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jaredandrews | 1 year ago

This looks pretty cool, I am someone who gets annoyed by excel, sheets, numbers for not just letting you code it in a nice language like python and then visualize/query after that.

But then I see "AI-driven", which I should note is the _third_ line of text on the web page. I assume it is an important feature for the author of the page.

I control-f, "ai-driven", it is only used one other time on the page:

"Perform easy AI-driven visualization with Matplotlib"

There is no further elaboration on the home page and I have been unable to find additional docs. (Someone please post a snarky RTFM response with a link to the manual, cuz like I said I am very interested in this. I did google "pysheets docs" which uhh linked to a python library with the same name...)

Last week, for the first time ever, I used noted "AI" ChatGPT to review a resume I had written. I wouldn't normally do this, but the company I was applying for heavily emphasized that they use chatgpt to generate code and review things.

Ever the skeptic, I decided to try it myself. I have to say I was impressed with the results. EXCEPT, ChatGPT, pointed out a grammar error in my resume which literally did not exist. Like the sentence it was critiquing in it's feedback was not found anywhere in my resume nor was there anything similar (from my perspective, I'm sure 1000 layers deep in it's network there was some similarity to something that had the error and wouldn't it be cool if we could effectively debug that).

ANYWAY, when I see ai-driven without elaboration in a spreadsheet program, I am very concerned that my data might be "hallucinated" and I would encourage the author to explain what exactly this means. Will my charts be correct 99% of the time but sometimes a hallucination? What's going on here? I would probably be signing up for the beta right now if I had any idea. Thanks.

(final snark: funny that one of the authors is named Kurt Vile, what are the odds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uAXMl-Bfiw)

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laffra|1 year ago

If you sign up for PySheets, we give you 7 tutorials. Two explain how to use AI to import data, convert it to Dataframes, and visualize them using Matplotlib. The generated code is impressive and can help novice data scientists explore the Pandas and Pyplot APIs.

The AI is used to generate Python code, not to analyze or generate data in the sheet. I will clarify that on the landing page. Hopefully, that will inspire you to try it out.

This is a different Kurt Vile :-)