Google Colab mount Google Drive and connect with Weights and Biases to track model training progress(cool TensorBoard alternative)

I use Google Colab since it provides a free GPU, and it’s pretty easy to connect to your google drive. It feels like having another computer. But my TensorBoard code didn’t work when I opened a Jupyter notebook. This is because TensorBoard runs locally, and my Colab “computer” hasn’t set it up yet. Then I found a great alternative toolkit, Weights and Biases. I love the name, and it is so easy to use; here are some notes on how to use it.

Mount Google Drive

It is easy, just authorize it as below

from google.colab import drive
# Prompt for authorization.
drive.mount('/content/drive')
# Check your drive
!ls "/content/drive/My Drive"

You can check the file route on the left

Save your folder path for convenience