fsdesign 0.1.4

Python package for Factorial Survey Design

Factorial Survey Design

Python package for Factorial Survey Design

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://fsdesign.readthedocs.io.

Features

• Vignettes factorial design generation

Installation

Using pip:

$ pip install fsdesign

Usage

As a command line tool

$ fsdesign [OPTIONS]

Options:

-t, --template PATH  Path to template text file for vignettes
-f, --factors PATH   Path to factors csv file
-s, --size INTEGER   Number of resulting vignettes
-o, --output PATH    Output file path
-d, --duplicates     Flag for duplicated vignettes
--help               Show usage and options information.

Example:

$ fsdesign -t my_template.txt -f my_factors.csv -s 370 -o vignettes.csv -d

Template file example:

Peter is a {job_title}.

During the last year he has been using {drug_type} {frequency}.

Factors csv example:

job_title	drug_type	frequency
college professor	alcohol	occasionally
police officer	tobacco	often
student	cocaine	daily
salesman	marijuana
nightclub waiter	amphetamines

The output is a csv file containing:

• Incremental unique ID
• Vignette text
• Assigned values for the factors within the vignette

Example:

ID	Text	job_title	drug_type	frequency
1	Peter is a student […]	student	alcohol	daily
2	Peter is a salesman […]	salesman	tobacco	often
3	Peter is a student […]	student	marijuana	occasionally

Important: It is recommended to use Google Spreadsheets for creating the factors csv (File->Export as CSV) as well as for importing the output csv to avoid problems with character encodings that other software applications might cause.

History

0.1.0 (2018-02-15)

• First release on PyPI.