🚀 Gretel to Opik Integration: Creating Q&A Datasets for Model Evaluation
The Story: You need high-quality Q&A datasets to evaluate your AI models, but creating them manually is time-consuming and expensive. This cookbook shows you how to use Gretel’s synthetic data generation to create diverse, realistic Q&A datasets and import them into Opik for model evaluation and optimization.
What you’ll accomplish:
- Generate synthetic Q&A data using Gretel Data Designer
- Convert it to Opik format
- Import into Opik for model evaluation
- See your dataset in the Opik UI
📋 Prerequisites
- Gretel Account: Sign up at gretel.ai and get your API key
- Comet Account: Sign up at comet.com for Opik access
Let’s get started! 🎯
🛠️ Two Approaches Available
This cookbook demonstrates two methods for generating synthetic data with Gretel:
- Data Designer (recommended for custom datasets): Create datasets from scratch with precise control
- Safe Synthetics (recommended for existing data): Generate synthetic versions of existing datasets
We’ll start with Data Designer, then show Safe Synthetics as an alternative.
💾 Step 1: Install Required Packages
We’ll install the Gretel client and Opik SDK:
🔐 Step 2: Authentication Setup
Let’s authenticate with both Gretel and Opik:
📊 Step 3: Generate Q&A Dataset with Gretel Data Designer
Now we’ll use Gretel Data Designer to generate synthetic Q&A data. We’ll create questions and answers about AI and machine learning:
🔄 Step 4: Convert to Opik Format
Let’s convert our Gretel-generated data to the format Opik expects:
📤 Step 5: Push Dataset to Opik
Now let’s upload our dataset to Opik where it can be used for model evaluation:
The trace can now be viewed in the UI:
✅ Step 6: Verify Your Dataset
Let’s confirm the dataset was created successfully and see how to use it:
🧪 Step 7: Example Model Evaluation
Here’s how you can use your new dataset to evaluate a model with Opik:
Congratulations! 🎉 You’ve successfully:
- Generated synthetic Q&A data using Gretel Data Designer’s advanced column types
- Converted the data to Opik’s expected format
- Created a dataset in Opik for model evaluation
- Set up the foundation for AI model testing and optimization
The key advantage of using Gretel Data Designer is its modular approach - you can define exactly what data you want using samplers (for categories) and LLM columns (for generated text), giving you precise control over your synthetic dataset.
🔗 Next Steps
- View your dataset: Go to your Comet workspace → Opik → Datasets
- Evaluate models: Use the dataset to test your Q&A models
- Optimize prompts: Use Opik’s Agent Optimizer with your synthetic data
- Scale up: Generate larger datasets for more comprehensive testing
📚 Resources
Happy evaluating! 🚀
🔄 Alternative: Using Gretel Safe Synthetics
If you have an existing Q&A dataset and want to create a synthetic version, you can use Gretel Safe Synthetics instead:
Step A: Prepare Sample Data
Step B: Generate Synthetic Version
Step C: View Results and Quality Report
Step D: Convert to Opik and Upload
The trace can now be viewed in the UI:
🚨 Important: Dataset Size Requirements
🤔 When to Use Which Approach?
Both approaches integrate seamlessly with Opik for model evaluation! 🎯