearly specify to not use AI.
Question can PQ merger and append 2 files, call them file A and File B and place them on a master file C? But files A and B are cleared and new data is add daily. I saw people doing so for monthly but they had 12 files for each month. I don't want to have 365 files at the end
Is it possible to train a GPT to become familiar with say regulatory requirements? You feed in various amounts of data and then when asking it a question it can respond based on the knowledge you shared with it. For instance 1,000s of pages of scanned regulations
No. Chatgpt has amnesia. It for now does not use any new data, or does not keep on learning. It only uses data from before 2022. And in terms of regulations... It has hard times to answer. I tried and chatgpt failed big time.
Thanks Kevin for making this video. Does the data analysis tool within ChatGPT has the feature of predictive analysis based on the data. I mean can it extrapolate the data to predict future trends? and if yes, is there a way we can integrate this with the web application where data is coming on a regular basis?
GPT-4 can run any ML algorithm over your data to create predictions. GPT is running python on the backstage, so basically you can clean data, analyse it, and make predictions just like if you were coding it yourself.
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Please don't sensationalize titles. It's essentially clickbait.
Problem is data privacy. We have been instructed not to upload any company data on ai sites. Lets see how they solve them.
Us too
That is the business model of OpenAI and other upcoming AI companies. They will offer businesses customized, closed and secure AI engines that could only be used within the confines of the company's network.
Still dont recommend.
Exactly! This is useless because of lack of data privacy.
gpt team is private, just upgrade it
Excel VBA is still the most widely use tool for engineering and finance. Wait until you have a question from an external auditor. You still need to know the underlying process. Engineer questions are not that simple to infer. For example I just asked co pilot why the coefficient of correlation doesn’t display correctly in charts sometimes and he didn’t know why.
appreciate you shared the idea which most of us had never looked into :)
A cholera !! W ogloszeniach o prace ciagle chca SAP i ERP !!!
what if the auditor is an AI?
If you think excel is dead you don't know excel
Not excel, manual or formula data analysis is dead already. Excel is a data structure in tabular form to manipulate. All the power of analysis is on the AI side soon which will be faster and trivially done by anyone without knowing Excel. You can store all the data you want in it and just cause it's a table, it will survive as a data saving format. But not for much longer.
I understand both points of view, new technologies have been trying to kill excel for more than 20 years now unsuccessfuly... But maybe this time is different?
But also notice that when asked why profits when down the last year, the AI suggested different reasons without providing the correct answer...
This will mean that the data analyst will still need to have skills in excel, powerbi or other data analyst tools to drill in and find the currect reasons...
I believe that the data analysts that will survive the AI apocalypse are the one that can automate and speed up their work working WITH this new AI tools, no against them...
We have done it before. When powerbi appeared, people that adapted and learned and added that tool to our arsenal did very well...
AI could be another tool that data analyst power users can use to become faster and more skilled in our job...
Beside, you still need to ask the right questions to the AI and decide on the best provided solutions, and that is exactly the kind of things that good data analysts can do very well...
Excel has huge problems. You cannot use it in git. You cannot test it in a god way. The amount of data is limited and its slow.
The reason why its still in use is, because people with an economics background need bullshit jobs.
Thats why ai systems won't kill Excel
Is it dead lol
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Chat is really useful. It’s even more useful if you have some sort of background in what you’re trying to excel at (no pun intended). That’s why people are so scared to use it, it can be used for almost anything but most people don’t have the necessary information and knowledge to maximize its use.
This is fantastic for ease of use, but slightly terrifying as an analyst watching a tool created that can allow entry-level hires to complete high-level tasks with no actual knowledge (which were prerequisites for hire initially)
I suppose my biggest solace lies in the fact that I’m employed in a secure facility. The data we work with requires security clearance to access it, so I don’t need to stress about losing my job to some yahoo who used this tool to “look good without learning” since we would never be permitted to have Chat-GPT on our devices or export a file to use on a personal device.
@@PolyInProgit could change drastically there are LLMs which are being developed which will run on premise servers , training will be done on Large Datasets but no data will be sent outside 😂 no one is safe in AI revolution
Good, triumph in darkness, assuming there's no Sun at all 😊
Sorry, but what kind of „high-level task“ were presented here?
It can allow entry-level people to make huge and horrifying mistakes because they can't tell what they are looking at, just like highly automated industrial equipment can be run by a noob, but...
