Visualise a Kedro project in Databricks notebooks

Kedro-Viz is a tool that enables you to visualise your Kedro pipeline and metrics generated from your data science experiments. It is a standalone web application that runs on a web browser, it can be run on a local machine or in a Databricks notebook.

For Kedro-Viz to run with your Kedro project, you need to ensure that both the packages are installed in the same scope (notebook-scoped vs. cluster library). This means that if you %pip install kedro from inside your notebook then you should also %pip install kedro-viz from inside your notebook. If your cluster comes with Kedro installed on it as a library already then you should also add Kedro-Viz as a cluster library.

To run Kedro-Viz in a Databricks notebook you must first launch the Kedro IPython extension:

%load_ext kedro.ipython

And load your Kedro project from where it is stored in either the Databricks workspace or in a Repo:

%reload_kedro <project_root>/iris-databricks

Kedro-Viz can then be launched in a new browser tab with the %run_viz line magic:

%run_viz

This command presents you with a link to the Kedro-Viz web application.

Clicking this link opens a new browser tab running Kedro-Viz for your project.