lokigi 0.1.0

A package for generating, ranking, analysing and visualising the best candidate solutions for discrete facility location problems

lokigi - Generate, rank, analyse and visualise the best candidate solutions for facility location problems

lokigi means 'to locate' or 'to place' in the Esperanto language.

(or it's the backronym 'Location Optimisation: K-best solution Inspection, Generation & Insights' - whichever floats your boat)

lokigi exists to make the process of providing decision support for healthcare problems with a geographical component easier.

A range of fantastic libraries exist for geographic optimization (e.g. spopt), but many use linear programming to optimize the solution, meaning you emerge with a single optimal solution. For healthcare contexts, this often isn't ideal - decision makers need a range of near-optimal solutions to balance against real-world constraints.

Building on work from Dr Tom Monks and previous rounds of the Health Service Modelling Associates programme, lokigi is designed to make it easier to beginner programmers to tackle location optimization problems for the benefit of their organisations.

Lokigi is planned to expand to boundary optimisation problems in the future.

Getting started

Head to the documentation to find out how to use the package.

For now, you would need to clone this repository to make use of it.

PyPi and Conda support coming very soon.

Contributors

Sammi Rosser 💻 📖 ⚠️ 🐛 🖋 🎨 💡 🤔 🚇 🚧 📆 🔬 ✅

Tom Monks 💻 🤔 🧑‍🏫

Dr Daniel Chalk 🧑‍🏫

Amy Heather 🚇

Note

This package builds on work from the metapy project from Dr Tom Monks.

Metapy can be found here.

Metapy is release under the MIT licence. The licence is reproduced below in line with the terms of the licence.

MIT License

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