dashboard

Dashboard provides utilities to make and visualize experiment logs. Yes, now you can run your experiments on your server and view your logs on your phone like you've always wanted.

Reporting

from dashboard import reporter
import numpy as np

r = reporter.Reporter()

for epoch in range(10):
    for i in range(5):
        metrics = {'loss': np.random.uniform(0, 1), 'f1': np.random.uniform(0, 1)}
        r.add(metrics)
    print(r.summary())  # prints {'loss': <average loss>, 'f1': <average f1>}
    r.clear()

Writers

from dashboard import writer
from time import sleep
import numpy as np
import random
random.seed()

console_writer = writer.ConsoleWriter()
file_writer = writer.FileWriter('foo.log')   # writes to 'foo.log'
for epoch in range(3):
    for i in range(2):
        metrics = {'f1': np.random.uniform(0, 1), 'iteration': i, 'epoch': epoch}
        console_writer.add(metrics)
        file_writer.add(metrics)
        sleep(0.5)

exp1_hyperparams = {'d_hid': 100, 'dropout': 0.5, 'model': 'foo'}
exp2_hyperparams = {'d_hid': 200, 'dropout': 0.3, 'model': 'bar', 'comment': 'hello world!'}
writer1 = writer.FirebaseWriter('myexp1', exp1_hyperparams, delete_existing=True)
writer2 = writer.FirebaseWriter('myexp2', exp2_hyperparams, delete_existing=True)
for i in range(5):
    writer1.add({'iteration': i, 'score': random.uniform(0, 10)})
    writer2.add({'iteration': i, 'score': random.uniform(0, 10)})
    print('wrote to firebase data from iteration {}'.format(i))

Note that in order for FirebaseWriter to work, you need to create a config file ~/.fb.config like follows:

{
  "email": "email for a user in your Firebase",
  "password": "password for the user in your Firebase",
  "secret": "some secret (you can put whatever you want)",
  "apiKey": "Firebase API key",
  "authDomain": "Firebase auth domain",
  "databaseURL": "Firebase database URL",
  "storageBucket": "Firebase storage bucket"
}

All of these come with your Firebase config, with the exception of email and password which correspond to a user that you create inside your Firebase (who has access to the database).

Firebase Web Client

An example client operating off of my personal Firebase can be found in the client directory.

NOTE: You will not be able to read/write to the database with this client until you have done the following:

1. Create an app on Firebase and locate your config according to this guide.
2. Enable email accounts and create an account/password for FirebaseWriter according to this guide. Note that you don't need to do this via Javascript, instead, just go to your users tab in Firebase and create an account.
3. Create ~/.fb.config, copying in your Firebase config from Step 1 and the account credentials from Step 2.
4. Copy in your Firebase config from Step 1 into main.js.

Once you have done so, you can launch the web server in one of the following ways.

Hosting static webpages

You can host the web pages on your machine by launching a simple http server.

# this is assuming you are using python 3
cd client/public && python -m http.server 9090

You should now be able to visit localhost:9090.

Hosting on Firebase

Follow these instructions to set up Firebase tools. Remember that you will need to change client/.firebaserc to point to your own app.

Next, the following command will deploy your app and print out the hosted URL.

cd client && firebase deploy

Static webpage

You can actually use a static web page! Just open client/public/index.html.

Contribution

Pull requests are welcome!

The project is set up as follows:

• dashboard contains the Dashboard python package, whose installation script is setup.py.
• tests contains the unit tests for the python package, runnable via python setup.py test.
• client contains the Firebase app.
• client/public contains source code for the client, mostly written in very basic VueJS.