ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter Was Just Released. Here’s How It Will Change the Way We Analyze Data Forever.

The MOST AMAZING ChatGPT plugin was just released — code interpreter. This plugin allows us to upload data, conduct data analysis, generate reports, and even download into a PDF document.

The best part? All this is done in seconds. If you are running a business and thought you needed to hire an intern to perform the number crunching and fancy reports, think again.

Here’s a quick preview of what you can do with ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter.

Before we get started, I wanted to plant this seed. now imagine we are a small business in selling office supplies across various regions. We are considering bringing a part time employee to conduct data analytics for us. Let’s hold our horses, we can use ChatGTP Code Interpreter.

Think About a Small Business

First things first — Enable Code Interpreter

To enable the code interpreter plugin, click on the three dots located in the bottom left corner and select Settings.

A new window will pop up. Select “Beta Features” and enable “Code Interpreter” as shown below.

After that open a new chat and select GPT-4. You should see the code interpreter listed in the dropdown.

Note: On July 6th, OpenAI announced that the code interpreter will be available to all ChatGPT Plus users over the next week. In case, you still don’t have it yet, keep checking the Beta Features during the week.

Now let’s explore what we can do with the code interpreter.

ChatGPT’s Code Interpreter can generate a quick report and provide a link to download it in PDF format

Now that the code interpreter is enabled, we can upload a new file. In the chat bar, you should see a new plus icon. Click on it to upload this dataset about our small business sales from 2021 to 2022.

After uploading the file, you should see this.

Here’s the prompt we’ll use to start with a quick analysis.

First, a quick overview of regional sales is provided.

Then we get our graphs

But my favorite part is that you can export all this as a report in PDF format. Here’s the prompt that gets this done.

Summary

Code interpreter plugin is a great tool for doing data analysis. Sometimes as a small business expanding a team is extremely hard when bootstrapped. Here is way to help hire a personal data person (AI) that can be available for you 24/7!