O yes, the demo with this perfectly cleanly structured 100 row data. Gaining insights is 20% of a DAs role.
@@dreamcatcher3748 Getting the data sufficiently cleaned up and formatted to be able to glean those insights.
Structuring the data is the other 80% 😅
"Data Analyst" as a role is misleading. You're a Data-preprocessor with a side of analysis.
Ah, the old clickbait title. Even this guy does it. AI influencers do it a lot.
The tool is pretty good at cleaning data. I have been helping a company clean up their database with 30 years of junk!
...this won't replace data analysts because you still need someone to curate and collect the data and make certain there's no discrepancies in the real world. If anything, it makes a Dat analysts life easier. You're always going to need a human to communicate. Experience is key.
AI will communicate it better than a human. I think you are overestimating humans in that respect. It's early days for AI and it moves and improves faster than we can imagine.
you don`t need to paid full price anymore
It might not replace human analysts per se but it will definitely have an impact on how many analysts it takes to do the same amount of work.
If AI tools help reduce the need for technical know-how and allow analysts to do a piece of work 2x-3x as fast, that increases the pool the people who could do analysis AND reduces the number of analysts required, a double whammy when it comes to the job market for analysts.
@@thisismarkbro no... I'm not a data analyst... But my prefomance is tied to my pay... If i get paid less than I'm not going to give my best
@@distilledgogilbaThere is hell lot of big data to be analysed .. Excel in this era is totally outdated as it hardly handles a million row data .. You need skills to work on cloud, build ETL to automate process and connect to a BI tool which again comes with set of measures to be created, BI has to be optimised to perform stutter free especially on realtime big data.. plus data handling comes with set of security that needs to be handled.. First understand what data analyst do and then think how AI will help in certain tasks.. I use chat gpt to correct my DAX measure or M codes, create customised plots through python, understand business problems if it's out of my domain and many more.. The one showed in video is very basic for industry standards.. Don't get panicked or panic others who are passionate in this area..
Chat GPT is a wonderful tool for somethings, but I for one would not be prepared to upload my very sensitive financial data to anywhere in the "cloud" to anyone for any reason!
Or simply mask out the PII data before you upload. Hell, I can upload a financial spreadsheet with all kinds of made up numbers.
As someone who is an analyst, this is both terrifying and amazing. However, your data is very clean. If you give it some data that’s dirty, it does a terrible job and will fail.
How are you so sure that's what will happen?
Because I’ve tested it. I’ve tested its ability to clean data and it usually ends up screwing it up. It’s not optimized for cleaning data right now.
@@Dragontbone oh ok
The thing is, dirty data is data full of bad patterns like null rows and columns. If you ask me data cleaning will eventually be a breeze for AI.
Today is the worst AI will ever be….
The cool thing here is that it makes it easy to learn the tools faster and get personal projects dine in time.
This is true, but these functions are better exploited by analysts because they have the knowledge of how to perform analysis and what type of analysis is most appropriate for various cases.
Instead of a data analyst you now need a fancier-sounding and more expensive prompt writer. Progress!
ChatGPT told me to take a break and come back later. Guess we all need a breather now and then. Amazing video btw, thanks!
Most of the time that happens I’ve hit a dead end. If you start over and summarize what you gained from the last conversation it gets going pretty well
If you upload an Excel file into ChatGPT as highlighted in this video, would you not worry that all the data within the file becomes part of the AI, and therefore part of the whole AI realm? If that's the case, then your data is part of the AI realm, and might be accessible to/by other users.
Where do you save your Excel files?
A user can own Excel and can use it offline
Nor are they required to upload/share their data to some 3rd party, chatGPT.
Still very useful,, especially when working with data that isint sensitive
But can it add data to the spreadsheet? I'd love to have it as an assistant that you could tell to add a new stock purchase to my existing portfolio in all the right places and formats and links to tax portions of same spreadsheet.
Great video! Companies paid their price to avoid hacking and yet many are going to pay to expose themselves with AI.
I completely agree. I believe the future of data analysis will not primarily hinge on proficiency with tools like Excel, SQL, Python, or R. Instead, it will revolve around effectively communicating with AI systems, such as ChatGPT, and other emerging technologies. Mastering AI language will become a crucial skill across all professions. However, a solid understanding of your specific professional functions will be essential. It will enable you to craft precise prompts, ask relevant questions, and identify potential errors in AI-generated responses.
