Thread by @jordanschnyc

OpenAI's newly released Code Interpreter changes everything.

Every business on the planet now has access to an on-demand team of McKinsey consultants for $20/month.

To see why, here's what I was able to do in 10 minutes with my own company's data:

I run a newsletter called ChinaTalk () which covers US-China and technology policy.

After uploading the dataset of my 25k readers, it made a plan to help sell ad space. While ChatGPT could do something like this, what came next amazed me... https://t.co/8dmE8L4QaUchinatalk.media

On its own, it started writing python code to plot growth.

It was even smart enough to know it had to convert strings to numbers without me telling having to tell it to.

After asking it "what countries are most subscribers from?" it came up with this:
(thanks Israel!)

By just telling it to "do a cohort analysis" it created these charts

Then I just started telling it to "make interesting charts that can help me drive revenue," and here's what it came up with:

Keep in mind, I spent maybe 10 minutes on this. I've forgotten all the Python for data science I learned 5 years ago and used only very simple natural language prompts to generate this analysis.

Most businesses and bureaucrats don't have data analysts on hand to get insights from the data their organizations spit out.

With Code Interpreter, all of a sudden everyone who can come up with smart questions instantly also has the power of an MA in data science to answer them.

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@Doweyyy

Fwiw, this thing isn't perfect. It definitely made some errors and wasn't able to do everything I asked it (ie map geographically...it told me to export to tableau).

While it isn't better than an experienced data scientist, but for firms that don't have access it's huge