Explore, label, and monitor data for AI projects
Rubrix is a free and open-source tool for exploring and iterating on data for artificial intelligence projects.
Rubrix focuses on enabling novel, human in the loop workflows involving data scientists, subject matter experts and ML/data engineers.
With Rubrix, you can:
- Monitor the predictions of deployed models.
- Label data for starting up or evolving an existing project.
- Iterate on ground-truth and predictions to debug, track and improve your data and models over time.
- Build custom applications and dashboards on top of your model predictions.
We've tried to make working with Rubrix easy and fun, while keeping it scalable and flexible.
Rubrix is composed of:
- a Python library to bridge data and models, which you can install via
pip
. - a web application to explore and label data, which you can launch using Docker or directly with Python.
This is an example of Rubrix UI annotation mode:
Get started
To get started you need to follow three steps:
- Install the Python client
- Launch the web app
- Start logging data
1. Install the Python client
You can install the Python client with pip
:
pip install rubrix
2. Launch the webapp
There are two ways to launch the webapp:
- Using docker-compose (recommended).
- Executing the server code manually
Using docker-compose (recommended)
Create a folder:
mkdir rubrix && cd rubrix
and launch the docker-contained web app with the following command:
wget -O docker-compose.yml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/recognai/rubrix/master/docker-compose.yaml && docker-compose up
This is the recommended way because it automatically includes an Elasticsearch instance, Rubrix's main persistent layer.
Executing the server code manually
When executing the server code manually you need to provide an Elasticsearch instance yourself.
- First you need to install Elasticsearch (we recommend version 7.10) and launch an Elasticsearch instance. For MacOS and Windows there are Homebrew formulae and a msi package, respectively.
- Install the Rubrix Python library together with its server dependencies:
pip install rubrix[server]
- Launch a local instance of the Rubrix web app
python -m rubrix.server
By default, the Rubrix server will look for your Elasticsearch endpoint at http://localhost:9200
. If you want to customize this, you can set the ELASTICSEARCH
environment variable pointing to your endpoint.
3. Start logging data
The following code will log one record into the example-dataset
dataset:
import rubrix as rb
rb.log(
rb.TextClassificationRecord(inputs="my first rubrix example"),
name='example-dataset'
)
BulkResponse(dataset='example-dataset', processed=1, failed=0)
If you go to your Rubrix app at http://localhost:6900/, you should see your first dataset.
Congratulations! You are ready to start working with Rubrix with your own data.
To better understand what's possible take a look at Rubrix's Cookbook
Community
As a new open-source project, we are eager to hear your thoughts, fix bugs, and help you get started. Feel free to use the Discussion forum or the Issues and we'll be pleased to help out.