MAIN DEMOSimple Websites with ChatGPT Canvas and Github Pages
It's surprisingly simple and free to create websites with AI and deploy them on GitHub Pages. No coding experience required.
1Websites, Documents and Presentations
Week Focus: Create professional content with AI-powered tools. Learn to build websites, generate documents, and design presentations using AI assistance.
Additional Tools & Techniques
Using GrapesJS to Edit AI Websites
Don't want to go back to the AI for every small change? GrapesJS lets you edit websites visually without touching code.
LaTeX, AI and Overleaf for PDF Documents EXTERNAL
LaTeX creates beautiful academic papers, CVs, posters and reports, but it's hard to learn. AI can write LaTeX for you, and Overleaf makes it easy to use online.
Gamma for AI Presentations EXTERNAL
Everyone keeps asking "where is ChatGPT for PowerPoint?" Gamma is the best "ChatGPT for PowerPoint" available right now.
2Automated Data Analysis
Week Focus: Automate data analysis tasks using AI-powered coding assistants. Learn to process data, create visualizations, and generate insights without manual coding.
MAIN DEMO Cursor Coding Agent for R
With the right prompts, you can automate data analysis tasks using an AI-powered IDE Cursor. The AI writes code, runs it on your data, observes output and errors, then updates based on mistakes.
Alternative Tools & Approaches
ChatGPT Code Interpreter for Simple Data Analysis EXTERNAL
ChatGPT can run code to generate simple data analyses. Great for quick data exploration and simple visualizations, though it can only run Python and code isn't editable currently.
Julius AI for Data Analysis EXTERNAL
Julius AI offers a chat interface where AI can run Python and R, code is editable, your data is persistent, and lots of other quality of life features for data analysts. Great for beginners who don't want to use a full IDE or for quick analyses.
WindSurf Coding Agent EXTERNAL
Windsurf is an alternative to Cursor with a decent free plan. Currently not as strong as Cursor based on recent testing, but worth exploring if you're not ready to pay for Cursor.
Bricks AI for Spreadsheet & Dashboard Automation EXTERNAL
TheBricks.com is a tool where you can use natural-language prompts ("make a new column with the sum of sales and donations minus the VAT column") to manipulate spreadsheets and build simple dashboards without writing formulas.
3GenAI for Text Processing & Research
Week Focus: Use AI for text processing and research tasks. Learn to classify text, analyze sentiment, summarize documents, and conduct research using AI tools.
MAIN DEMO Text Classification, Sentiment Analysis and Summarization
Using LLMs in a loop lets you automate lots of text-processing tasks, and spreadsheets are a great way to do this. Learn to integrate OpenRouter with Google Sheets for scalable text analysis.
Research & Literature Review Tools
OpenAI Deep Research EXTERNAL
Let AI do the googling for you. ChatGPT's deep-research mode and tools like it will search the web repeatedly and compile comprehensive reports on any topic you're investigating.
Simple Literature Reviews with ElicitEXTERNAL
Elicit lets you search academic literature and get AI-powered summaries of research papers, making literature reviews much faster and more comprehensive.
LiterevAcademic Literature Review Tool
A home-grown platform built at The Graph Network for academic literature reviews. Literev.unige.ch is still early-stage yet already offers powerful clustering, filtering and summarisation features—and we can tailor it to your specific research workflows. Reach out if you want some customisation.
4Custom GPTs and Chatbots
Week Focus: Build custom AI assistants and chatbots. Learn to create specialized AI tools for your organization and deploy interactive chatbots for various use cases.
MAIN DEMO Creating and Embedding Interactive Chatbots with Botpress
Botpress is one of the most mature yet easiest-to-use platforms for building bots with modern LLMs. In this tutorial, you'll build a simple bot and embed it on your website.
Custom AI Assistant Solutions
Custom GPTsEXTERNAL
Custom GPTs in ChatGPT let you build internal AI assistants with custom knowledge bases and instructions. Great for team-specific tasks and workflows.
NotebookLM EXTERNAL
You can upload documents to Google's NotebookLM and query them like a database. It can even turn documents into podcast-style audio.
5AI for Workflow Automation
Week Focus: Traditional automation gets much more powerful with AI in the mix. Learn to build intelligent automation systems that can make decisions and handle complex tasks.
MAIN DEMO Intro to Workflow Automation with Make.Com
Make.com is a popular workflow-automation platform with affordable pricing and a decent free plan. Takes some getting used to, but it's a valuable skill.
Other Automation Use Cases
Real-World Make.com Automations EXTERNAL
Explore real-world example use cases and see how different organizations use Make.com for their automation needs.
Make AI Agents EXTERNAL
Make.com now has a new interface for building AI agents that choose their own tools based on what they need to accomplish, rather than following a fixed sequence. AI agents are still a bit hard to control, but worth getting familiar with.
Convergence AI Demo: Browser-Control Agents EXTERNAL
Since modern VLLMs have decent vision capabilities, instead of relying on APIs they can actually use many websites like a human. Many companies are productionising this, but Convergence has one of the best interfaces and affordable pricing.
Shortwave: AI Inbox Assistant EXTERNAL
Shortwave brings an AI copilot straight to Gmail and Outlook. Search your inbox intelligently, draft replies, summarise threads, schedule meetings and more.
Serif.ai: AI Email Drafts EXTERNAL
Serif.ai reads your emails and drafts replies based on your past responses. A great tool to save you hours every week. In testing on my personal inbox, nearly half of the AI's drafts were pretty close to what I would have said anyways.