If you haven't already had a play with Google's NotebookLM - https://notebooklm.google/ - you really should have a look. For example, even from a very simple business data point of view, you could upload your own notes, market and competitor research and ask NotebookLM to identify trends. Lovely jubbly.

Just a quick straw poll, lovely people. How often do you use ChatGPT?...

GenAI (derived from the phrase 'Generative Artificial Intelligence'): A type of computer technology that can create new things - like text, images, music or even videos - by learning patterns from existing examples. It doesn’t just copy what already exists; it produces something original.

If you've been avoiding platforms like ChatGPT up til now, make the leap today and start playing with them from today for five minutes a day. Unless you want to forever do data analysis with one arm tied behind your back, that is...

It is much easier to get data from images nowadays. A very simple but interesting example of this is the 'reverse image search'. Open our old friend Google, click on the camera button shown in the screen-grab below and drag or upload an image of your choice. You might be surprised by how useful this is.