20-Minute Mentors

Leveraging ChatGPT for Data Analysis and Course Preparation

Learn how to use ChatGPT to clean, analyze, and visualize data while creating engaging classroom assignments through practical prompts and responsible AI strategies that keep your expertise at the center.

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ChatGPT offers exciting opportunities to simplify data analysis and course preparation, but many educators are unsure how to use it effectively without compromising accuracy or academic rigor. From cleaning inconsistent data and identifying patterns to developing engaging classroom assignments, these tasks can be time-consuming. Without a clear approach, instructors may either miss out on AI’s potential or rely too heavily on results that have not been verified.

In this 20-Minute Mentor, Katrice Branner demonstrates practical ways to use ChatGPT as a companion for data analysis and course preparation. Learn how to write focused prompts to clean data, explore and visualize datasets, and create realistic classroom assignments and exercises. You’ll discover strategies for improving AI-generated results, verifying accuracy, and maintaining human oversight so you can work more efficiently while keeping your expertise and judgment at the center of teaching and learning.

After viewing this Magna 20-Minute Mentor, participants will be able to: 

  • Explain how ChatGPT is changing data analysis and course preparation 
  • Identify responsible applications and common limitations of ChatGPT in analyzing datasets 
  • Construct and refine prompts for data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and visualization 
  • Use ChatGPT to generate practice datasets and student assignments that support data-cleaning skills 
  • Apply strategies for verifying AI-generated results and maintaining human oversight 

TOPICS COVERED 

  • Understand why ChatGPT is considered a disruptive technology and how generative AI differs from information retrieval 
  • Recognize the benefits and limitations of ChatGPT 
  • Use ChatGPT as a data analysis companion  
  • Write focused prompts to clean a specific field or create charts that reveal patterns 
  • Generate realistic datasets and data-cleaning assignments for course preparation 
  • Use prompts to create instructions, exercises, and varying levels of difficulty 
  • Improve prompt results by specifying context, starting small, testing, and verifying outputs 

AUDIENCE

This program will benefit:

  • College and university faculty, particularly those teaching data analysis, business, or quantitative courses 
  • Instructional designers and learning experience designers 
  • Faculty development and teaching center professionals 
  • Academic leaders exploring responsible AI integration 
  • Online, hybrid, and face-to-face instructors 
  • Educators seeking practical applications of ChatGPT for classroom preparation 

Product Code: PM26IA

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With the purchase of the optional Campus Access License, registrants are granted a license to download the program contents to a password-protected network, server, or website for additional staff use. You will receive information on downloading the contents of the program within 3-5 business days after payment has been received by Magna.

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