Tutorial/Course: Advanced 'Spaghetti Plots' for ML Experiment Visualization
Based on the user comment, "I like it! Would love to see that as a package," in response to the novel 'Spaghetti Plot' for visualizing ML experiments, there's a clear demand. While a software package is a direct interpretation, this enthusiasm also signals a significant opportunity for an information resource that helps users understand, create, and utilize this advanced visualization technique.
Specific Feasible Product Suggestion: An online course and/or a comprehensive e-book titled: "Mastering Spaghetti Plots: Advanced Visualization for In-Depth ML Experiment Analysis."
Content Focus: The resource would be designed to provide:
- Theoretical Foundations: A clear explanation of the 'Spaghetti Plot' concept, its advantages over traditional methods (like standard parallel coordinate plots), and the problems it solves in visualizing complex, high-dimensional experimental data (e.g., full factorial experiments).
- Practical Implementation: Step-by-step guidance on creating Spaghetti Plots. This would include code examples (e.g., using Python with libraries like Matplotlib, Seaborn, or Plotly, along with custom logic for score-based coloring and line offsetting) and advice on preparing data from common ML experiment tracking outputs.
- Interpretive Skills: Detailed strategies and examples on how to read and interpret Spaghetti Plots to identify optimal hyperparameter configurations, understand parameter sensitivity, detect interactions, and derive actionable insights for model improvement.
- Case Studies & Use Cases: Real-world examples demonstrating the application of Spaghetti Plots across different types of ML problems and experimental setups.
Target Audience:
- Machine Learning Researchers
- Data Scientists
- ML Engineers
- Academics and students focused on applied machine learning and data analysis.
Expected Benefits: This information resource would provide significant value by:
- Empowering Users: Equipping practitioners with a novel and powerful tool to decode complex experimental results, which are often opaque with standard visualization methods.
- Enhancing Insight Generation: Enabling users to uncover deeper insights into hyperparameter interactions, model behavior, and the overall performance landscape of their experiments.
- Improving Efficiency in Model Development: Allowing for quicker identification of optimal or near-optimal model configurations, thereby streamlining the iterative tuning process and potentially reducing computational costs.
- Facilitating Clearer Communication: Providing an effective visual method to communicate complex findings from ML experiments to peers, stakeholders, or in publications.
- Driving Better Model Performance: Ultimately, by providing better tools for understanding and optimization, this resource can contribute to the development of more robust and higher-performing machine learning models.
Origin Reddit Post
r/dataisbeautiful
The Spagetti Plot [OC]: An enhanced parallel coordinates plot for visualizing the performance of a full factorial experiment.
Posted by u/The--__--Dude•05/28/2025
A line is plotted for each possible configuration (3x3x3x3x2=162) Lines are colored and offset based on score.
I use it to identify the best pipeline configuration in a ML experiment, based
Top Comments
u/Aggravating-Score146
A beepa de boopi / whahat the fuckey?
u/dr-tectonic
It's pretty, but I think most of the detail isn't conveying much.
Usually, the spaghetti plot only has one meaning for the y-axis, and the value is in seeing how the individual traces vary r
u/shadowderp
Very nice. It would be also nice to be able to highlight a subset of lines (for example, color change the lines that pass through a subset of nodes) interactively to be able to visually pop o
u/dr-tectonic
Ah! Okay, if this is more of an *infographic* than an explanatory plot, then I think this could work really well. If the message you're trying to convey is "this a messy problem, look how w
u/dr-tectonic
It's pretty, but I think most of the detail isn't conveying much.
Usually, the spaghetti plot only has one meaning for the y-axis, and the value is in seeing how the individual traces vary r
u/dr-tectonic
It's pretty, but I think most of the detail isn't conveying much.
Usually, the spaghetti plot only has one meaning for the y-axis, and the value is in seeing how the individual traces vary r
u/tetryds
I like it! Would love to see that as a package
u/The--__--Dude
Thank you, I really appreciate your comprehensive feedback. Although Im not sure if I get your Idea with the bean plots right. Do you mean an overlay on top of the parallel coordinate plots o
u/tetryds
I like it! Would love to see that as a package
u/dr-tectonic
Now, if you wanted to do an explanatory plot that made it clear which configuration parameters matter the most, then yeah, I think the beanplot/boxplot approach works best.
Your examples are
u/saschaleib
Finally a diagram that shows how to squeeze spaghetti into a much too small pot without breaking them. Good work!
u/Aggravating-Score146
A beepa de boopi / whahat the fuckey?
u/AdRoutine8022
Finally, a spaghetti mess I actually wanna stare at for hours.
u/Aggravating-Score146
A beepa de boopi / whahat the fuckey?
u/dr-tectonic
Ah! Okay, if this is more of an *infographic* than an explanatory plot, then I think this could work really well. If the message you're trying to convey is "this a messy problem, look how w
u/tetryds
I like it! Would love to see that as a package
u/AdRoutine8022
Finally, a spaghetti mess I actually wanna stare at for hours.
u/saschaleib
Finally a diagram that shows how to squeeze spaghetti into a much too small pot without breaking them. Good work!
u/shadowderp
Very nice. It would be also nice to be able to highlight a subset of lines (for example, color change the lines that pass through a subset of nodes) interactively to be able to visually pop o
u/dr-tectonic
It's pretty, but I think most of the detail isn't conveying much.
Usually, the spaghetti plot only has one meaning for the y-axis, and the value is in seeing how the individual traces vary r
u/tetryds
I like it! Would love to see that as a package
u/saschaleib
Finally a diagram that shows how to squeeze spaghetti into a much too small pot without breaking them. Good work!
u/saschaleib
Finally a diagram that shows how to squeeze spaghetti into a much too small pot without breaking them. Good work!
u/AdRoutine8022
Finally, a spaghetti mess I actually wanna stare at for hours.
u/AdRoutine8022
Finally, a spaghetti mess I actually wanna stare at for hours.
u/shadowderp
Very nice. It would be also nice to be able to highlight a subset of lines (for example, color change the lines that pass through a subset of nodes) interactively to be able to visually pop o
u/shadowderp
Very nice. It would be also nice to be able to highlight a subset of lines (for example, color change the lines that pass through a subset of nodes) interactively to be able to visually pop o
u/dr-tectonic
Now, if you wanted to do an explanatory plot that made it clear which configuration parameters matter the most, then yeah, I think the beanplot/boxplot approach works best.
Your examples are
u/The--__--Dude
Thank you, I really appreciate your comprehensive feedback. Although Im not sure if I get your Idea with the bean plots right. Do you mean an overlay on top of the parallel coordinate plots o
u/AdRoutine8022
Finally, a spaghetti mess I actually wanna stare at for hours.
u/The--__--Dude
Thank you, I really appreciate your comprehensive feedback. Although Im not sure if I get your Idea with the bean plots right. Do you mean an overlay on top of the parallel coordinate plots o
u/tetryds
I like it! Would love to see that as a package
u/saschaleib
Finally a diagram that shows how to squeeze spaghetti into a much too small pot without breaking them. Good work!