Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: truthdiscovery
Version: 1.0.1
Summary: Python3 library implementing a selection of truth discoveryalgorithms
Home-page: https://github.com/joesingo/truthdiscovery
Author: Joe Singleton
Author-email: joesingo@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: # truthdiscovery
        
        `truthdiscovery` is a Python3 library that implements various truth discovery
        algorithms.
        
        A truth discovery problem consists of
        
        * a number of *sources*
        * a number of *objects*
        * for each source, a set of *claims* made by the source, with each claim
          relating to a distinct object
        
        An object may be associated with multiple (conflicting) claims from different
        sources, in which case it is not clear up front which is the true claim. It is
        typically assumed that there is only one true claim for each object.
        
        Truth discovery addresses this by using the network of sources, claims and
        objects to determine the *trustworthiness* of sources, the *belief* in each
        claim, and the true claim for each object.
        
        The general principle for most algorithms is that trustworthy sources make
        believably claims, and believable claims are made my trustworthy sources.
        
        Most approaches are *unsupervised*, in that they do not use any prior knowledge
        for the trustworthiness of sources etc.
        
        ## Installation
        
        This package should be installed with `pip` (using Python 3). It is recommended
        to work in a [virtualenv](https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/venv.html) to
        avoid conflicts with globally-installed packages:
        
        ```
        $ git clone <this repo>
        $ cd truthdiscovery
        $ python3 -m venv venv
        $ source venv/bin/activate
        $ pip install -e .
        ```
        
        ## Usage and documentation
        
        See the [full documentation on readthedocs](https://truthdiscovery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
        
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