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 ## Recently added/updated 🆕 ✨
 
+- [Embeddings playground (streamlit app)](apps/embeddings-playground/README.md) [May 19th, 2023]
 - [How to use a multi-step prompt to write unit tests](examples/Unit_test_writing_using_a_multi-step_prompt.ipynb) [May 19, 2023]
 - [How to create dynamic masks with DALL·E and Segment Anything](examples/dalle/How_to_create_dynamic_masks_with_DALL-E_and_Segment_Anything.ipynb) [May 19th, 2023]
 - [Question answering using embeddings](examples/Question_answering_using_embeddings.ipynb) [Apr 14th, 2023]
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   - [Clustering embeddings](examples/Clustering.ipynb)
   - [Visualizing embeddings in 2D](examples/Visualizing_embeddings_in_2D.ipynb) or [3D](examples/Visualizing_embeddings_in_3D.ipynb)
   - [Embedding long texts](examples/Embedding_long_inputs.ipynb)
+  - [Embeddings playground (streamlit app)](apps/embeddings-playground/README.md) [May 19th, 2023]
 - Apps
   - [File Q&A](apps/file-q-and-a/)
   - [Web Crawl Q&A](apps/web-crawl-q-and-a)
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+# Embeddings Playground
+
+[`embeddings_playground.py`](embeddings_playground.py) is a single-page streamlit app for experimenting with OpenAI embeddings.
+
+## Installation
+
+Before running, install required dependencies with:
+
+`pip install -r examples/apps/embeddings_playground/requirements.txt`
+
+(You may need to change the path to match your local path.)
+
+Verify installation of streamlit with `streamlit hello`.
+
+## Usage
+
+Run the script with:
+
+`streamlit run examples/apps/embeddings_playground.py`
+
+(Again, you may need to change the path to match your local path.)
+
+In the app, first select your choice of:
+- distance metric (we recommend cosine)
+- embedding model (we recommend `text-embedding-ada-002` for most use cases, as of May 2023)
+
+Then, enter a variable number of strings to compare. Click `rank` to see:
+- the ranked list of strings, sorted by distance from the first string
+- a heatmap showing the distance between each pair of strings
+
+## Example
+
+Here's an example distance matrix for 8 example strings related to `The sky is blue`:
+
+![example distance matrix](example_distance_matrix.png)
+
+From these distance pairs, you can see:
+- embeddings measure topical similarity more than logical similarity (e.g., `The sky is blue` is very close to `The sky is not blue`)
+- punctuation affects embeddings (e.g., `"THE. SKY. IS. BLUE!"` is only third closest to `The sky is blue`)
+- within-language pairs are stronger than across-language pairs (e.g., `El cielo as azul` is closer to `El cielo es rojo` than to `The sky is blue`)
+
+Experiment with your own strings to see what you can learn.
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+"""
+EMBEDDINGS PLAYGROUND
+
+This is a single-page streamlit app for experimenting with OpenAI embeddings.
+
+Before running, install required dependencies with:
+
+`pip install -r apps/embeddings-playground/requirements.txt`
+
+You may need to change the path to match your local path.
+
+Verify installation of streamlit with `streamlit hello`.
+
+Run this script with:
+
+`streamlit run apps/embeddings-playground/embeddings_playground.py`
+
+Again, you may need to change the path to match your local path.
+"""
+
+# IMPORTS
+import altair as alt
+import openai
+import os
+import pandas as pd
+from scipy import spatial
+import streamlit as st
+from tenacity import (
+    retry,
+    stop_after_attempt,
+    wait_random_exponential,
+)
+
+# FUNCTIONS
+
+# get embeddings
+@retry(wait=wait_random_exponential(min=1, max=60), stop=stop_after_attempt(6))
+@st.cache_data
+def embedding_from_string(input: str, model: str) -> list:
+    response = openai.Embedding.create(input=input, model=model)
+    embedding = response["data"][0]["embedding"]
+    return embedding
+
+
+# plot distance matrix
+def plot_distance_matrix(strings: list, engine: str, distance: str):
+    # create dataframe of embedding distances
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"string": strings, "index": range(len(strings))})
+    df["embedding"] = df["string"].apply(lambda string: embedding_from_string(string, engine))
+    df["string"] = df.apply(lambda row: f"({row['index'] + 1}) {row['string']}", axis=1)
+    df["dummy_key"] = 0
+    df = pd.merge(df, df, on="dummy_key", suffixes=("_1", "_2")).drop("dummy_key", axis=1)
+    df = df[df["string_1"] != df["string_2"]]  # filter out diagonal (always 0)   
+    df["distance"] = df.apply(
+        lambda row: distance_metrics[distance](row["embedding_1"], row["embedding_2"]),
+        axis=1,
+    )
+    df["label"] = df["distance"].apply(lambda d: f"{d:.2f}")
+
+    # set chart params
+    text_size = 32
+    label_size = 16
+    pixels_per_string = 80  # aka row height & column width (perpendicular to text)
+    max_label_width = 256  # in pixels, not characters, I think?
