Is The New GPT-4 Deep Research Tool Any Good? Here’s What I Found
Last Updated on August 29, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): John Loewen, PhD
Originally published on Towards AI.
Prompting to explore data visualization research capabilities
As a data science professor, I have been using GPT-4 daily for more than 2 years to help me with my work. And wow, it really is an outstanding and indispensable tool for many data science and writing tasks.
The article discusses the author’s experience with GPT-4 in data science and writing tasks, highlighting its capability as a research tool while also addressing its shortcomings. It emphasizes the improvements made in the GPT-4o version, particularly the introduction of a “Deep Research” tool designed to enhance research capabilities. The author evaluates how effective this new tool is in providing accurate and consistent research information, contrasts its performance in various tasks, and suggests areas where it still needs improvement, particularly in generating compelling and creative outputs for data storytelling.
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