USER GUIDE.txt

USER GUIDE 

Predictive Analysis of Emissions Growth within United States

DESCRIPTION: This application will create and run machine-learning models against emissions, economic, energy production, and energy consumption tables to predict emissions 

HOW TO RUN THIS PYTHON 3 APPLICATION 

STEP 1: Install Anaconda Python 3.7
	Link: https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/

STEP 2: Download the zip file 'Emissions_DataAnalysis.zip' locally

STEP 3: Within your terminal, navigate to the /src repository

STEP 4: Install the required python modules with the following command
	$ pip install --user --requirement REQUIREMENTS.txt

STEP 5: Install GraphViz using the following command 
	$ conda install python-graphviz
	
STEP 4: Run the program with the following command options 
	$ python3 Emissions_DataAnalysis.py local
	$ python3 Emissions_DataAnalysis.py remote

LOCAL AND REMOTE OPTIONS

local - runs the program with the local csv files provided in the repository. If the local csv files are not present, you will need to run the program remotely, to generate a local set of csvs before the analysis (aka machine-learning models) can be completed. 

remote - runs the program after first creating local, cleaned csv files from remote web sources included in the '...cleaning.py' files