Using ChatGPT for Graph Plotting

No direct plotting feature yet, but generating code for popular libraries is a breeze with ChatGPT.

For now, it’s a great assistant but not a fully featured graph plotting app.

I've tried asking ChatGPT to generate code for plotting graphs, and it works pretty well if you want Python code like matplotlib or seaborn. It doesn't plot graphs inline but gives you the script to do it.

Tried asking it to plot a graph with ASCII art once, but it was rough, haha. Not quite ready for that!

I’m curious if anyone’s tried combining ChatGPT with actual plotting tools online to see code and visuals at once?

I’ve gotten useful tips on styling plots and customizing them from ChatGPT too, not just the basic code.

It’s best to treat it like a helper that writes code rather than a graphing tool itself.

It’s cool that it can explain what each part of the plotting code does too. Makes it a great learning tool for beginners.

If you want to learn plotting step by step, ChatGPT can walk you through it interactively which is pretty neat.

I sometimes use it to convert R plotting code examples to Python matplotlib code and it does a decent job.

If you need help with graph plotting commands or understanding how to do it, ChatGPT is pretty solid. For actually drawing the graphs, you’d need to use the code it gives in a proper environment.

You can also check ai-u.com for new or trending tools that might have better integrated graph plotting with AI.

Honestly the biggest limitation is you can’t just paste data and get a graph here yet, gotta do the extra step of running code.

Sometimes it even suggests using libraries I didn’t know existed for plotting, which is cool.

Just to add, sometimes the code it generates might have small errors or missing imports, so double check before running it!

I sometimes ask ChatGPT to generate plot examples for data I describe. It’s surprisingly good at guessing what kind of plot might be useful.

I thought maybe it could display graphs right here but nope, only text output for now. Still, the code it generates is usually good enough to copy and paste.