nilportugues / chatgpt-data-science-prompts

A repository of 60 useful data science prompts for ChatGPT

🚀 ChatGPT Prompts for Data Science!

The ChatGPT model is a large language model trained by OpenAI that is capable of generating human-like text. By providing it with a prompt, it can generate responses that continue the conversation or expand on the given prompt.

In this repository, you will find prompts that can be used with ChatGPT for data science purposes. It is curated by Travis Tang.

To get started, simply use the prompts below as input for ChatGPT. Replace everything in [squarebrackets] with your own to achieve results specific to your use case.

You can also view the collated prompts (including screenshots of ChatGPT's response) as a PDF here

Adapted from the Awesome ChatGPT repo for Data Science.

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Table of Contents:

1. Write python
2. Explain code
3. Optimize code
4. Format code
5. Translate code from one language to another
6. Explain concepts
7. Suggest ideas
8. Troubleshoot problem
9. Write SQL
10. Write other Code
11. Misc

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WRITE PYTHON

1. Train Classification Model

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and code for me. I have a dataset of [describe dataset]. Please build a machine learning model that predicts [target variable].

2. Automatic Machine Learning

Prompt: I want you to act as an automatic machine learning (AutoML) bot using TPOT for me. I am working on a model that predicts [...]. Please write Python code to find the best classification model with the highest AUC score on the test set.

3. Tune Hyperparameter

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and code for me. I have trained a [model name]. Please write the code to tune the hyperparameters.

4. Explore Data

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and code for me. I have a dataset of [describe dataset]. Please write code for data visualisation and exploration.

5. Generate Data

Prompt: I want you to act as a fake data generator. I need a dataset that has x rows and y columns: [insert column names]

6. Write Regex

Prompt: I want you to act as a coder. Please write me a regex in Python that [describe regex]

7. Train Time Series

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and code for me. I have a time series dataset [describe dataset]. Please build a machine learning model that predicts [target variable]. Please use [time range] as train and [time range] as validation.

8. Address Imbalance Data

Prompt: I want you to act as a coder. I have trained a machine learning model on an imbalanced dataset. The predictor variable is the column [Insert column name]. In Python, how do I oversample and/or undersample my data?

9. Get Feature Importance

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and explain the model's results. I have trained a decision tree model and I would like to find the most important features. Please write the code.

10. Visualize Data with Matplotlib

Prompt: I want you to act as a coder in Python. I have a dataset [name] with columns [name]. [Describe graph requirements]

11. Visualize Image Grid Matplotlib

Prompt: I want you to act as a coder. I have a folder of images. [Describe how files are organised in directory] [Describe how you want images to be printed]

12. Explain Model with Lime

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and explain the model's results. I have trained a [library name] model and I would like to explain the output using LIME. Please write the code.

13. Explain Model with Shap

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and explain the model's results. I have trained a scikit-learn XGBoost model and I would like to explain the output using a series of plots with Shap. Please write the code.

14. Write Multithreaded Functions

Prompt: I want you to act as a coder. Can you help me parallelize this code across threads in Python?

15. Compare Function Speed

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. I would like to compare the efficiency of two algorithms that performs the same task in Python. Please write code that helps me run an experiment that can be repeated for 5 times. Please output the runtime and other summary statistics of the experiment. [Insert functions]

16. Create NumPy Array

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist. I need to create a numpy array. This numpy array should have the shape of (x,y,z). Please initialize the numpy array with random values.

17. Write Unit Test

Credit: @svpino

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. Please write unit tests for the function [Insert function]. The test cases are: [Insert test cases]

18. Validate Column

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist. Please write code to test if that my pandas Dataframe [insert requirements here]

EXPLAIN CODE

19. Explain Python

Credit: @svpino

Prompt: I want you to act as a code explainer. What is this code doing? [Insert code]

20. Explain SQL

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science instructor. Can you please explain to me what this SQL code is doing? [Insert SQL code]

21. Explain Google Sheets Formula

Prompt: I want you to act as a Google Sheets formula explainer. Explain the following Google Sheets command. [Insert formula]

OPTIMIZE CODE

22. Improve Code Speed

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. Please help me improve the time complexity of the code below. [Insert code]

23. Optimize Pandas

Prompt: I want you to act as a code optimizer. Can you point out what's wrong with the following pandas code and optimize it? [Insert code here]

24. Optimize Pandas Again

Prompt: I want you to act as a code optimizer. Can you point out what's wrong with the following pandas code and optimize it? [Insert code here]

25. Optimize Python

Prompt: I want you to act as a code optimizer. The code is poorly written. How do I correct it? [Insert code here]

26. Optimize SQL

Prompt: I want you to act as a SQL code optimizer. The following code is slow. Can you help me speed it up? [Insert SQL]

27. Simplify Python

Prompt: I want you to act as a code simplifier. Can you simplify the following code?

