Workshop Preparation Instructions

Please see the following video for step-by-step instructions (written instructions below):

IMPORTANT

Our workshop structure currently only supports Facebook Messenger and/or Twitter data. You can use either Facebook Messenger files if you have those locally saved in your folder (see below) and/or Twitter data (no local data log files needed for that).

Instruction Steps

DATA DOWNLOAD

Note: Do this as soon as possible since the Facebook Data Download may take a while (up to 48 hours) to be ready for downloading.

1. Log in to your Facebook account and download your data file on your laptop/desktop.
   • Click on your profile image in the top right
   • Click on Settings & Privacy
   • Click on Settings
   • Click on Privacy
   • Click on Your Facebook Information
   • Click on View next to Download Profile Information
   • Under Select File Options, choose Format JSON and Date Range All Time
   • Under Select Information to Download, click Deselect All
   • Once all data types are deselected, reselect Messages
   • Scroll to the very bottom and hit Request a Download. Note: it may take some time for the download to be ready, so do this in advance of the workshop.
2. On your Desktop, create a folder called Finetuning (or any other name you desire, just make sure you adapt future steps accordingly).
3. Go to Github and download the required script. https://github.com/Gryphire/GPTscraper Save them to your Finetuning folder.
4. Once you have downloaded your data package, which will be in the form of a .zip file, open it up.
   • Select the Messages folder, and copy-paste it into your Finetuning folder.

SOFTWARE PREP

1. Set up OpenAI account (for both Mac and Windows users):
   • Create an OpenAI account on https://beta.openai.com/signup
2. Installing Xcode and Homebrew (for Mac users only!):
   • For Xcode:
     • Check if you have Xcode installed. In your Terminal, type ‘xcode-select -p’. If a path is returned, you have Xcode already installed.
     • If you still need to get Xcode, go to the App Store on your Mac, search for Xcode and download+install from the App Store.
     • Final step is to ensure you have the command line tools associated with Xcode installed as well. Head to your Terminal and type in: Xcode-select –install
     • Once you do this, you should have all necessary Xcode tools installed!
   • For Homebrew:
     • Follow the instructions in this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19fApnIlCoWIKPVIP7EbpgHH6HNorXSCb/view?usp=share_link Note: The Homebrew installation might take some time (e.g., 10 minutes or more), so keep that in mind.
3. Installing Python 3 (for both Mac and Windows users):
   • For Mac users:
     • Checking if Python 3 is already installed on your machine. To check this, go to the Terminal and type: ‘python3 –version’. If it returns a Python version as response, you know you have Python 3 installed already.
     • If you find that you need to install Python 3, do this through the Terminal once more: ‘brew install python3. Please note: the installation of Python 3 may take up to 30 minutes, so keep this in mind.
   • For Windows users:
     • Checking is Python 3 is already installed on your machine.
     • If you find that you need to install Python 3, first go to the Python website (www.python.org.downloads).
     • Hit ‘Download the Latest Version for Windows’.
     • Once the download is complete, run the .exe file.
     • Make sure that you check ‘Add Python to PATH’ on the first installation screen.
     • On the final installation screen, make sure to click ‘Disable path limit length’.
     • Once installation is complete, open your Command Prompt (NOTE: NOT your Python prompt, but the Command Prompt!) and run the following command (but remember to insert your own username first): cd C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Python.
     • Now that you are located in the installation folder, check that the installation has gone well by typing in: python.exe. If this command returns a Python version that matches the one you download from the Python website, the installation has gone to plan.
     • Make sure you exit the command prompt because now you are in the python interpreter. Exit and restart the Command Prompt.

The finetuning and scraping steps we will complete during the workshop.