Ask the Box Score Anything: Natural Language Queries with querychat · Free live session · AthlyticZ
Free live session · Wednesday September 9

Ask the Box Score Anything: Natural Language Queries with querychat

Point a chat interface at a real dataset and ask it questions in plain English. Wire up querychat, ground the model in your actual schema, and see where natural language querying holds up and where it needs guardrails.

  • Free · live
  • Wednesday September 9
  • 09:00-10:15 EDT · 15:00-16:15 CEST
  • 75 minutes
  • Intermediate
  • Live seat, no card
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Who this hour is for

Three people this session was built for.

You analyze, but the questions arrive faster than you can query

Coaches, managers, and colleagues ask you things all day, and every answer costs you a query you write by hand. You leave with a pattern for letting them ask the data directly, safely.

You are technical, but LLM tooling still feels like a demo

You have seen the demos and do not trust them with real data. This session is the un-demo: a working build against a real dataset, including where the pattern breaks and what the guardrails are.

You are deciding whether this stack is worth your learning time

One free session, one real build, taught live by someone who does this work. You will know by the end of the hour whether this belongs on your roadmap.

A live build, not a lecture

From Plain English Question to Real Query

querychat sits between a person and a dataset. Someone types a question in plain English, the model writes the query, and the app returns results from the real data rather than from the model's memory. This session wires that path end to end against a live dataset, then works the edges: how grounding the model in your actual schema keeps answers honest, and where the pattern still needs guardrails before you hand it to someone non-technical.

You will watch this get built

  • A chat interface that answers questions about your data in plain English
  • A querychat app wired to a real dataset, running locally
  • A reusable pattern for adding natural-language querying to any project

You will leave knowing

  • How querychat turns plain-English questions into real queries
  • How to ground an LLM in your actual data so answers stay accurate
  • Where natural-language querying helps and where it needs guardrails
  • How to give non-technical users a safe way to explore data
Who teaches it

Taught live by the person who does the work.

Nic Crane, PhDBuilds LLM-powered data tools in R. This session: natural language queries over real sports data. Live means live: you watch the build happen, you ask questions in the room, and the decisions get explained as they are made.
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One free hour. Here is the whole deal.

  • Date · Wednesday September 9
  • Time · 09:00-10:15 EDT · 15:00-16:15 CEST
  • Length · 75 minutes
  • Cost · Free
  • Format · Live, 75 minutes, questions in the room
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