Get Started with Chroma DB and Retrieval Models using LangChain
A walk-through tutorial on how to use your data and ask questions using LangChain
4 min readFeb 16, 2024
In this tutorial, we will provide a walk-through example of how to use your data and ask questions using LangChain. The steps are the following:
- Load the Document
- Create chunks using a text splitter
- Create embeddings from the chunks
- Store the embeddings in a vector database (Chroma DB in our case)
- Use a retrieval model to get similar documents to your question
- Feed the ChatGPT model with the content of similar documents to get a tailored answer
- Explain who to keep the memory of your conversation to have a chat with your data
Let’s jump into the coding part!
Load the required libraries
from langchain.document_loaders import TextLoader
from langchain.text_splitter import CharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.chains import RetrievalQA
from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate
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