AI for Spreadsheet Analysis makes it possible to work with data without writing formulas – the user asks a question in plain language and the tool calculates the result, prepares an overview or a chart. This is especially useful for people who need data but do not have time to learn advanced functions: sales, operations, management. It handles cleaning and unifying data equally well, which is otherwise tedious. Caution is warranted on two points. The result should be verified at least on a sample, because the tool can misunderstand what a given column means, especially with unclear headers. And for company data, consider what is being entered into the tool – a spreadsheet with customers contains personal data. Named columns and a data dictionary help.
See also: Data dictionary, Data quality in analytics, Internal AI usage policy.
