2 Chatting with ChatGPT
This chapter covers
- Accessing the ChatGPT web interface
- Using ChatGPT directly for data processing
- Using ChatGPT indirectly for data processing
Time to meet ChatGPT! In this chapter, we will have a chat with ChatGPT and start using it for data analysis. If you have never used ChatGPT, this chapter will teach you how to access it and give you a first impression of its capabilities (as well as its limitations). If you have used ChatGPT but have not yet done so for data analysis, this chapter will show you some of the many ways you can exploit ChatGPT in this context.
We will first discuss a web interface that will give you access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. We will go over the OpenAI registration process, discuss the main functions offered by the interface, and use it to have a first dialogue with ChatGPT. After that, we will start using ChatGPT to analyze data in a few example scenarios. We will see two different ways to exploit ChatGPT for data analysis: directly and indirectly. When using ChatGPT directly, we have it do the actual data processing given data and a task description as input. This works for data types that ChatGPT processes natively (such as text data).