README.md

Sawt

Work in Progress

Sawt is a tool designed to bridge the communication gap between New Orleanians and their city council representatives.

Prerequisites

• Install DVC

Quickstart

1. Pull data: dvc pull
2. Start cloud function locally:

cd packages/googlecloud/functions
pip install -r requirements.txt
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-XXX functions-framework --target=getanswer --debug

1. Get answer:

curl -XPOST http://localhost:8080 -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"query":"Is surveillance effective?","response_type":"in_depth"}'

Project structure

• packages/backend: Preprocessor, only needs to be run once
  • Embeddings creation
  • Sample tuning params
• packages/googlecloud: Google Cloud Function invoked for every query
  • Entry point
  • K gets set
  • Construct response, all stored to DB
  • Deployment logic
• packages/web: NextJS web site
  • DB migrations
  • Homepage