After seeing this video, I can confidently say excel is alive and well. I work in excel for a living and I am probably one of its most proficient users.
Will it coordinate an in depth analysis of internal and world event driven items such as the loss of a key employee, bringing on a new vendor, a flood in the region, the Suez Canal impacting just in time delivery dates, changes in laws or government, multiple data souces… and things you have not considered, when making predictions?
The value now comes from knowing how to ask the right question no longer how to use the tool.
Domain knowledge+Prompt engineering. Thank you Kevin 😊
Can confirm. I threw a sheet with different daily rates for 3 roles in 3 tiers each by staffing companies ( procurement data) . WIth the initial prompt "Which company is the cheapest" and a couple of replies to GPT asking me I arrived at a list cheapest to most expensive on average. WIld.
I think it's nice that AI is able to read through spreadsheets and derive some meaning, but it's still a far cry from actually working with the data. These tools are still evolving not able to handle complex or dirty data and have limits. It's the same as using AI for any other work, you must be aware of what it knows, ask your questions carefully and double check the results. At the moment the only danger to anyone's job will come from managers who don't understand the job. It's up to you (the data analyst) to make them aware of what you do over what the tool does. Turn it on its head and show how the tool could help you but not replace.
Yeah once it starts interpreting dirty data and cleaning it up like a good human analyst does but in 10 seconds vrs an hour for a human that will be cool to see
Can it do data cleaning? Or can it analyze raw data, data thats not yet cleaned?
You’ll just have to explain to it what is “cleaning” and make some samples for it to know what do you mean and then prompt it to work on it.
Yes, it can clean the data, but it's not perfect. You'll likely need to guide it, but it can pick up on the basics.
this is simply insane ! makes works so smarter and efficient and helps in free up time to pick up some more pressing tasks . thanks, Kevin, for sharing tips & tricks along with tutorials. You have touched many lives .
Is the "Data Analyst" tool available within the current GPT-4? I do have a premium subscription and access to the custom GPT's. So my question is: If I were to upload an Excel file to the GPT-4 chat, would the results be the same as the results inside Data Analyst?
I’m interested in the answer to your question
I always love the "If you'd like to follow along" feature to videos and you've added this and done well with it! Thank you for sharing! Let's connect
Thinking on this more, beyond the magic of seeing the GPT engine produce analysis, the Achilles heel of this tool is its single use and lack of memory. There is no memory after the session of questions. Every spreadsheet analysis is one off. Super the boss might think it’s amazing the first time, but as soon as the spreadsheet changes - and it always does - you’ll have to start the chat and all your questions and charts all over again. Suddenly it doesn’t seem such a time-saver. Meanwhile, if you get your data person or the Excel whiz 2 seats over to make a pivot table, chart, or a full data model and automated dashboard, they’ll update instantly as new data gets put in, changed, or corrected. Waaaay better for anything more than the most simple of questions any business not started literally yesterday should already have answers to.
To be honest it looks good, but i would save time if i use directly a pivot table and insert a chart, at some point you need to do stuff by yourself and not always rely on AI.. :)
Exactly. This IS done better with software. And you can save that file too. You can’t save the output from Chat GPT because it doesn’t produce a saveable file.
Indeed. This can help some total novice, but nothing showed here looks like a time saver, or perhaps those verbal interpretations could be if I write bullet points/hypothesis and ask gpt to elaborate from those.
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 *🤖 Introduction to ChatGPT Data Analyst*
- Introduction to ChatGPT's functionality as a personal AI Data Analyst.
- Overview of premium subscription features and custom GPTs.
- Demonstrations of various GPT capabilities, including data analysis and visualization.
02:16 *📊 Data Analysis with ChatGPT*
- ChatGPT's ability to analyze data from Excel files.
- Demonstrations of simple and complex data analysis queries.
- Explanation of how ChatGPT aggregates data from multiple sheets and performs calculations.
06:19 *💵 Data Visualization with ChatGPT*
- ChatGPT's capability to create visualizations, such as bar charts, from data.
- Demonstrations of modifying chart properties, such as axis formatting and bar colors.
- Ease of making visual adjustments through simple text-based commands.
07:42 *📈 Advanced Data Analysis Queries*
- ChatGPT's ability to provide detailed analysis and insights for complex queries.
- Examples of querying trends, identifying potential reasons for flat profits, and analyzing seasonal patterns.
