ipywardley

Bringing Wardley Map magic to Jupyter notebooks

Introduction

This plugin makes it easy to generate Wardley Maps using Jupyter Notebooks.

It supports a subset of the syntax defined by the Online Wardley Maps service. This simple language can be use to specify the map via the %%wardley cell magic.

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Installation

First, install Jupyter. Then before running it, install ipywardley. e.g. if you are using pip:

pip install ipywardley

Then, run Jupyter:

jupyter-lab

Usage

Open up a new Python 3 notebook, and use this command to enable the module:

%load_ext ipywardley

Now you can use the %%wardley directive and create maps. See this example notebook for a detailed example of how to do this.

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To Do

• Support more of the OWM syntax and features (?=maybe?):
  • evolution Novel->Emerging->Good->Best and evolution X offering the different sets of x-axis labels.
  • y-axis Value Chain->Invisible->Visible or y-axis none to make 'Visibility' axis optional.
  • evolve
  • annotation & annotations?
  • note?
  • market nodes?
  • pipeline nodes?
  • node inertia?
  • +<> links to indicate flow.
  • +> links to indicate flow.
  • +< links to indicate flow.
  • Hot Water+'$0.10'>Kettle flow labels?
  • build, buy, outsource node augmentation?
  • submap and related syntax?
  • pioneer, settler, townplanner areas/boxes?
• Add 'Uncharted' and 'Industrialised' labels
• Support rendering from a file, via e.g. %wardley file=example.owm style=plain
• Make it easier to download the SVG/rendered version?

Development

1. Clone this directory.
2. Set up a virtualenv and activate it.
3. Modify the code.
4. Run flit install
5. Run jupyter-lab and test your changes.
6. Repeat 3-5 ad infinitum.
7. Turn your changes into a pull request.

Making a Release

As per https://flit.pypa.io/en/stable/

1. Update version in \_\_init\_\_.py
2. Commit, tag, push.
3. flit publish

Change Log

• 0.0.7:
  • Switch from plt.grid(visibility=True, ...) to plt.grid(visible=True, ...).
• 0.0.6:
  • Added support for the bluelines +<> within Wardley Maps code.
  • Updated to support additional characters within nodes and evolve code lines
  • Default to 'wardley' style if no style provided.
  • Draw evolve lines within the map.
  • Add the red evolve nodes to the map.
• 0.0.5:
  • Updated the 'b' parameter to 'visibility' as 'b' now depreciated.