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Using NotebookLM to help with understanding Oracle Analytics Cloud or any other product

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Over the past few months, we’ve seen a plethora of new LLM related products/agents being released. One such one is NotebookLM from Google. The offical description say “NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking tool from Google Labs that allows users to ground a large language model (like Gemini) in their own documents, such as PDFs, Google Docs, website URLs, or audio, acting as a personal, intelligent research assistant. It facilitates summarizing, analyzing, and querying information within these specific sources to create study guides, outlines, and, notably, “Audio Overviews” (podcast-style summaries)”

Let’s have a look at using NotebookLM to help with answering questions and how it can help with understanding Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC).

Yes, you’ll need a Google account, and Yes you need to be OK with uploading your documents to NotebookLM. Make sure you are not breaking any laws (IP, GDPR, etc). It’s really easy to create your first notebook. Simply click on ‘Create new notebook’.

When the notebook opens, you can add your documents and webpages to the notebook. These can be documents in PDF, audio, text, etc to the notebook repository. Currently, there seems to be a limit of 50 documents and webpages that can be added.

The main part of the NotebookLM provides a chatbot where you can ask questions, and the NotebookLM will search through the documents and webpages to formulate an answer. In addition to this, there are features that allow you to generate Audio Overview, Video Overview, Mind Map, Reports, Flashcards, Quiz, Infographic, Slide Deck and a Data Table.

Before we look at some of these and what they have created for Oracle Analytics Cloud, there is a small warning. Some of these can take a long time to complete, that is, if they complete. I’ve had to run some of these features multiple times to get them to create. I’ve run all of the features, and the output from these can be seen on the right-hand side of the above image.

It created a 15-slide presentation on Oracle Analytics Cloud and its various features, and a five minute video on migrating OAC.

It also created a Mind-map, and an Infographic.

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