python-experimentator

Do you write code to run experiments? If so, you've probably had the
experience of sitting down to code an experiment but getting
side-tracked by all the logistics: crossing your independent
variables to form conditions, repeating your conditions,
randomization, storing intermediate data, etc. It's frustrating to
put all that effort in before even getting to what's really unique
about your experiment. Worse, it encourages bad coding practices
like copy-pasting boilerplate from someone else's experiment code
without understanding it.
The purpose of experimentator is to handle all the boring logistics
of running experiments and allow you to get straight to what really
interests you, whatever that may be. This package was originally
intended for behavioral experiments in which human participants are
interacting with a graphical interface, but there is nothing
domain-specific about it--it should be useful for anyone running
experiments with a computer. You might say that experimentator*is a
library for 'repeatedly calling a function while systematically
varying its inputs and saving the data' (although that doesn't do it
full justice).

          

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License: MIT
URL: https://github.com/hsharrison/experimentator