#ai-dtc

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Mark H September 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM

im throwing multiple csvs, looking year over year, looking for trends, patterns, correlations and causations and expecting to be wowed. but whether its chatgpt, julius, shortuct, claude - no one’s able to do it without making mistakes. anyone tried a tool that is actually as close to accurate? even comps they cant do right.

Ronnie Tamburro September 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM

What are you trying to do?

Mark H September 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM

give data to ai, provide context and ask it to analyze the data

Ronnie Tamburro September 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM

And what makes you think it's wrong?

Mark H September 12, 2025 at 11:53 PM

when i look at the raw data to validate what its doing, its wrong

Ronnie Tamburro September 12, 2025 at 11:54 PM

Kinda need more context here. What you're saying is super vague. And without knowing your exact goal, I'm not sure you're going to get much help.

Mark H September 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM

i think what im doing is pretty advanced and expecting to receive information that i had two phd level data scientists do. sure it took them longer, but ai is not that good at data analysis without bumbling things quite often. i was hoping there’s some obscure ai out there that’s actually great for data/marketing/business analyses.

Mark H September 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM

its not a singular thing or a simple ask like “did meta spend cause the first time customer revenue to go up?” - those it can do. its a very large ask of multiple data models to be run against each other to deliver a deep analyses and spit out trends and patterns

Ronnie Tamburro September 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM

What AI is that?

Ken Droddy September 16, 2025 at 11:58 PM

Have you tried a college degree?

Saptarshi Nath September 17, 2025 at 03:19 AM

@Mark H - current AI chat tools are all large language models, which means that they have been trained on large amounts of text. But if you try to use the same thing for analyzing data, LLMs just won't cut it (it fails at basic things like addition and averages sometimes). At least for now. Some tools like rows.com claim to have reached 85% accuracy, but in my opinion, data is either 100% correct or just plain wrong.

You might be able to use it to answer questions where it just needs to pull a data point from the CSV, but not run any operations on it. For example, if you wanted it to tell you the number of sales on a certain date, both of which are on your CSV, then it can pull it out for you (on a good day).

Saptarshi Nath September 17, 2025 at 03:20 AM

I created this for an AI for retail article I wrote.

Anubhav Narula September 24, 2025 at 02:33 PM

Did you try Shopify Sidekick? I have used it for some stores and shows pretty good results

Anubhav Narula September 24, 2025 at 02:34 PM

Don't even need CSVs