New VenPy fork (Vensim + Python)

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tomfid
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New VenPy fork (Vensim + Python)

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VenPy is a Python wrapper for the Vensim dll, created by Patrick Breach. We've recently forked and updated the project at https://github.com/VensimOfficial/venpy. The new version supports sensitivity analysis and is a little more forgiving of variable naming, since Vensim is case insensitive.

VenPy takes a model, parameters, and basically anything you can issue as a dll command and returns Pandas dataframes of simulation output. Dataframes are super convenient because you can perform all kinds of analysis, plotting, aggregation, etc. with just a couple lines of code.

Probably of greatest interest is a new sample model+code that demonstrates how to automate a suite of experiments. We used this code to automate the creation of consequence tables for Structured Decision Making (https://www.structureddecisionmaking.or ... equences2/) about Chronic Wasting Disease (https://metasd.com/2022/02/modeling-chr ... g-disease/).

The code specifies a series of runs, with or without uncertainty, and generates heatmapped tables comparing metrics of interest across scenarios:
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It also demonstrates use of seaborn (https://seaborn.pydata.org/) to visualize uncertainty in the outcomes:
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