Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

Setting up TensorBoard

In the previous chapter, we understood how Datalab can be set up. Installing TensorBoard in Datalab is as simple as specifying the following code:

Note that we need not make any separate installations for TensorBoard and it comes in prebuilt within the google.datalab.ml package.

Once the package is imported, we need to start TensorBoard by specifying the location of logs that contain the summaries written by the model fitting process.

The tb.start method works as follows:

Note that, in the first step, it checks whether ...