ChatGPT Prompts for Data Analysis

Did B actually win, or are you fooling yourself? Give it the numbers — get whether it's real, how confident, and what to do next. No false positives.

Building something and need fake-but-realistic data? Describe the shape — get a clean sample dataset with believable values and the edge cases to test.

Two lists that should match but don't. Paste them — get what's in one but not the other, the duplicates, and the near-matches you'd miss by eye.

Paste your numbers over time — get a straight-talk projection of where they're heading, what could throw it off, and how much to trust it.

Say what you want in plain English, get clean SQL back — plus the gotchas (nulls, dupes, slow joins) you'd only find in production at 2am.

Tracking everything means tracking nothing. Tell it your business — get the handful of numbers that actually matter and how to lay them out.

Hundreds of open-text responses you'll never read? Paste them — get the real themes, the quotes that capture them, and what to actually do about it.

Drowning in rows and need a summary? Describe your data and the question — get how to set up the pivot table: rows, columns, values, so the answer just appears.

Your query's slow and the EXPLAIN output is gibberish. Paste it — get what's actually happening, the bottleneck, and the index or rewrite that fixes it.

Big decision with numbers behind it? Describe it — get a spreadsheet model you can build: the inputs, the formulas, and how to flex assumptions to see what happens.

Got data in the wrong shape? Paste it and say what you need — CSV, JSON, SQL, a table — get it converted cleanly, with the structure handled right.

Paste your data. Get the story behind it, the one surprising thing, and three decisions to make this week. No "it depends."

Paste the spreadsheet nightmare — mixed formats, junk rows, weird dates. Get a clean version and the exact steps to do it yourself next time.

Paste your numbers. Get the one chart that tells the story — and the headline a busy boss will actually remember.