Taking a Crack at UrbanSim in Javascript
One of my biggest beefs about doing urban modeling in Python and Pandas is when the specific modeling task doesn't map well to a vectorized operation. Since Python performance degrades significantly over simple for loops - see this for more info - a simple code section inside of a loop that ...
Pandana
Pandana was created as part of my dissertation which is work done with Paul Waddell as advisor. Most of the polish of the library was done by Matt Davis (@jiffyclub) for work done at Synthicity.
Pandana is a neoligism for Pandas Network Analysis, which follows somewhat the kinds of functionality ...
UrbanSim, etc
The next few blog posts are going to be about projects from the past couple of years. Yes, I'm way behind in documenting a few very important projects, but better late than never.
UrbanSim the Repo
For starters, let's discuss the new version of UrbanSim. The first commit ...