kittyplot

kittyplot provides a repl to interactively plot graphs at full resolution in the terminal using kitty's terminal graphics protocol.

Features

• Full-resolution plots in the terminal
• Works over SSH
• Works inside tmux (kind of)
• Single script to modify to suit your needs

Installation

kittyplot is structued as a single python script kp you can throw in your $PATH on any machine.

Requirements

• prompt_toolkit
  • To install, run pip install prompt_toolkit
• the kitty terminal
  • Installation instructions can be found here
• Kitty's kitten binary on the machine containing data to be plotted
  • For local installation, kitten should be installed alongside kitty
  • For remote installation, copy the kitten binary from your local kitty install to your $PATH on remote.

Usage

kittyplot is heavily inspired by tensorboard and is designed primarily to visualize data from multiple experiments. To remove the need to enter the names of runs or the paths to data, we make the following assumptions:

• We assume all experiments follow the same directory structure, and thus store their results in the same path.
• We assume the root directory of the experiment contains the name of the experiment for the plot legends
• Each metric to be tracked is a separate column in the csv, and each line of the csv contains new values for each of the metrics.

For example, if your experiments are structures as follows

experiments/
|-experiment-1/
| |- checkpoint-1.p
| |- checkpoint-2.p
| |- results.csv
|-experiment-2/
| |- checkpoint-1.p
| |- checkpoint-2.p
| |- results.csv

Then inside experiments/ you would run kp experiment-1 experiment-2.

REPL

Once your experiment data is loaded, you are presented with a repl. You can enter a regex into the repl; any columns that match the regex will be plotted, one subplot per colum with a new line per experiment.

Min, Mean, Stdev, and Max

If a column has a name like "reward_mean", kittyplot will look for columns "reward_min", "reward_max" and "reward_std". If these columns are found, kittyplot will display a view of the standard deviation and the range of values in a single plot called "reward".