Getting started using EDSL

If you're totally new to EDSL or haven't used it in a while, these quick steps will get you started running example code and exploring new features in just a few minutes.

Step 1: Install EDSL

Open your terminal and run the following command to install the EDSL package:

pip install edsl

To update an existing installation:

pip install --upgrade edsl

Step 2: Create an account

Sign up for a free account to access special features for conducting research at the Expected Parrot server.

Your account comes with $25 in credits for API calls to available models.

Step 3: Choose where to conduct your research

You can run surveys remotely at the Expected Parrot server or locally on your own machine.

Activate remote inference at your Settings page:

This allows you to:

• Run surveys at the Expected Parrot server.

• Use your Expected Parrot API key to access all available models.

• Automatically store and retrieve responses from the Universal Remote Cache.

Learn more about remote features.

Step 4: Manage API keys

You can use your own API keys for LLMs and/or an Expected Parrot API key that provides access to all available models.

Manage keys at your Keys page:

• Use your Expected Parrot API key to access all available models.

• Add your own keys from Anthropic, OpenAI and other service providers.

• Share keys with your team, track usage, set spending limits and easily switch between providers at any time.

Learn more about managing keys.

Step 5: Run the starter tutorial

Download and run the starter tutorial notebook to try example code. You can also explore demo notebooks for a variety of use cases at our documentation page and easily modify them for your purposes.

Have a use case that you don't see covered? Get in touch and we'll create one for you!