How to use AI in Spreadsheets
🧠Knowledge Series #53: Add some AI superpowers to Google Sheets. Format data, create market analysis, write formulas automatically and more.
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Hi product people 👋,
While most commentators are busy trying to figure out whether AI will replace engineers and creatives, there's one application of AI that's been quietly gaining traction in recent months: the humble spreadsheet.
In this Knowledge Series tutorial, we’ll explore how you can augment your spreadsheets with AI to boost your productivity for use cases like identifying trends, data formatting, categorizing customer feedback with sentiment analysis and more. Plus, thanks to Gemini in Google Sheets, we’ll explain why the days of writing formulas by hand may be coming to an end.
Coming up, how to use AI in spreadsheets to boost your productivity for use cases including:
Summarizing key trends and formatting data without relying on learning complex formulas
Extracting information from visuals for things like bug reports or alt text
Creating meeting agendas, roadmaps and other useful documents from scratch
Quickly translating content into multiple languages for product internationalization
Analyzing sentiment for user research or customer service
A copy of the spreadsheets and videos is also available in the post for you to create your own AI powered spreadsheets.
The tools we’ll use
In order to learn how to use AI in Google Sheets, we’re going to use two different approaches for each of the use cases outlined. This includes using a third party plugin / extension and using Gemini natively inside Google Sheets.
Before we dig into the practical use cases, here’s a bit about each of those and how they work.