DDM_Rest

This Repository is the backend for the Didactic Data Mining Tool.

Execute this project

Installing

In order to install and the execute this repo, you have to install all your dependencies:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Then you can download a ddm module dependency and execute the project

mkdir ddm
cd ddm
git clone https://github.com/riccotti/DidacticDataMining
touch __init__.py
cd ..
python3 ddmrest.py

Installing all dependencies in a virtualenv

First of all, if you haven't already installed virtualenv

pip install virtualenv

then, inside the project directory:

virtualenv -p `which python3` .
source bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python ddmrest.py

Run Docker Container

If you prefer to not install all dependencies on your machine, you can run this application in a docker container. You can build your own image using the Dockerfile or just use the prebuilt version:

docker run -p 5000:5000 alessandro308/ddm_rest

External dependencies

This project imports ddm module. Before to execute this project, remember to download these files and insert them in a module called ddm inside the root project folder.

Known Errors

If you execute this project on MacOS, you can find this error:

**RuntimeError**: Python is not installed as a framework. The Mac OS X backend will not be able to function...

In order to fix it, follow these steps (complete solution)

I assume you have installed the pip matplotlib, there is a directory in you root called ~/.matplotlib.
Create a file ~/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc there and add the following code: backend: TkAgg