Prompt Engineering for Data Tasks

Summary

Writing clear, structured prompts to get an LLM to perform data tasks — labeling, summarizing, extracting structured information — often faster to set up than training a dedicated model.

• 1Use an LLM to label or summarize a small sample of unstructured text data.
• 2Practice iterating on a prompt to improve consistency of the output format.
• 3Learn where LLM-based labeling is reliable enough to use, and where it still needs human review.