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authorziejd22018-04-25 17:12:17 -0500
committerGitHub2018-04-25 17:12:17 -0500
commitd3d9cb0033d895ae31d96da4dedb177e74ec17bc (patch)
treeced52472881a5840480fee6591416c765e517fbd
parentad8435459b6571a82bb1818667727d1b50017c86 (diff)
downloadBNW-d3d9cb0033d895ae31d96da4dedb177e74ec17bc.tar.gz
Update BNW_data_flow.txt
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/BNW_data_flow.txt b/BNW_data_flow.txt
index 494e4644..09b94ced 100644
--- a/BNW_data_flow.txt
+++ b/BNW_data_flow.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
-This file will provide an overview of data flow within BNW.
+This file will provide an overview of data flow within BNW and describe the output files that are created for the network. These files are written to the /sourcecodes/data/ directory.
 This focuses on what happens after clicking on "Learn network model from data" on homepage (home.php).
 
-<b>Step 1: Upload data</b>
+Step 1: Upload data
 
 Clicking "Learn network model from data" on homepage (home.php) goes to: 
 bn_file_load_gom.php which is responsible for uploading the input file
    and preparing it for structure/parameter learning.
 
 Specifically, uploading a file runs the 'run_prep_input' script in /sourcecodes.
-This runs the prepareInput.m Matlab/Octave function.
+This runs the prepareInput.m MATLAB/Octave function.
 
 One additional note:
 BNW assigns each network a randomly generated 3 letter prefix when the file is uploaded.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ I will use ??? to signify this prefix.
 The following 13 files are written to /sourcecodes/data directory during this step:
 1) ???continuous_input_orig.txt: This is an exact copy of the input file uploaded by the user.
 2) ???continuous_input.txt: Input file after processing by prepareInput.m.
-   -A couple of notable changes are made to the input file.
+   -A couple of notable changes are made that differentiate input.txt from input_orig.txt.
      a) An additional header type row containing the variable/node type is added as the second row of the file.
          See ???type.txt below.
      b) Discrete variable values are recoded to be integers.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ This is a link to executionprogress.php which just displays a "progress bar" and
 To start structure learning, it runs execute_bn_gom.php.
 execute_bn_gom.php which runs the run.sh script and prepares a couple of files.
 
-The run.sh contains the commands to run the structure learning codes.
+The run.sh script contains the commands to run the structure learning codes.
 
 Output files from structure learning that are written to /sourcecodes/data:
 1) ???structure_input.txt: The structure matrix, containing the edges included in the network model.
@@ -153,7 +153,6 @@ Several files must be created to account for this. They are the same as describe
 
 
 
-Structure learning: