I've been learning Python data visualisation, working through Murat Durmus's Hands-On Introduction to Essential Python Libraries and Frameworks alongside the official Dash tutorial . The resulting code was functional — a basic bar chart comparing data for San Francisco and Montréal — but it looked like exactly what it was: a beginner's first attempt. Plain white background, default colours, numbered axes, and a title that just said "Data Viz." So I decided to run an experiment. Could Claude AI turn a scrappy 20-line script into something genuinely worth showing people? Before running the prompt The First Prompt I pasted the code into Claude.ai with a simple instruction: "Rewrite this following code to be graphically more interesting." The result was striking. Claude switched to a dark "neon terminal" aesthetic — deep navy background, electric teal and magenta accents, and a stylish monospaced font. The bars got proper labels, the axe...
Experiments with various forms of LLMs to improve productivity