2. Environment¶

2.1. LIAM 2 bundle¶

The bundle includes:

The executable.
A text editor (Notepad++), pre-configured to work with LIAM2 models.
- Notepad++ is a free (and open source) text editor that is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/.
- We pre-configured it so that you can import csv files and run your models directly from within the editor by simply pressing F5 or F6 respectively. See below for more information.
The documentation in html, pdf and chm (windows help) format.
A demonstration model with a synthetic data set of 20,200 persons grouped in 14,700 households.

Copy the contents of the bundle in a directory on your disk (let us call it [LIAM2PATH]).
Run the “Notepad++Portable.exe” from the [LIAM2PATH]\editor directory.
Open a model (eg. [LIAM2PATH]\examples\demo01.yml)
Press F6 to run the model. A console window will open within the editor and display the status of the simulation. After the simulation completes, the console window becomes interactive.
Use this console to explore the results.

Prepare your data as CSV files. The first row should contain the name of the fields. You need at least two integer columns: “id” and “period” (though they do not necessarily need to be named like that in the csv file).
Create an import file, as described in the Importing data section. You can use [LIAM2PATH]\examples\demo_import.yml as an example.
Press F5 to convert your CSV files to hdf5.
Use the newly created data file with your model.