Custom High-Throughput Virtual Experiments with Thorat Tutorial

Custom High-Throughput Virtual Experiments with Thorat is a tutorial and starter pack for building custom dynamic websites for computational social science experiments.

Getting Started

You'll need to be able to access Python in your terminal and an interactive development environment (IDE) to get started. If you haven't used an IDE before, check out Visual Studio Code

Clone the Github repo

Clone or download the Github repo

git clone git@github.com:mattgroh/ic2s2-tutorial-thorat.git
cd ic2s2-tutorial-thorat

Set up your virtual environment

Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Launch the server

python run.py

Now, go to localhost:5005 on your browser

1. We'll need to uncomment Step 1 to get to "hello world"

2. Now, let's start building this website. Uncomment Step 2 and start exploring.

3. Can you build your own About page?

4. Let's build in a survey and a backend to collect the data. We need to uncomment code again.

5. Let's see what that data looks like by pulling up a Jupyter notebook

6. Now, let's see what a full working app might look like

7. Congratulations! You built an interactive experiment!