From the course: Enhancing Excel with Generative AI Tools
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Structure data inputs with Markdown
From the course: Enhancing Excel with Generative AI Tools
Structure data inputs with Markdown
- When using free generative AI tools, you'll often find yourself manually entering datasets into the prompt box, as there's usually no file upload option. This is where knowing to use Markdown could be a real game changer. Markdown is a simple markup language that formats plain text into structured content like table, lists, and headers quickly and easily. By structuring your data in Markdown, you provide the AI with clean, organized information, improving the quality of the AI's analysis. Imagine you're analyzing data in Excel, but the AI tool doesn't support direct file uploads. Let's use the example dataset structuring-with-markdown in the exercise files for the scenario. We'll take this data, copy it, and paste it into a ChatGPT prompt box. If you paste a misaligned unstructured data set like this into generative AI, it doesn't just throw you off, it might throw off the AI too. Generative AI relies on well-organized data to interpret structure and context. Without clear…
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