# 4.5. Dashboard view (cbcdashboard)¶

To easily view the results of a simulation postprocessed with cbcpost, you can use cbcdashboard. This is a command line scripts that launch a jupyter notebook server, and opens a notebook containing a GUI to investigate the provided case directory. The case directory can either be a directory for a single simulation, or containing results from a cbcbatch-run.

To view results launch the dashboad like this:

cbcdashboard casedir


execute the first cell of the notebook, the GUI will launch and show you the available simulation results, here with denoted widget areas:

The interactive plot is an HTML-container that change based on the selected value, and can show both dolfin Functions (through X3DOM), time-dependent scalars and vectors (through matplotlib and mpld3.figure_to_html), constant scalars and, in the case of batch directories, tables of constant scalars (through pandas.DataFrame.to_html).

Showing batch results can be done by pointing cbcdashboard to a directory created with cbcbatch and containing the results of that batch simulations. This will launch a slightly different GUI, where you have the ability to select single batch parameters or set one or two batch parameter to all. When a batch parameter is set to all, it will show the fields available for comparison between the simulations, allowing for detailed inspection of parameter sensitivity:

By specifying all parametersm you can investigate the solutions directly, similar to what you can if specifying a single case directory.

Currently, you can only change the browser to open the notebook in from the command line, by passing browser=my-favourite-browser to cbcdashboard.