experimental-design

Notes on experiment design, statistics, empirical model-building, factorial and composite designs, response surfaces, Monte Carlo, and linear models.

On the Web: https://charlesreid1.github.io/experiment-design-notes

On Github: https://github.com/charlesreid1/experiment-design-notes

HTML Pages and Notebooks

The main output of the repository consists of HTML pages and Jupyter notebooks containing lecture notes and example problems on various experimental design topics.

To generate these, use Pelican (see next section).

Pelican Source Code

The source code for creating the HTMl and Jupyter notebooks is organized as follows:

• Pelican is the Python module used to turn raw content into web content

  • pelicanconf.py is the main Pelican "Makefile"
  • content/ directory will contain any pelican content

• Raw content in content/ is turned into static web content in docs

  • Use pelican content command

• Jupyter notebooks are converted to HTML and added to docs

  • Jupyter nbconvert commands should be called by pelicanconf.py

• Static content in docs is hosted on Github Pages

  • See link at top

Configuration file:

The Pelican configuration file is pelicanconf.py.

Raw Content:

Pelican turns raw content (markdown, HTML-like Jinja templates) into static HTML content.

The default location for Pelican content is content/. This is where it looks for markdown files to turn into static content. You can add more locations by adding to the list EXTRA_TEMPLATE_PATHS in pelicanconf.py.

Markdown files in content/ will be rendered as blog posts. This is problematic if there is no support for blog stuff, as with the theme we are using,

Markdown files in content/pages/ will be rendered as static HTML pages. Easy peasy.

Theme:

The basic template files are contained in the theme folder. To add your own templates to customize the theme, add more paths containing templates to the EXTRA_TEMPLATES_PATHS list in pelicanconf.py.

Also explicitly add HTML template pages like this:

TEMPLATE_PAGES['mypage.html'] = 'mypage.html'
TEMPLATE_PAGES['custompath.html'] = 'custom/path/custompath.html'

We use this to turn a custom HTML template into an index/splash page:

TEMPLATE_PAGES['splash.html'] = 'index.html'

Splash/Landing Page:

The splash/landing page is a Jinja template at content/splash.html. It is converted into the destination file index.html as per pelicanconf.py. To modify the template, just edit splash.html. To use a different template as the splash page, just modify pelicanconf.py.