Project Meeting 2016.12.16 - ActivitySim/activitysim GitHub Wiki

#Task 1 Project Management

@Elizabeth - discussed review and draft memo
- She identified a number of areas of improvement:
  - a unified approach to data access, data I/O functions, the ability to restart model runs, output data, etc
  - simplified abstraction levels for different users - core developers, modelers with good programming skills, users
  - improved example and documentation
  - catching errors early and often, explicit error catching, improved error legibility, and a debug mode
- There was much discussion about orca, both good and bad, especially legibility versus flexibility
- We also discussed improvements to the data model / data access capabilities and the need for a clear set of wrapper functions around pandas, numpy, and orca for data I/O and data pipelining
- @Everyone - comments due by end of year so @Elizabeth - can finalize the memo shortly after
Next year's contract is still waiting on signatures from PSRC and SFCTA
- Will hopefully be signed soon
- @Ben to draft Phase 3 scope of work on wiki for discussion at TRB
  - Topics for the scope of work include:
    - logsums
    - intermediate stops
    - shadow pricing
    - threading
    - data access / pipelining
    - continued finishing up of phase 1 models
SANDAG's supplemental contract has been reviewed by contracts and should be executed in early/mid January
Contract ends Dec 31st 2016, so @Bill will extend a month or two so we can make sure to use up the hours we have
@Bill to setup a meeting at TRB to go over the scope of work; the 8pm Sunday meetup will remain on the calendar too

#Task 10 Full Model Run

Updated code due to update in OMX library #131
@Ben and Jeff to spend the remaining contract hours on drafting next year's scope and documentation and usability improvements suggested by Elizabeth