Bar graph

[BigBadBurrow]

It would be very useful to have a bar plot graphing type. My use case is I'm training a RL agent which can choose between 10 different actions for a given state, and I record the chosen actions and currently output to a TensorBoard histogram. But given that this data is inherently discretized, the histogram output isn't fit for purpose, and would make more sense with a bar plot.

[nfelt]

Thanks for the feature request - we realize the histogram visualization is somewhat limited; folks have previously tried to use it for non-histogram data (see #900) but as you point out it's not a good fit.

[BigBadBurrow]

Thanks Nick. I'm wondering, is this you in this presentation? https://youtu.be/PicxU81owCs?t=348

[nfelt]

As flattered as I am at the suggestion that I lecture at the Stanford School of Engineering, I have to say that no, that is not me :)

[BigBadBurrow]

Ha ha, well your profile says you live in Stanford, you're a TensorFlow developer and you look just like him (in your profile photo anyhow).

Putting that aside, thanks for your work and effort in developing TF and TB, it's a great resource. Fingers crossed for bar plots in future :-D