DataLab seamlessly and securely connects to all of your

data sources. DataLab’s AI architecture knows where to

look and achieves best-in-class results by leveraging

organizational knowledge, your previous activity, and

industry best practices. Don’t have any data lying

around? DataLab comes prepacked with plenty of

sample data sources to experiment and practice your

data skills.

• Built-in reporting. Forget about copy-pasting across

tools or sharing outdated screenshots to your findings.

As you’re getting answers to questions in DataLab,

you’re accumulating a live-updating report that you can

customize before sharing with others with a single click.

DataLab’s chat interface looks pretty similar to

ChatGPT, and that’s the point! OpenAI managed to

package extremely sophisticated technology into an

intuitive interface. Just because technology is complex,

doesn’t mean the interface needs to be. However,

DataLab goes a couple of steps further, with a

meticulously crafted user experience for data

exploration and analytics.

Our path so far

DataLab is the next iteration of DataCamp Workspace,

an online data notebook with more than 50,000

monthly active users and support for SQL, Python and

R. Next to powering both application-focused learning

experiences on DataCamp such as projects,

competitions and certification practical exams, it is our

users’ go-to tool for their personal and professional data

work.

With the breakthrough of GPT-3.5 and many other

LLMs in early 2023, we immediately saw the

opportunity to make our users even more effective and

Workspace accessible to a bigger user base, both for

study and work.

We added powerful AI features to write, update, fix and

explain code. The built-in Workspace AI Assistant is

smarter than ChatGPT: it takes more context into

account (variables, table names and column types),

leading to higher-quality suggestions and a faster

workflow. Our users are in love with it, too. they achieve

better results faster and with less effort and the AI

assistant’s feedback on e.g. runtime errors is a valuable

opportunity to learn along the way.

The initial feedback on the Workspace AI features was

tremendously positive, so we knew we were onto

something big. People told us that previously intractable

questions now took minutes or even seconds to answer.