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Using Code Interpreter in Assistants for Data Analysis(Development of large model applications 4)

Hello everyone, welcome to the "Development of Large Model Applications" column.

In the previous two articles, we learned how to use Function, as well as the concepts of Thread and Run. Today, let's take it easy and discuss something simpler.

Let's explore how to use the Code Interpreter in Assistants for data analysis.

What is a Code Interpreter?

The name "Code Interpreter" might be misleading. Initially, I thought it was a powerful code analysis tool like GitHub Copilot or CodeLlama, capable of analyzing, completing, or generating code to help developers improve efficiency and code quality.

I assumed that if I fed it a bunch of code, the Code Interpreter would analyze it for me (even though ChatGPT can already handle such tasks without any tools).

However, the Code Interpreter is actually designed to assist with data analysis based on data files. It provides an end-to-end service: generating data analysis code, running it, and presenting the results.

According to OpenAI, the Code Interpreter is a tool hosted on OpenAI servers that allows you to read, process, and analyze data files using Python code.

It supports various common file formats, such as CSV, JSON, and PDF, and can perform slicing, filtering, sorting, grouping, and aggregation operations. It also has built-in data visualization capabilities, allowing you to generate line charts, bar charts, pie charts, and more with one click.

OpenAI charges $0.03 per session for using the Code Interpreter, with each session lasting 1 hour by default.

The Code Interpreter is not only available in Assistants but is also seamlessly integrated into ChatGPT.

For example, if I have a sales data file as shown below, I can use ChatGPT (GPT-4) to analyze the data for me.

https://github.com/dlimeng/awesome-ai-generated/blob/main/openai/flower_sales.csv

After uploading it to GPT-4, ChatGPT's analysis results are shown below.

These results are not just simple text summaries but are processed through Python code.

When we select the following arrows in the ChatGPT interface, we can see the Python code and the generated data analysis results.

In this process, ChatGPT uses the Code Interpreter functionality.

However, the Code Interpreter is now embedded within ChatGPT, and ChatGPT knows when to call it.