
Is GPT-4 Getting Any Better At Quantitative Image Analysis?
Last Updated on December 18, 2024 by Editorial Team
Author(s): John Loewen, PhD
Originally published on Towards AI.
Can it do decent quantitative analysis from a data visualization?
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For me, one of the most useful GPT-4 tools is the ability to analyze and interpret image data.
But how good it this tool now with charting data and with map images?
I wrote an article on this last year:
Prompting GPT-4 for CSV data from line and bar chart images
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With GPT-4o, there have been some pretty big changes — the big question for me is has quantitative analysis of chart and map data improved?
Armed with our GPT-4o prompt, let’s see if GPT-4o has improved in its ability to provide quantitative analysis from chart and map images.
For the first attempt, let’s take a look at a line chart.
The original chart representation, created using Python (from a UN data set on Global Happiness), looks like so:
Let’s save the file as a .PNG image, upload it to GPT-4 and ask it to give us its interpretation of the image.
Response from GPT-4: This line chart is titled “Happiness Scores of Top 5 Countries (2015–2021)” and plots the happiness scores of Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Iceland, and Norway over a period from 2015 to 2021.
GPT-4o also provides overview of the range,… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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