Mesa Charts Example

Summary

A modified version of the "bank_reserves" example made to provide examples of mesa's charting tools.

The chart types included in this example are:

• Line Charts for time-series data of multiple model parameters
• Pie Charts for model parameters
• Bar charts for both model and agent-level parameters

Installation

To install the dependencies use pip and the requirements.txt in this directory. e.g.

    $ pip install -r requirements.txt

Interactive Model Run

To run the model interactively, use mesa runserver in this directory:

    $ mesa runserver

Then open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8521/, select the model parameters, press Reset, then Start.

Files

• bank_reserves/random_walker.py: This defines a class that inherits from the Mesa Agent class. The main purpose is to provide a method for agents to move randomly one cell at a time.
• bank_reserves/agents.py: Defines the People and Bank classes.
• bank_reserves/model.py: Defines the Bank Reserves model and the DataCollector functions.
• bank_reserves/server.py: Sets up the interactive visualization server.
• run.py: Launches a model visualization server.

Further Reading

See the "bank_reserves" model for more information.