Google Open Sources Data Visualization Tool for Machine Learning

Google has open sourced its Embedding Projector, a web application that gives developers a way to visualize data that's being used to train their machine learning systems. Embedding Projector is part of TensorFlow, the machine learning technology behind some popular Google services like image search, Smart Reply in Inbox and Google Translate. The company released TensorFlow to the open source community last year in order to spur more development activity in the field. In a technical paper, Google researchers described the Embedding Projector as an interactive visualization tool that developers can use to interpret machine-learning models that rely on what are known as "embeddings." "With the widespread adoption of ML systems, it is increasingly important for research scientists to be able to explore how the data is being interpreted by the models," Google engineer Daniel Smilkov said in Google's open source blog.