📅 2025-02-17 — Session: Developed Embeddings Analysis Pipeline with UMAP and Plotly

🕒 21:20–22:20
🏷️ Labels: Embeddings, UMAP, Plotly, Python, Clustering
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The goal of this session was to develop and document a comprehensive pipeline for analyzing datasets of embeddings, focusing on dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization.

Key Activities

  1. Guideline Creation: Developed a guide for analyzing embeddings, covering techniques like dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization.
  2. Data Conversion: Implemented Python code to convert CSV string embeddings to lists or NumPy arrays, preparing them for further processing.
  3. UMAP Integration: Converted CSV embeddings for UMAP application, reducing dimensions for visualization.
  4. Visualization with Plotly: Created interactive scatter plots using Plotly, with enhanced features like multiline hover text.
  5. Pipeline Development: Built a pipeline that integrates PCA, UMAP, and K-Means for clustering and visualization of embeddings.
  6. Cosine Distance Calculation: Developed a workflow for calculating cosine distances to identify duplicates or similar ideas in embeddings.
  7. Cluster Representation Strategies: Explored methods for representing clusters, including centroid calculation and content summarization.

Achievements

  • Successfully created a detailed guide and Python scripts for processing and visualizing embeddings.
  • Developed a robust pipeline for embedding analysis using PCA, UMAP, and K-Means.
  • Enhanced visualization techniques with Plotly, including interactive features.

Pending Tasks

  • Further testing and optimization of the pipeline for larger datasets.
  • Exploration of additional clustering techniques and visualization tools.