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A Hobbit’s Guide to Structuring and Querying Data with Elasticsearch and GPT


My dear hobbits, today I wish to share with you a fascinating tale of organizing and searching data using marvelous technologies known as Elasticsearch and GPT-3. Pardon me if I get a bit technical, but I promise to make it as simple and enjoyable as possible, like a warm night by the fire in Bag End.

The Journey Begins: Understand Your Data Structure

Our adventure begins with data, a collection of facts in a raw, unorganized form. It’s like a map of Middle Earth without any labels, truly confusing! But, fear not, we’ll label the landmarks and pathways soon. JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, a common data format, is our “map” in this case.

For instance, consider a JSON document which stores some peculiar details of my journey to Erebor and back:


{
    "distance": 1362,
    "activityType": "IN_PASSENGER_VEHICLE",
    "confidence": "HIGH",
    "activities": [{
        "activityType": "IN_PASSENGER_VEHICLE",
        "probability": 97.79937267303467
    }, {
        "activityType": "STILL",
        "probability": 1.676051877439022
    },
    {...}
    ]
}

You can see it includes a series of “activities”, and each activity consists of two properties – “activityType” and “probability”.

Stop at The Prancing Pony: Flatten Your Data

Imagine trying to find our way through a dense cluster of trees without a path. That’s how using nested complex data feels to Elasticsearch—an open-source search and analytics engine—and understanding the path is difficult. To help Elasticsearch (and ourselves), we need to flatten our data, akin to carving out a path through the forest.

Here’s how our data looks after a bit of path carving:


{
    "distance" : 1362,
    "activityType" : "IN_PASSENGER_VEHICLE",
    "confidence" : "HIGH",
    "activities_activityType" : ["IN_PASSENGER_VEHICLE", "STILL", "WALKING", "MOTORCYCLING", "CYCLING", "FLYING"],
    "activities_probability" : [97.79937267303467, 1.676051877439022, 0.4063430707901716, 0.07339477306231856, 0.016033562133088708, 0.008356613398063928]
}

Isn’t it much simpler to traverse? Now the “activities” field has been unwound into two separate fields, making it easier for Elasticsearch to understand.

Rivendell: Enter Elasticsearch

Now that our data is ready, we can use Elasticsearch to store and search this data efficiently. This is like how Elrond’s library in Rivendell can store and retrieve countless parchments easily.

Elasticsearch is incredibly versatile! We can ask it various questions about our data, akin to asking Gandalf about ancient lore and forgotten languages.

The Lonely Mountain: Summoning GPT-3

At last, we arrive at the climax of our journey, where we invoke the power of Generative Pretraining Transformer 3 (GPT-3). This AI model, created by OpenAI, is like Smaug the dragon—it understands and generates human-like text. So, we can ask GPT-3 questions in our language, and it responds likewise!

We ask GPT-3 a question, send that to Elasticsearch to fetch data, and return that data to GPT-3, who spins it into a beautifully coherent response.

The Journey Ends: Resulting Magic

And voilà, my dear hobbits! We’ve now grasped the basics of structuring data for Elasticsearch, querying it, and finally integrating it with GPT-3. It’s almost magical, isn’t it? Quite a hallmark of our journey from Hobbiton to the Lonely Mountain, unraveling knowledge and mystery along the way.

Till our next adventure, my dear hobbits!


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