Benchmark

[LAAP]

Are we going to have a Benchmark like in Volpe? Which one? Barcelona, Volpe, a synthetic one based in North American cities...?

[doorleyr]

There is now a front-end issue which includes handling of multiple scenarios on the indicators plots (eg. current vs benchmark or baseline).

We need to decide how to handle this information in the module. In the Corktown project, the reference scenario will be the baseline i.e. calculations based on data for the existing site with all geogrid cells set to None. (in another project, the reference scenario could be a different district).

Maybe each indicator needs to have a function: calculate_baseline() which outputs the baseline indicator values for that district (either by reading and analyzing baseline data or by reading data produced manually etc.). Then we would pass a parameter to the Handler indicating whether the baseline values should be included with each indicator. @crisjf what do you think?

[crisjf]

That sounds good. Let's not pass the parameter though, let the Handler take care of it by checking if the user has defined the calculate_baseline function.

Given how the Handler behaves, the calculate_baseline function can return a dictionary with multiple scenarios. Something like:

def return_baseline(self):
    barcelona = 1
    paris = 2
    return {'baseline': paris, 'benchmark': barcelona}

[crisjf]

commit 784f3b12f61fa1f2b83c2bb54153495549f808b0 adds placeholder return_baseline function to Indicator class. The Handler class still does not know what to do with the return_baseline function.