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Overview

vcweb is a Django framework for developing group experiments, with a design bias towards collective action experiments (public goods, common pool resources). It provides data models and abstractions for configuring, collecting and managing experiment data and real-time server push via sockjs.

Current efforts

Areas of active development include:

• storing and managing graph data representing social network relationships that can affect information flow
• improving the data value API (participant and group data, experiment and round parameterizations) and web API via Django Rest Framework integration
• investigate django channels as a replacement for sockjs-tornado and redis
• Dockerized deployment

Running experiments

Please visit our Features page for a detailed listing and screenshots of vcweb features.

If you would like experimenter access to run trial experiments, please contact us.

Experiments in production

• Lighter Footprints
• Forestry
• Boundary Effects

Experiments in development

• Forestry treatment for Daniel DeCaro
• Irrigation

Technology stack

• Python 2.7 or later
• PostgreSQL
• Django 1.9
• Fabric for build management & deployment
• sockjs and sockjs-tornado and Redis for server push

See [our developer docs](Developer Documentation) for more details on local development setup.