FORMAT CODE

28. Write Documentation

Credit: @svpino

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. Please provide documentation for func1 below. [Insert function]

29. Improve Readability

Prompt: I want you to act as a code analyzer. Can you improve the following code for readability and maintainability? [Insert code]

30. Format SQL

Prompt: I want you to act as a SQL formatter. Please format the following SQL code. Please convert all reserved keywords to uppercase [Insert requirements]. [Insert Code]

TRANSLATE CODE

31. Translate Between DBMS

Prompt: I want you to act as a coder and write SQL code for MySQL. What is the equivalent of PostgreSQL's DATE_TRUNC for MySQL?

32. Translate Python to R

Credit: @svpino

Prompt: I want you to act as a code translator. Can you please convert the following code from Python to R? [Insert code]

33. Translate R to Python

Credit: @svpino

Prompt: I want you to act as a code translator. Can you please convert the following code from R to Python? [Insert code]

EXPLAIN CONCEPTS

34. Explain to Five-Year-Old

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science instructor. Explain [concept] to a five-year-old.

35. Explain to Undergraduate

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science instructor. Explain [concept] to an undergraduate.

36. Explain to Professor

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science instructor. Explain [concept] to a professor.

37. Explain to Business Stakeholder

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science instructor. Explain [concept] to a business stakeholder.

38. Explain Like Stackoverflow

Prompt: I want you to act as an answerer on StackOverflow. You can provide code snippets, sample tables and outputs to support your answer. [Insert technical question]

SUGGEST IDEAS

39. Suggest Edge Cases

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. Please help me catch edge cases for this function [insert function]

40. Suggest Dataset

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science career coach. I want to build a predictive model for [...]. At the same time, I would like to showcase my knowledge in [...]. Can you please suggest the five most relevant datasets for my use case?

41. Suggest Portfolio Ideas

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science coach. My background is in [...] and I would like to [career goal]. I need to build a portfolio of data science projects that will help me land a role in [...] as a [...]. Can you suggest five specific portfolio projects that will showcase my expertise in [...] and are of relevance to [company]?

42. Suggest Resources

Prompt: I want you to act as a data science coach. I would like to learn about [topic]. Please suggest 3 best specific resources. You can include [specify resource type]

43. Suggest Time Complexity

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. Please compare the time complexity of the two algorithms below. [Insert two functions]

44. Suggest Feature Engineering

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and perform feature engineering. I am working on a model that predicts [insert feature name]. There are columns: [Describe columns]. Can you suggest features that we can engineer for this machine learning problem?

45. Suggest Ab Testing Steps

Prompt: I want you to act as a statistician. [Describe context] Please design an A/B test for this purpose. Please include the concrete steps on which statistical test I should run.

46. Career Coaching

Prompt: I want you to act as a career advisor. I am looking for a role as a [role name]. My background is [...]. How do I land the role and with what resources exactly in 6 months?

TROUBLESHOOT PROBLEM

47. Correct Own ChatGPT Code

Prompt: Your above code is wrong. [Point out what is wrong]. Can you try again?

48. Correct Python Code

Prompt: I want you to act as a software developer. This code is supposed to [expected function]. Please help me debug this Python code that cannot be run. [Insert function]

49. Correct SQL Code

Prompt: I want you to act as a SQL code corrector. This code does not run in [your DBMS, e.g. PostgreSQL]. Can you correct it for me? [SQL code here]

50. Troubleshoot PowerBI Model

Credit: Mathias Halkjær Petersen

Prompt: I want you to act as a Power BI modeler. Here is the details of my current project. [Insert details]. Do you see any problems with the table?

WRITE SQL

51. Create Running Average

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist and write SQL code for me. I have a table with two columns [Insert column names]. I would like to calculate a running average for [which value]. What is the SQL code that works for PostgreSQL 14?

52. Solve Leetcode Question

Credit: DataLemur

Prompt: Assume you are given the tables... with the columns... Output the following... [Question from Data Lemur)

WRITE OTHER CODE

53. Write Google Sheets Formula

Prompt: I want you to act as a bot that generates Google Sheets formula. Please generate a formula that [describe requirements]

54. Write R

Prompt: I want you to act as a data scientist using R. Can you write an R script that [Insert requirement here]

55. Write Shell

Prompt: I want you to act as a Linux terminal expert. Please write the code to [describe requirements]

56. Write VBA

Prompt: I want you to act as an Excel VBA developer. Can you write a VBA that [Insert function here]?

MISC

57. Format Tables

Prompt: I want you to act as a document formatter. Please format the following into a nice table for me to place in Google Docs? [insert text table here]

58. Summarize Book

Prompt: I want you to act as a technical book summarizer. Can you please summarize the book [name] with 5 main points?

59. Summarize Paper

Prompt: I want you to act as an academic. Please summarise the paper [...] in simple terms in one paragraph.

60. Provide Emotional Support

Prompt: I want you to provide emotional support to me. [Explain problem here.]