Claude advanced 2 – data analysis 🆕

Data analysis and understanding are becoming increasingly important in data-intensive work, and Claude is one of the best AI tools for helping with this. You can use it to process and explore spreadsheets, CSV files, and other datasets, and Claude helps you identify what is relevant, perform calculations, and create reports.

Goal

Learn how to use Claude for data analysis, visualization, and report creation. Understand when a static report is sufficient and when an interactive artifact is the better option.

Target audience

For professionals, analysts, managers, and project managers who work with numbers, reports, or tabular data in their work. No programming skills are required. We recommend completing Claude Basics 1–2 and Claude Advanced 1 before taking this course.

Software version

The course uses Anthropic Claude (web version or desktop application). The course itself does not require a paid Claude subscription, but data analysis often requires Claude’s best models, which are not available to free users.

Content

Uploading data and initial prompting

• Importing CSV, Excel, and PDF tables into Claude
• First look at the data: asking Claude to describe what the data contains
• Identifying missing data, outliers, and errors

Formulating analysis questions

• Which numbers are you interested in: guidelines for writing a good analysis prompt
• Comparison, trend, outlier: different analysis perspectives
• Combining multiple files into the same analysis

Creating reports

• Producing a written summary and key findings
• Creating tables and lists in Word format
• Creating bar, line, and pie charts
• Interactive data

Keywords

Claude, data analysis, Excel, CSV, report, visualization, artifacts, charts, tables, productivity, AI