SciCom 0.0.2

Simulating various aspects of scientific communication via Agent-based models.

SciCom

Simulating various aspects of scientific communication via Agent-based models.

In this first version, we introduce an agent-based modelling approach to reconstruct communication in the Republic of Letters.

Documentation is available on ReadTheDocs.

Installation

tl;dr Use pip

pip install scicom

Consider using a clean virtual environment to keep your main packages separated. Create a new virtual environment and install the package

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install scicom

Testing

Tests can be run by installing the dev requirements and running tox.

pip install scicom[dev]
tox

Building documentation

The documentation is build using sphinx. Install with the dev option and run

pip install scicom[dev]
tox -e docs

Funding information

The development is part of the research project ModelSEN

Socio-epistemic networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes,

in Department I of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (Grant No. 01 UG2131).