tensorflow / tensorflow/tensorboard
Feature request: alt_text on tf.summary name
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Description
Most people rely on the log_dir name to identify an experiment, but this can get out of hand pretty quickly.
It would be amazing if there was an easily reachable section in TensorBoard where I could see more details for a particular run (some people use "Text" summaries, but these are not easily visible from any tab).
A simple way would be to use an alt_text (the text box that appears when the mouse is stationary over an item).
This is how the TensorBoard API could be adapted to support this:
logdir='n_samples_1/20170530_141605'
description='more details on experiment can be provided here, and visualized like this via an html "alt_text"'
writer = tf.contrib.summary.create_file_writer(log_dir, description=description)
This is what it would look like:

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Research direction
Start by tracing the TensorBoard API behind tf.contrib.summary.create_file_writer and the UI that displays details for a run. Determine how a description could flow from the writer to an easily reachable run view and appear as hover text; done means the description is accepted, stored, and visible for the selected experiment.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100