Newsletter December: Talk to Your Data - Data & AI Business Design Community

Three months ago, we came up with the idea for an AI app that would make Earth observation data easy-, ready- and free-to-use for everyone, everything, everywhere, everytime. At the end of November, Talk2Earth went live as a demo app at the ESA Ministerial Council meeting in Bremen to showcase Earth Observation + Artificial Intelligence = Earth Intelligence.

Talk to Earth

On Talk2Earth.com, you can ask questions about your location or any other place on Earth in a chat, for example:

Where have there been changes in my city?
What is the snow situation in the Alps?
How is the water quality of the lake nearby?

In response, you will get a map with data visualization. Next, you can save the EO data analysis and share it for re-use as so-called Earthlet (‘Earth Intelligence Applet’).

👉 Try it out for yourself at www.talk2earth.com. 👈

(Disclaimer: Talk2Earth was developed under a programme of, and funded by, the European Space Agency. The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of the European Space Agency.)

LLM for Coding and …

What makes Talk2Earth special is the vibe analysis approach (similar to vibe coding): the data analyses are not pre-coded, but are coded dynamically by an AI. Talk2Earth uses an LLM to transform user queries into Python code. The Python code analyzes the Earth observation data (e.g. from the EU Copernicus programme) and visualizes the results.

Here you can see an analysis of nighttime lighting over Odessa for the years 2012 to 2025 and a decline in nighttime activity following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022:

… Coding with LLM

Generative AI was also used to develop Talk2Earth. What would have taken months and many developers in the past, our team members Philip and Benjamin achieved in just two months using LLM-assisted coding. Thank you very much for that!

Special thanks also go to our client, the European Space Agency (ESA), which has shown that Europe can be both fast and effective. We look forward to continuing our collaboration!

Next year, we will write more about the application and development of Talk2Earth and also present the agentic AI system design at a Lunch & Learn event.

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Here is another Earthlet, which analyzes and visualizes urban change:

Talk to Your Data

The “talk to your data” approach (also known as “chat with your data”) can also be applied to other domains e.g., finance, marketing etc. Instead of dashboards with fixed charts and limited customization options, AI-powered analytics enables both flexibility in breadth (any use cases) and maximum in depth (any user: from beginners to experts).

A “Talk2Data” solution not only provides insights, but also assists with ideation and interpretation. The user defines their goals, the chatbot discovers relevant use cases, develops the required code and delivers the desired results. If the user asks questions about the outcome, the chatbot provides explanations for the analysis. If the user gives feedback on the output, the chatbot makes suggestions for adjustments.

👉 Want to set up your own “Talk to your data” solution? Then talk to Georg Arens: https://calendly.com/georg-arens 👈

Join the Community …

If you want to know what’s next for Talk2Earth, join our free Data & AI Business Design Community. Over a hundred data & AI experts, business decision-makers, and innovation designers have already gathered there to learn about and earn from data & AI business. You get daily insights and special offers. Let us know, what do you think about the community: What do you like? What do you wish?

For Christmas, we have come up with a special promotion: As a community member, you will participate in a prize draw and have the chance to win a Data & AI Business Design Training for next year.

👉 Join the Data & AI Business Design Community: https://community.datentreiber.com 👈

… and the Academy!

Next year, we plan to revise our existing training courses and offer new training formats. In particular, we would like to offer more virtual, English-language, and one-day training courses, including for other time zones, to enable more people worldwide to participate. What do you think of this idea, and what would you like to see from us?

👉 Subscribe to our online calendar for all Datentreiber events: https://luma.com/datentreiber 👈

We are offering further training opportunities in the new year 2026 in cooperation with European educational institutions:

Lectures at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (HWZ) on data & AI strategy, AI ideation, and AI prototyping: CAS AI Management, CAS AI Innovation, EMBA Digital Leadership
Lecture at the Steinbeis Augsburg Business School about data & AI strategy: Datenbasierte Transformation
Lectures at the Steinbeis University – Schools of Next Practices on data strategy & governance, data-driven business models and IT systems: MBA Management Excellence
Lecture about data science at the Controller Institut: Certified Expert in Data Science & Analytics

We Plant Your Trees and …

Speaking of Christmas: instead of buying Christmas presents, we are planting trees on behalf of our customers! This year, we have ordered 26 trees from Plant-My-Tree to be planted in Lüdenscheid.

We planted a tree for every training, workshop, sprint, and more. A heartfelt thank you to all our customers and participants in 2025!

… Monitor Them From Space.

We have planted trees with Plant-my-Tree over the last few years. That’s why we were curious to find out what impact the reforestation had, so we asked Talk2Earth. The result is impressive and visible from space.

👉 See for yourself: https://www.talk2earth.com/?earthlet=plant-my-tree 👈

Btw: From idea to implementation, this Earthlet took only 2 hours—thanks to Talk2Earth!

Merry Xmas & Happy New Year

We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to continuing to work with you in the new year and driving your data & AI business forward together!

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