MUSE-Dashboard

A GUI for the MUSE model

Install inside a virtual environment with:

python -m pip install -r requirements.in

Run with:

python run.py

The app will be available at http://localhost:8080

Current Limitations and Improvements required for productionising:

• The simulation is slow to run, so there is significant time delay between running the model and the results appearing. This could be improved by caching results.

• Some of the examples models included do not fix with the technologies and limits on their values specified in settings/config.py

• Only the last row in Technodata.csv for each Sector is currently editable. Another loop comprehension and potentially a tab component will be required for more.

• Model is a global variable. This will need to be refactored if made into a production server. See here

• The dashboard itself does not have any tests. Only the interface with the model does. They can be run by running pytest in an activated virtual environment. There are no automated tests on GiHub.

• For a one-click executable, look into pyinstaller. Note that the app.run_server function in run.py is an endless loop, so this needs to be navigated for any executable to also launch a web browser.

Funding

This research received funding from the FCDO Climate Compatible Growth Project.