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Northern Illinois University, adapted from Elon University's Student Guide to Artificial Intelligence (2025)New
AI for Data and Numerical Analysis
Readers will learn how to use generative AI to organise datasets, spot patterns, run basic statistics and create visualisations, and which specialised tools like Tableau, PowerBI and WolframAlpha to reach for instead of a chatbot when the maths gets serious. The page also equips them to verify AI output critically by cross-checking results in spreadsheets or statistical software, checking that the right statistical methods were used, and watching for rounding errors. It further warns readers never to share datasets that belong to others or to their organisation with an AI tool without permission.
- Task
- Data & analysis
- Time
- 5 min
- Level
- beginner
- Cost
- Needs a licence — Requires a licence your institution may or may not hold.
- Tools
- Tableau, PowerBI, WolframAlpha, Copilot, DataRobot, RapidMiner, Python libraries
- Published
- 2025 (adaptation date; page itself undated)