+    chart_width = (
+        50
+        + min(max_label_width, max(df["string_1"].apply(len) * label_size/2))
+        + len(strings) * pixels_per_string
+    )
+
+    # extract chart parameters from data
+    color_min = df["distance"].min()
+    color_max = 1.5 * df["distance"].max()
+    x_order = df["string_1"].values
+    ranked = False
+    if ranked:
+        ranked_df = df[(df["string_1"] == f"(1) {strings[0]}")].sort_values(by="distance")
+        y_order = ranked_df["string_2"].values
+    else:
+        y_order = x_order
+
+    # create chart
+    boxes = (
+        alt.Chart(df, title=f"{engine}")
+        .mark_rect()
+        .encode(
+            x=alt.X("string_1", title=None, sort=x_order),
+            y=alt.Y("string_2", title=None, sort=y_order),
+            color=alt.Color("distance:Q", title=f"{distance} distance", scale=alt.Scale(domain=[color_min,color_max], scheme="darkblue", reverse=True)),
+        )
+    )
+
+    labels = (
+        boxes.mark_text(align="center", baseline="middle", fontSize=text_size)
+        .encode(text="label")
+        .configure_axis(labelLimit=max_label_width, labelFontSize=label_size)
+        .properties(width=chart_width, height=chart_width)
+    )
+
+    st.altair_chart(labels)  # note: layered plots are not supported in streamlit :(
+
+
+# PAGE
+
+st.title("OpenAI Embeddings Playground")
+
+# get API key
+try:
+    openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY")
+    st.write(f"API key sucessfully retrieved: {openai.api_key[:3]}...{openai.api_key[-4:]}")
+except:
+    st.header("Enter API Key")
+    openai.api_key = st.text_input("API key")
+
+# select distance metric
+st.header("Select distance metric")
+distance_metrics = {
+    "cosine": spatial.distance.cosine,
+    "L1 (cityblock)": spatial.distance.cityblock,
+    "L2 (euclidean)": spatial.distance.euclidean,
+    "Linf (chebyshev)": spatial.distance.chebyshev,
+    #'correlation': spatial.distance.correlation,  # not sure this makes sense for individual vectors - looks like cosine
+}
+distance_metric_options = list(distance_metrics.keys())
+distance = st.radio("Distance metric", distance_metric_options)
+
+# select models
+st.header("Select models")
+models = [
+    "text-embedding-ada-002",
+    "text-similarity-ada-001",
+    "text-similarity-babbage-001",
+    "text-similarity-curie-001",
+    "text-similarity-davinci-001",
+]
+prechecked_models = [
+    "text-embedding-ada-002"
+]
+model_values = [st.checkbox(model, key=model, value=(model in prechecked_models)) for model in models]
+
+# enter strings
+st.header("Enter strings")
+strings = []
+if "num_boxes" not in st.session_state:
+    st.session_state.num_boxes = 5
+if st.session_state.num_boxes > 2:
+    if st.button("Remove last text box"):
+        st.session_state.num_boxes -= 1
+if st.button("Add new text box"):
+    st.session_state.num_boxes += 1
+for i in range(st.session_state.num_boxes):
+    string = st.text_input(f"String {i+1}")
+    strings.append(string)
+
+# rank strings
+st.header("Rank strings by relatedness")
+if st.button("Rank"):
+    # display a dataframe comparing rankings to string #1
+    st.subheader("Rankings")
+    ranked_strings = {}
+    for model, value in zip(models, model_values):
+        if value:
+            query_embedding = embedding_from_string(strings[0], model)
+            df = pd.DataFrame({"string": strings})
+            df[model] = df["string"].apply(lambda string: embedding_from_string(string, model))
+            df["distance"] = df[model].apply(
+                lambda embedding: distance_metrics[distance](query_embedding, embedding)
+            )
+            df = df.sort_values(by="distance")
+            ranked_strings[model] = df["string"].values
+    df = pd.DataFrame(ranked_strings)
+    st.dataframe(df)
+
+    # display charts of all the pairwise distances between strings
+    st.subheader("Distance matrices")
+    for model, value in zip(models, model_values):
+        if value:
+            plot_distance_matrix(strings, model, distance)
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+altair
+openai
+pandas
+scipy
+streamlit
+tenacity
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