Sidekick is an AI-powered data assistant from mySidewalk that helps you use data to drive community progress.
During the open beta, Sidekick is available at no extra cost. It allows you to quickly access data, create visualizations, and gain insights on demand.
What is Sidekick?
Sidekick is a chat-based assistant designed to simplify data-driven tasks. It references mySidewalk’s data library to provide fast, accurate answers, visualizations, and insights, helping you make decisions anytime, anywhere.
Key Benefits:
Mobile-friendly and standalone.
Uses mySidewalk’s trusted data library.
Supports quick, impactful decision-making.
Navigating to Sidekick
1. Open Sidekick on your desktop or mobile browser.
2. Log in with your mySidewalk credentials.
3. You will land on the conversation screen (see image below).
Simply type your question or request into the text box, and Sidekick will respond.
What Can Sidekick Do?
Sidekick excels at tasks like:
• Recommending data on specific topics.
• Answering location-based questions.
• Creating interactive maps.
• Writing data stories.
For tips on getting the best results, visit the Sidekick Prompt Library.
✋🏼 Before You Start
To get the most out of Sidekick, explore these helpful resources. During the beta, Sidekick will continuously improve, and so will your ability to get the best results from it.
These guides will help you succeed:
Dive in and start exploring! 🚀
Help Improve Sidekick
Your feedback is essential for improving Sidekick. Use the thumbs up/down feature to rate responses, and complete the feedback form linked in the sidebar to share your overall experience.
All feedback will help shape future updates to Sidekick, ensuring it meets your needs.
Using Sidekick Responsibly
Sidekick incorporates OpenAI’s language models. These models are trained on a wide range of online content which may reflect societal biases. OpenAI is working to reduce these risks, and we are committed to responsible AI usage. We also encourage you to:
Familiarize yourself with your organization's AI usage policies.
Always verify the accuracy of Sidekick's outputs.
Sidekick will show its work when retrieving data - just click "Show work."
You can also send data from Sidekick to Seek, where you can verify the data values match.
Report any biased or inaccurate responses.
For more information on mySidewalk's guidelines for responsible AI use, refer to our AI Principles.