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Visualize your SQL Agent queries with OpenAI and Quickchart.io.json
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"content": "## Generate a Quickchart definition \n[Original template](https://n8n.io/workflows/2400-ai-agent-with-charts-capabilities-using-openai-structured-output-and-quickchart/)\n\n**HTTP Request node**\n- Send the chart query to OpenAI, with a defined JSON response format - *using HTTP Request node as it has not yet been implemented in the OpenAI nodes*\n- The JSON structure is based on ChartJS and Quickchart.io definitions, that let us create nice looking graphs.\n- The output is a JSON containing the chart definition that is passed to the next node.\n\n**Set Response node**\n- Adds the chart definition at the end of a Quickchart.io URL ([see documentation](https://quickchart.io/documentation/usage/parameters/))\n- Note that in the parameters, we specify the width to 250 in order to be properly displayed in the chart interface."
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"content": "### Information Extractor \n- This Information Extractor is added to extract the user's question\n- In some cases, if the question contains a visualization aspect, the SQL Agent may not responding accurately.\n\n### SQL Agent\n- This SQL Agent is connected to a Database.\n- It queries the Database for each user message.\n- In this example, the prompt has been slightly changed to address an issue with querying a Supabase DB. Feel free to change the `Prefix Prompt` to suit your needs.\n- This example uses the data from this [Kaggle dataset](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ihelon/coffee-sales/versions/15?resource=download)"
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