- Illustration of ChatGPT's potential to assist in decision-making processes and business insights.
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Great video!
You missed to show that you can ask GPT for a downloadable png of the graphs
You can also do so much more, like flowcharts, mind maps, heat maps, etc
Good point!
@@KevinStratvert In my case, I had a sheet with several thousand rows of Amazon sales data, including daily and hourly data. GPT was able to analyze it and give me deep insights, such as hourly and daily trends. Plus, it provided me with super cool graphs to show YoY comparisons and hourly sales heat maps too. I was super impressed and actually found it very useful.
Chat GTP sounds good in theory, but when you need to load your own data into it, (using a spreadsheet) as how your supposed to avoid using (because you said it was too cumbersome, no one wants to use formulas) Where doss your info go, how it's used, who has access to it. Where is the privacy?
Does this mean that sql is dead if we can query a database with a simple, more English friendly chat prompt? I would assume that gpt can even edit data in rows and columns too?
No sql has been available for a long time.
@@BigGuy10Points LOL "has been" not anymore. Last 1-2 years everything changed and will change faster. RIP SQL and Excel and Data Analysts and video editors and graphic designers etc.
@@speedymr it just makes their work faster
Dude just gave all his company's secure information to bigdata and now all his competitors can have access to it for a price. Later, the Cookie Company went belly up.
It’s great for simple data, would be great self serve for basic request…feed it specific data
From ChatGPT's solutions, if you click the [>-] hyperlink, does that give you the formulas that it's using to do its calculations?
Super vid! I uploaded your KCC to gpt and asked it a bunch of questions. Very helpful results and useful insight into how far this can go.
You could also upload screen shots of analysed data whether its tables, charts, or anything else and ask it to analyse it for you. It's a revolutionary learning and productivity machine and I love it 😎💪
That said, it might make mistakes sometimes. So, you should always be vigilant, careful, and even double check the information if you suspect something isn't accurate.
It doesn't just do Excel but SPSS, JASP, R, Python and much more. Go have fun with it and happy coding 😁
In the case of a Data Analyst's employer - company data, that is sensative. Employers expect you to keep their data within thier intranet or approved vendor portals. You will not be able to drop any such files into this tool, sharing it with non company systems is a violation of InfoSec policy.
If you don’t want to pay, just use Python and R… the codes for data analytics are done, you don’t have to think for the input. Only for the output.
If there is something complex, it is the real life job, not how to code the analysis.
Yes, you are right, its truly incredible.
Can ChatGPT do cluster analyses or similar? That'd be really helpful. If it can, do the same data assumptions apply, or would it be able to recognize clusters without making sure these assumptions are met. Thanks, Kevin. You rock.
If I am 34 and just now entering into the workforce in business, and my only knowledge is knowing how to navigate in excell well, what use am I to the world of business? What do you recommend someone like me learn, in order to stay marketable?
Everything changed today's world. If you are just started learning excel you're way behind it... Sorry, but the truth.
Hi Kevin, can you do another video of Excel with Copilot Pro or Copilot for Microsoft 365? Want to see how it compares to this
Excel is far from being just an analytics tool. I've been using spreadsheets since the days of the old paper columnar pads, then Lotus 123, and then Excel. Excel and the others are often points of original entry for data. So, no, Excel isn't dead; it will be around for a while longer.
It can also conflict with customer privacy and personal information laws. Once it is on Chat GPT personal and private information will be compromised😢
can ai help understand general ledgers in excel for accounting?
Yes, just tried it, it's insane, my company is sending us to Texas to get some AI training lmao
What is a good alternative to Excel spreadsheet that uses functions that auto-populate depending on a cell's value and auto-calculate also? Some users were not able to use the excel workbook.
I gave ChatGPT 850 lines of data and when the results didn’t make sense she apologized and said she only used a sample of the data and then gave me the correct results using all data. The fact that I had to do that made me not trust ai right now.
I’ve realised that people who don’t like AI starts their process like this.
Stage 1: AI won’t be able to do XXX.
Stage 2: AI won’t be able to do better than humans in XXX.
Stage 3: WE SHOULD REGULATE THIS ASAP!!
What the data size that can be ingested? Where does the data sit? Confidentiality?
ChatGPT is wrong many times, even on simple calculations. It's not a reliable tool. It just says "sorry" and tries to calculate again if you confront it...but if you don't know he is wrong, well...all your data will be wrong. Not a reliable tool.
