New blog post: Dr. Holger Döring writes about his experience in using ChatGPT to conduct a simple analysis of turnout with ESS data


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Dr. Holger Döring: ChatGPT: A tutor for data analysis?
DOI: 10.34879/gesisblog.2023.67

ChatGPT is an interesting new tool to support data analysis in the social sciences. It can be used to get suggestions for data analysis methods and for writing code. In this post, I summarize my experience in using ChatGPT to conduct a simple analysis of turnout with the ESS 2018.

Using ChatGPT in data analysis feels a little like switching from a bicycle to a pedelec. You can drive more effortlessly and potentially faster; however you still need to know how to ride a bike if you want to move forward and don’t want to fall off.