[bip] Announcing PEBL (and asking for assistance)

[Abhik Shah]

Hi Titus,
    Fine, so you want a tutorial that actually teaches rather than
something quick that lets me claim I have a tutorial?!?

I've created a bug report
(http://code.google.com/p/pebl-project/issues/detail?id=16) for this
and I've updated the tutorial using an example from a real dataset
(Spellman cell cycle) and better explanation about the process and
results.

Updated docs at: http://ano.malo.us/pebl/docs/
Updated tutorial:  http://ano.malo.us/pebl/docs/tutorial.html

The explanation for the results is still weak but a screencast might
be a better solution.

Thanks,
Abhik.


On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:19 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 05:34:41PM -0400, Abhik Shah wrote:
> -> Hi,
> ->   I've been working on pebl (Python Environment for Bayesian Learning)
> -> for the past couple of years.  It's a python library for structure
> -> learning of Bayesian networks from data and prior knowledge.  I've
> -> implemented all features for a 1.0 release and have finalized the API.
> ->  It has many unique features not found in any other package (python or
> -> not), including:
> ->
> -> * ability to handle interventional data
> -> * exact and heuristic methods for handling missing values and hidden variables
> -> * nice AJAX-y html reports
> -> * almost-transparent parallel processing on multiple platforms (XGrid,
> -> IPython1 and Amazon EC2)
> ->     * this is useful when dealing with many hidden variable
> ->
> -> Pebl includes sphinx-generated documentation and 200+ unittests.  I
> -> think it's ready for prime time but would appreciate an informal code
> -> review (or just comments) from this group.  Installation is currently
> -> a bit painful but I'm working on improving that. Same goes for the
> -> quality of the documentation.
>
> Hi, Abhik,
>
> the tutorial is cute, but completely uninformative!  What format is the
> data in, for example? What does the analysis actually do??  What is the
> output?  Can it solve real problems (and what would be an example of
> one, and wouldn't that be a great tutorial instead?)
>
> However, to find out the answer to these questions I would be happy to
> have you come give a presentation at MSU, if you're interested.  E-mail
> me off-list if so.
>
> cheers,
> --titus
> --
> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
>



-- 
Abhik Shah - http://umich.edu/~shahad
Systems Biology Lab, University of Michigan