activity-browser 3.0.0b202605072131

A graphical user interface for brightway2

Activity Browser

[!TIP] Activity Browser now has an open beta for Version 3🚀.

The beta supports many new features such as Multi-functionality and uses Brightway 2.5 under the hood. Help us by making Activity Browser even better by using and providing feedback on Activity Browser.

Learn more about the beta here.

The Activity Browser (AB) is an open source software for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that builds on Brightway2.

Some highlights

• Fast LCA calculations: for multiple reference flows, impact categories, and scenarios
• A productivity tool for brightway: model in brightway (python) and see the results in the AB or vice-versa
• Advanced modeling: Use parameters, scenarios (including prospective LCI databases from premise), uncertainties and our Graph Explorer
• Advanced analyses: Contribution analyses, Sankey Diagrams, Monte Carlo, and Global Sensitivity Analysis
• Plugins: Extend the functionality of Activity Browser with Plugins

Contents

• Installation
• First Steps
• Contributing
• Developers
• Copyright
• License

Installation

Step-by-step guide

See our Installation Guide wiki page for a step-by-step guide to installing Activity Browser.

The quick way

Or you can install and start the activity-browser like this:

conda create -n ab -c conda-forge activity-browser
conda activate ab
activity-browser

First Steps

See our Getting Started wiki page to learn how to get started using Activity Browser.

Contributing

The Activity Browser is a community project. Your contribution counts!

If you have ideas for improvements to the code or documentation or want to propose new features, please take a look at our contributing guidelines and open issues and/or pull-requests.

If you experience problems or are suffering from a specific bug, please raise an issue here on github.

Developers

Current main developers

• Bernhard Steubing ([e-mail]) (creator)
• Marin Visscher ([e-mail]) (main developer)
• Marc van der Meide ([e-mail]) (maintainer)

Important contributors

• Adrian Haas
• Chris Mutel
• Daniel de Koning
• Jonathan Kidner
• Remy le Calloch

Copyright

• 2016-2023: Bernhard Steubing (Leiden University)

License

You can find the license information for Activity Browser in the license file.