bn-modeller 1.0.0

A program to represents a set of variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph.

BN Modeller

An open-source application designed to facilitate feature dependency modeling and evaluation using Bayesian Networks.

User Guide

You can obtain user guides for BN Modeller application with the following link https://digiratory.github.io/bayes_model/. It covers various aspects of using BN Modeller, including data analysis workflows, best practices, and more.

Instalation

From sources

You can install this project from sources by cloning this repository and installing it using pip:

git clone https://github.com/Digiratory/bayes_model.git && cd bayes_model
pip install .

Using PyPI

You can install this project using pip:

pip install bn_modeller

Using executable file (windows only)

You can download the latest Windows executable from the BN Modeller GitHub Releases page.

Graphviz

A Graphviz error could arise. To solve the problem install and add the Graphviz executables on your systems' PATH as follows:

Windows

1. Install windows package from: https://graphviz.org/download/ (Linux and Mac instructions can be found here as well)
2. Install python graphviz package
3. Press the Windows key
4. Type in the search box: edit environment variables for your account
5. Select Path
6. Click Edit… button
7. Click New
8. Add 'bin' folder to User path in environment variables manager (e.g: C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.38\bin)
9. Add location dot.exe to System Path (e.g: C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.38\bin\dot.exe)
10. Click OK and OK again

Once have done that, restart your python IDE (if it is open). If this was running in a CMD prompt (e.g. Anaconda Command prompt), restart this prompt as well to make sure the prompt finds the new environment variables.

https://pygraphviz.github.io/documentation/stable/install.html

Linux

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install graphviz graphviz-dev

Launch Application

To launch the application installed with pip, run:

bn_modeller

If you have downloaded BN Modeller using the Windows executable, simply double-click the bn_modeller.exe file located in the directory.

Build

Build Executable file for Windows

1. Install pyinstaller
2. Execute the following command:

pyinstaller bn_modeller.exe.spec

Troubleshooting

High storage utilization on Windows 10/11

This high storage utilization probably caused by WindowsSearch Engine. To mitigate the problem you should disable the indexing of content for .sqlite files as following.

1. Press Win to open Start Menu and type in Index.
2. Click on Indexing Options.
3. On this next screen, hit Advanced > (Tab) File Types. For extention .sqlite select "Index Properties Only".