Uploading a spreadsheet is not the same as defining an analysis. Start with the business question, then provide the relevant spreadsheets, reports, PDFs, logs, or customer feedback. Ask ChatGPT to inspect data quality, identify patterns, calculate appropriate results, create useful visualizations, and explain the evidence in plain language.
For an IT example, upload a de-identified spreadsheet of monthly help-desk tickets by service, location, priority, resolution time, and reopen status. Ask ChatGPT to flag missing or inconsistent values, calculate month-over-month changes, identify services with rising ticket volume or repeat incidents, create two suitable charts, and produce a one-page briefing with three evidence-based actions.
Require a useful deliverable—a cleaned table, dashboard outline, executive summary, or prioritized action list—rather than a collection of observations. Then spot-check the calculations and make sure the analysis does not confuse correlation with cause. Useful analysis connects data to a business decision without pretending that the data says more than it does.
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