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Welcome. You can do this course without coding. By the end, you can find public data with AI, store it, analyse it, build a simple app, and publish a website.

What you need

You need a laptop, a browser, and a free AI chat account. You do not need a coding tool. Claude Code and Codex are coding assistants that run in a terminal and need a paid plan. Every step here is copy and paste in a chat. Stay on the free plan.

Create a free AI chat account

✅ Free pending test

Pick one. Every prompt in this course works in any of them. Upload limits and caps differ.

Use public data only. Do not paste private or work data into a free AI chat.

Name	Link	Sign-up
Claude	claude.ai	Email, Google, or Apple
ChatGPT	chatgpt.com	Email, Google, Microsoft, or Apple
Gemini	gemini.google.com	Google account
Microsoft Copilot	copilot.microsoft.com	Microsoft account
Grok	grok.com	Email, Google, Apple, or X
Meta AI	meta.ai	Meta account
DeepSeek	chat.deepseek.com	Email or Google
Le Chat by Mistral	chat.mistral.ai	Email or Google

Create a free account with one service, then send this prompt.

Prompt

I am new to AI and studying policy or life sciences. Explain how you can help me explore a public dataset, in three short sentences.

What you should see

You see a chat box, and under your message a reply of about three sentences.

Read the badges

✅ Free pending test Works on a free account.

⚠️ Free, limit: daily upload cap pending test Works on a free account. The limit is named beside the badge.

💳 Paid pending test Needs a paid plan. These lessons stay on the free plan. You may see this label in the build writeup.

“Pending test” means this step has not been tried on a free account yet. You can still do the step.

If the service tells you to wait, save your work and return when it lets you continue.

Your two sessions

Session 1. Find sources, get the data, store it, and explore inflation.
Session 2. Explore oil and gas, build an app, publish a website, try the dashboard, and see how this site was built.