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Saw a data analyst ad that had "Familiarity with ChatGPT or other AI tools for data analysis" as a nice to have 🤪 I guess we're at the point where employers think ChatGPT is a tool for data analysis. Cool cool cool cool cool. #databs #datasky

It is not?

Haha sorry, it is bait but for an answer I'm genuinely interested in. AI tools (including Chatgpt) offer data analysis features at this moment, I'd consider some of them (with huge caveats) to be helpful. And I'm curious if your post is a humorous take on too much AI in DS or of AI in principle.

My problem is the distinction. AI tools absolutely can help with data analysis (e.g. with SQL or Python syntax or whatever), but they are not tools *for* data analysis. They cannot analyse data for you because they cannot think about problems properly. Though I do intend to test this more this year.

Yeah, I am kind of interested in this. I could see you being mistaken about their capabilities though, depending on your definition of analysis. Haven't tested this much, but they would probably be able to do exploratory work, help a lot with understanding data and can also answer clear hypotheses.