Things will go to next level when it cab do things for you in excel like making dashboards, etc
I wonder if you can ask the AI what questions and insights should a prudent business leader apply to the data? (i.e. ask AI to ask and answer prudent questions and suggest prudent business decisions to be made accordingly )
Is the data that you upload into ChatGPT confidential? Could the data be used to further develop the model and/or be utilized as supporting evidence/data for prompts by other users or is it isolated? Would you redact the workbook before uploading it?
Wow! This video blew my mind! ChatGPT's Data Analyst is a game-changer for data analysis. Thank You Kavin!!
If you have experience in data analysis, you will know this is pretty basic stuff and it’s far from being a game changer
as a former Microsoft employee! i now feel good I quit my job as well! I used PowerBI when PowerBI was a God in the industry! now what can PowerBI be with this AI capabilities
Great video. Next, show how to use it to generate files (PDF, PowerPoint, Excel w/Charts/Dashboard, Power BI) to convey the information!
Sir, Please give a video for learning Business Analysis with Excel.
So amazing. People/businesses will need to encrypt their spreadsheets. Are we ready for this?
I'll admit it looks interesting. What can it do with data that's not cleaned up?
This will be addressed in a future... Aaaa... improved model... We are just beginning to... Bla bla...
don't worry ai will do everything in the near future. No need for humans anymore.
Seems it doesn’t create a spreadsheet, but can run analysis on the sheets you have already created.
Thanks. Can the GPT run solver , goalseek? Can it run breakeven and pricing optimization?
2:24 I was wishing you would click on the Clip to see if it any other option such as a Google Sheets instead of just Excel or what other format type there were, or maybe to pull a file from Dropbox, etc.
That is now available! You can upload from Google Sheets and OneDrive!
3 million subs generating just 400 comments on a video published 3 weeks ago. You are good at IT.
It’s not that important how chat GPT figures out how to make a poem or picture. But if you are relying on chat GPT to look through a bunch of spreadsheets and say - “your company is profitable” or “it’s losing money” I wouldn’t just say “Ok! I’ll go with that and make a presentation to the shareholders now”.unlike other things in AI you need to know how chat GPT is coming up with these answers.
Damn! Mind blowing
About to show my boss some levels
Thanks for this. I was trying this function of chat gpt before it becomes a separate gpt but I was not impressed by the results. The deduction from the exel file were pretty obvious. I should retest this. Thanks!
Love it. I can think of a problem however. My boss would probably be unsure of the accuracy. She'll want to see the workings out. If we ask chagpt to put the workings out in a table would it ?
How is this better than ChatGPT's Advance Data Analysis plugin(earlier code interpreter)?
Code Interpreter was renamed Advanced Data Analysis. It is the same tool just with a new name and improved features.
Same.tool
Hi Kevin, could I use this function to solve and learn step-by-step resolution on Calculus problems?
This was awesome! How would we get it to add those created charts and visuals to an Excel or other output file? Thanks again!
Sumif equation for the revenue for one customer, reports though with tables and graphs definitely could hasten doing analytics on a per workbook basis.
How secure would your data be ? Ie could third parties get access to the data in the excels ?
I remember my excitement in 1999 when Google Search became open for the public at large. Haven't had that same feeling in 25 years until now with ChatGPT 😊
Going from Altavista to Google was not that huge of a leap like GPT is lol
@@betimz I never used AltaVista.
It’s great. I wonder though, about privacy and data governance issues. Here in Europe, we have pretty stringent rules on data protection like GDPR
This is a really interesting video. Nicely done. I echo another comment about data privacy, but this seems worth exploring more.
'ask the right questions and then make the right decisions'
The growing capability is interesting, but I think it’s being way oversold in this video. You make a point of saying you could make a pivot table but who knows how to do that. Any competent data analyst or anyone who’s worked with Excel at their jobs for more than a year can. It can be done in under 2 minutes and give insights to 10 questions, 6 of which you didn’t think to ask until you actually started looking at the summary. And that’s the key: the insights and questions come from the process of exploring the data. Just asking the questions you’ve already thought of will only lead to the limited answers you thought you needed, not the much wider set of answers the data can tell you.
Thank you Kevin I hope your company makes even more profit.
This is very interesting, I wonder if you could just write can you analyze the data and give me insights?
And for example he would found the seasonality without having to ask for it directly.
