cvanelteren/boiler_room

Modeling criminal organizations as a composition of gasses

Welcome to the boiler room

Source code for the paper by Casper van Elteren, Vitor Vasconcelos, Mike Lees and Peter Sloot (2023).

Installation instructions

The source is written in Nim, which writes like python but is a compiled language. To interface with the code, we need to install it. It is recommended to install Nim through choosenim, as that piece of software allows for version control. The current version is developed using Nim 2.0 but it should be compatible with 1.6.X. Make sure Nim is added to your PATH variable.

From the terminal, run

choosenim stable
git clone [email protected]:cvanelteren/boiler_room.git
cd boiler_room
nimble install

This should make boiler_room available as a package. Please explore the examples directory for some setup. Also note that this is scientific code development. I attempt to keep things tidy by having unittests available. Things change all the time, and sometimes things break.

Python bridge

It is possible to import nim packages into python, using nimporter. The current run scripts are written in Nim. If preferred, this patch can be taken.

boiler_room's Issues

Good way to dump data

I need a good way to dump things to a database.
I am currently dumping things to a json and then importing everything into a dataframe

Some interesting options would be

• polars
• h5