easylink 0.1.1

Research repository for the EasyLink ER ecosystem project.

EasyLink is a framework that allows users to build and run highly configurable entity resolution (ER) pipelines.

Installation

There are a few things to install in order to use this package:

• Install singularity. If this is not already installed on your system, you will likely need to request it from your system admin. Refer to https://docs.sylabs.io/guides/4.1/admin-guide/installation.html

• Install graphviz via

  > conda install graphviz

• Install EasyLink via

  > pip install easylink

  OR

  > cd <path/to/repositories/>

  > git clone [e-mail]:ihmeuw/easylink.git

  > # OR git clone https://github.com/ihmeuw/easylink.git

  > cd easylink

  > pip install .

Quickstart

To run a pipeline, use easylink run from the command line and pass in the paths to both a pipeline specification and an input data specification:

> easylink run -p <PIPELINE-SPECIFICATION> -i <INPUT-DATA-SPECIFICATION>

There are several other optional arguments to easylink run as well; for help, use easylink run –help

Note that a schematic of the pipeline’s directed acyclic graph (DAG) that is run is automatically generated. If this schematic is desired _without_ actually running the pipeline, use easylink generate-dag:

> easylink generate-dag -p <PIPELINE-SPECIFICATION> -i <INPUT-DATA-SPECIFICATION>

As before, refer to easylink generate-dag –help for information on other options.

Requirements

TBD

Documentation

TBD