Also this seems like a very small excel table, does it work with large files?
Very cool! I enjoyed it. Art of asking is going to be valuable.
Hi Kevin!
Can You say something about privacy?
If I send my company data to ChatGPT, will my data stay forever on ChatGPT servers?
I'm not sure I want to give my secret company data to them forever.
What You think?
Your channel is one of my few, very few favorite subscriptions on TH-cam ever.😺Straightforward. With substance.🎀🏆🏆
For someone like me who has to analyze a pile of data in a short time, this is gold.
curious how it has worked out for you. I have 12 tab sheet that I want to run breakeven analysis by unit, by location, by headcount, etc
This might be a nit pick that gets solved in time...but how does this playout when you have an LLM providing analysis to analysts that dont have the knowlede or skill to independently confirm the results? I wouldn't be comfortable in GPTs current state (far from infallible) using it's analytics features for work or for my other primary use case (investment analysis) without some method to confirm the model is producing verified results.
Yeees, but... LLMs have inherent weaknesses that make their reliability at least questionable! Answers from ChatGPT are sometimes funny and sometimes simply wrong. So, I'm really not sure if LLMs are the right technology, when you need results that are ALWAYS precise, true and reliable.
Yup. ChatGPT makes stuff up unless you tell it not to. However, since in this use, the data is all self-provided, I question if AI halucinations happen in this use.
@@chipcook5346 The LLM needs to understand and correctly interpret your language. It needs to understand your column names and map it correctly as input. It also needs to find the formula terms, and so on... there are many things that are not under your control and for which the LLM has to use it's giant neural networks that contain a lot of other stuff that is not related to your problem and may interfere with your intention.
But it's also correct, that because of the limited domain of data analysis, it is much easier for the LLM to avoid halucinations and shortcuts. But still I wouldn't trust it if critical decision are to be made based on its results.
@@Apenschi Me, neither. I'm very serious that this will go as the law -- and medicine -- have been going.
For that matter as middle management as defined prior to the 90s went. Remember when IBM (we didn't even realize that IBM was getting bashed on the rocks) let go a huge portion of the tax base of, I think, Bryn Mawr by dumping 10,000 middle managers? At least nowadays, you won't necessarily have your entire life destroyed, and you know that your job is always on the block.
At least for now, there had better be a skilled analyst involved.
it's sad and here I am learning excel hard this past week
Same here.
Do not worry, it is ok to use AI for easy use, but when you have data with thousands of row and columns, even AI cannot accurately analyze that. Imagine even excel crash with those types of data and that is why you would need Power BI or Tableau. Second and maybe it should have been first is privacy of data. There are a lot of companies that don't want their data put in AI. And they clearly specify to not use AI.
Can you make a course on this for using chat gpt for data analyst and scientist
Question can PQ merger and append 2 files, call them file A and File B and place them on a master file C? But files A and B are cleared and new data is add daily. I saw people doing so for monthly but they had 12 files for each month. I don't want to have 365 files at the end
When it comes to random data analysis and and requesting to view and structure the data so its presented a certain way can this be done.
It does not explain why one customer orders more & suggest how a company can grow sales.
Is it possible to train a GPT to become familiar with say regulatory requirements? You feed in various amounts of data and then when asking it a question it can respond based on the knowledge you shared with it. For instance 1,000s of pages of scanned regulations
No. Chatgpt has amnesia. It for now does not use any new data, or does not keep on learning. It only uses data from before 2022. And in terms of regulations... It has hard times to answer. I tried and chatgpt failed big time.
wow truly instructive videos do exist after all, wow. props bro.
Is it possible for this tool to use the two tables and create a3 by combining column from the first two tables?
Thanks Kevin for making this video. Does the data analysis tool within ChatGPT has the feature of predictive analysis based on the data. I mean can it extrapolate the data to predict future trends? and if yes, is there a way we can integrate this with the web application where data is coming on a regular basis?
GPT-4 can run any ML algorithm over your data to create predictions. GPT is running python on the backstage, so basically you can clean data, analyse it, and make predictions just like if you were coding it yourself.
Can it make actual changes to the Excel file or just show analytics?
I dunno, as an Aerospace Data Analyst, ChatGPT replaced some logic in my DAX logic when asked to make it look pretty and it’s terrified me ever since.
GPT is IFFY at BEST for data analysis. I’d give anything of it worked better.