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As an ML engineer, lots of time goes into data engineering.
Can conversational AI systems like ChatGPT help?
Turns out @AkkioHQ shipped an amazing tool that lets you “chat” with your data. Here is how it works:
When preparing data to train an ML model, you need to process, transform & clean it. What if you don’t need SQL or Python to do this?
Akkio’s new exciting feature “Chat Data Prep” allows you to transform data just using text instructions.
Let's look at an example ↓
Let’s say we want to train a sentiment classifier on a restaurant reviews dataset. Here are two transformations you can perform on the text data:
- Removing punctuations
- Lowercase text
@AkkioHQ is brilliant for this! Here is a preview of the data and interface:
Data is never perfect, especially text. You should expect to do a lot of cleaning. I like the idea of just using natural language instructions to get this job done.
As a quick example, here is how I instructed Chat Data Prep to remove punctuations:
I am also interested in converting all the text into lowercase, which is common when processing NLP datasets.
Here is how to easily do it with one text command via Chat Data Prep:
One cool feature I like about @AkkioHQ is the ability to quickly train a model to test the impact of the data transformations. Again, no code is needed!
I can see that the transformations I applied boosted the performance of the model. ML is iterative so this is really useful!
And you can do a lot more! Here is a demo of two more popular and useful data transformations you can do with Chat Data Prep:
- 3 sigma outlier removal
- Date reformatting
@AkkioHQ also has useful integrations like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Google Sheets to easily access your data stores and start finding value in your data.
You can even deploy a web app or production-ready API. This really accelerates experimentation and deployment.
I get super excited to see how AI-powered tools like Chat Data Prep are boosting developer productivity.
These AI-powered tools are redefining what it is to build ML-powered apps. Excited about this partnership with Akkio and what’s ahead! Check them out here: @AkkioHQ

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