RamParameswaran/OpenFisca_AUSCL_demo

OpenFisca Demonstration Repo - for Australian Society for Computers and Law (AUSCL) forum series

OpenFisca_AUSCL_demo

This repo demonstrates the capabilities of OpenFisca for delivering a numerical Rules as Code Engine. It is intended as a facilitated beginner introduction to OpenFisca.

Installation (Git Clone)

We recommend that you use a virtualenv to install OpenFisca. If you don't, you may need to add --user at the end of all commands starting by pip.

python -m venv openfisca
deactivate
source openfisca/bin/activate
python -m pip install --editable . --user
make build
make install

You can make sure that everything is working by running the provided tests with make test.

Learn more about tests

🎉 This OpenFisca Country Package is now installed and ready! You can begin working on your legislation.

Next Steps

• To learn how to use OpenFisca, follow our tutorials.
• To serve this Country Package, serve the OpenFisca web API.

Depending on what you want to do with OpenFisca, you may want to install yet other packages in your virtualenv:

• To install extensions or write on top of this Country Package, head to the Extensions documentation.
• To plot simulation results, try matplotlib.
• To manage data, check out pandas.