Best ML Experiment Tracking Tools for Freelancers

TensorBoard is TensorFlow's comprehensive visualization toolkit designed to facilitate machine learning experimentation. It enables users to track and visualize metrics such as loss and accuracy, visualize the model graph (operations and layers), view histograms of weights, biases, or other tensors as they change over time, project embeddings to a lower-dimensional space, and display images, text, and audio data. Additionally, TensorBoard offers profiling capabilities to optimize TensorFlow programs. These features collectively provide a suite of tools to understand, debug, and optimize TensorFlow programs, enhancing the machine learning workflow. In machine learning, to improve something you often need to be able to measure it. TensorBoard is a tool for providing the measurements and visualizations needed during the machine learning workflow. It enables tracking experiment metrics, visualizing the model graph, and projecting embeddings to a lower dimensional space.

Data Version Control (DVC) is an open source version control system tailored for data science and machine learning projects. It offers a Git-like experience to organize data, models, and experiments, enabling users to manage and version images, audio, video, and text files in storage, and to structure their machine learning modeling process into a reproducible workflow. DVC integrates seamlessly with existing software engineering tools, allowing teams to define any aspect of their machine learning projects, data and model versions, pipelines, and experiments, in human-readable metafiles. This approach facilitates the use of best practices and established engineering toolsets, reducing the gap between data science and software engineering. By leveraging Git, DVC enables versioning and sharing of entire machine learning projects, including source code, configurations, parameters, metrics, data assets, and processes, by committing DVC metafiles as placeholders.