Introduction to RAG at EARL

The Enterprise Applications of the R Language Conference (EARL) conference has usually been exclusively for the R community, but this year a good portion of the programme will be dedicated to Python, and we're going to be there.

The first day is on the 3rd September and it's been dedicated to workshops. What's great about the workshops is that we've got time to really explore the ideas and impart the skills because each workshop is a half-day. We're delighted to be presenting a session on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG for short).

If you don't know what RAG is yet, maybe you should come along. It's currently one of the main techniques you'll need to learn to build capable chatbots. In essence, it allows you to control the information visible to your chatbot, so you can get your bot to answer questions using your companies data.

We'll be covering the fundamentals of RAG which will also include Embedding and Vector Databases.

Expect to leave this workshop with a good overview of the tools and techniques you'll need to build semantic search and RAG capable bots. We'll teach you the lessons we've learned the hard way while building our bots.

Look forward to seeing you there.