LaTAR Processing

Python script used for processing JSON files collected by LaTAR Bot. Current features:

• Creates one CSV file per Objective per Session, named based on phone, objective, period, and repetitions
• Aligns rows for each objective such that:
  • stimulus time must be less than response time
  • current response time must be < next stimulus time
• Simple, folder-based input/output for batches processing

Note: Be careful that the same phone/objective/period/repetition combo results in an overwrite! No feature to merge CSVs yet.

Setup

The laTAR_parser.py Python script requires python3 (download from https://www.python.org/downloads/) and the Python packages listed in requirements.txt.

To install the required Python packages, either:

• Run the install.sh script with ./install.sh on Mac or Linux
• In a terminal/command prompt, run python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt. If it fails due to insufficient permissions, add --user at the end.

Usage

1. Place all .json files in the 01-JSON_data/ folder

2. Run the laTAR_parser.py script

   python3 laTAR_parser.py
   

   Some customizations that can be set in the Python script:

   • Set whether .csv files are overwritten by setting IGNORE_OVERWRITE to True (always overwrite) or False (ask before overwriting)
   • Where the input/output folders are with INPUT_JSON_DIR and OUTPUT_CSV_DIR

3. Grab results from the 02-CSV_data/ folder.