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Vector Databases for Embeddings with Pinecone

Discover how the Pinecone vector database is revolutionizing AI application development!

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Unlock the Power of Embeddings with Pinecone's Vector Database

In the introductory chapters, you'll delve into the fundamentals of Pinecone, understanding its core capabilities, benefits, and key concepts such as pods, indexes, and projects. Through hands-on lessons, you'll compare Pinecone with other vector databases, gaining insights into its unparalleled functionality and usability.

Python Interaction with Pinecone

Equip yourself with the skills to interact seamlessly with Pinecone using Python. Learn to differentiate between pod types, set up your environment, and configure the Pinecone Python client. You will dive into the heart of Pinecone by learning to create vector databases programmatically, understand the parameters influencing Pinecone index creation, including dimensionality, distance metrics, pod types, and replicas, and master the art of ingesting vectors with metadata into Pinecone indexes. You will develop proficiency in querying and retrieving vectors using Python, and gain insights into updating and deleting vectors to handle concept drift effectively.

Advanced Pinecone and AI Applications

Going beyond the fundamentals and explore advanced Pinecone concepts such as monitoring Pinecone performance, tuning for efficiency, and implementing multi-tenancy for access control. You will explore advanced applications, including semantic search engines built on Pinecone and integrating it with OpenAI API for projects like the RAG chatbot.
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  1. 1

    Introduction to Pinecone

    Free

    Explore the mechanics behind Pinecone's vector database, from pods and indexes to comparing it with other databases. Learn to differentiate pod types, acquire API keys, and initialise Pinecone connection using python. Finally, you’ll learn how to create Pinecone indexes, exploring different parameters such as dimensionality, distance metrics, pod types, and others.

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    What is Pinecone?
    50 xp
    Features of Pinecone
    50 xp
    The Pinecone ecosytem
    100 xp
    Who's responsible for what?
    100 xp
    Working with Pinecone in Python
    50 xp
    Choosing pod types
    100 xp
    Install Pinecone Python client
    50 xp
    Initialize Pinecone connection
    100 xp
    Creating Pinecone vector databases
    50 xp
    Create your first index
    100 xp
    Size, speed, and the distance metric
    100 xp
    Advanced index creation
    100 xp
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    Pinecone Vector Manipulation in Python

    Get hands-on with Pinecone in Python, where we explore the practical side of using Pinecone for managing indexes, adding vectors with metadata, searching and retrieving vectors, and making updates or deletions. Gain a solid grasp of the key functions and ideas to smoothly handle data in the Pinecone vector database.

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    Performance Tuning and AI Applications

    In this chapter, learners delve into optimizing Pinecone index performance, leveraging multi-tenant namespaces for cost reduction, building semantic search engines, and creating retrieval-augmented question answering systems using Pinecone with the OpenAI API. Through these lessons, learners gain practical skills in performance tuning, semantic search, and retrieval-augmented question answering, empowering them to apply Pinecone effectively in real-world AI applications.

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Lead Data Scientist

Ryan is a lead data scientist specialising in building AI applications using LLMs and vector databases. He is a PhD candidate in Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Graphs at Imperial College London, where he also completed his Master’s degree in Computer Science. Outside of data science, he writes a weekly newsletter, The Limitless Playbook, where he shares one actionable idea from the world's top thinkers and occasionally writes about core AI concepts.
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