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A prompt to start with
New to this? Copy a prompt like the one below into Claude, then adapt it to your task. Be specific about your role, your goal, and the constraints.
You are helping a research scientist. I have a CSV of daily station
temperatures (columns: date, station_id, tmax_c). I want to compute
monthly means per station and flag months with >5 missing days.
- Walk me through the approach before writing code.
- Use pandas; explain each step briefly.
- Point out any assumptions you are making.
Tip
Ask the model to explain its plan before it writes code. It is faster to correct a plan than to debug a wrong implementation.
Caution
AI output can be confidently wrong. Verify numbers, citations, and code against trusted sources before relying on them — especially for published results.