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lewisfogden / heavylight

A lightweight actuarial modelling framework for Python
https://lewisfogden.github.io/heavylight/
MIT License
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renaming the package #41

Open MatthewCaseres opened 4 months ago

MatthewCaseres commented 4 months ago

heavylight is a famous algorithm so maybe this package can't be easily found online. why not rename to LifeInsurance and then people look up "life insurance python" and find out about it?

edit: another way to increase discoverability is making PR to lifelib once package more stabilized

lewisfogden commented 3 months ago

It's pretty far down search, but I've not really promoted it (just internally in my company, and our linkedin posts). Not sure about LifeInsurance, its a bit specific, although if we prepackaged some example user libraries it would work. How would PRing to lifelib work? Isn't it dependent on modelx background?

I had the name 'projectionist' in mind at one point, so it could work? (I think there was a conflicting library) Suggestions welcome.

I own https://digitalactuary.co.uk/ (it's still referring to the old version, heavymodel) so I could also repoint it at github pages.

MatthewCaseres commented 3 months ago

I mean however you get it visible to searches for "life insurance Python". Life insurance modeling is pretty niche so you personally promoting it within your circle might be more valuable than a small amount of SEO.

Lifelib is the top search result for many queries. Lifelib isn't only a modelx thing anymore, I believe a pull request implementing an existing model would be accepted.

The basic idea of this issue is that heavylight is already a compsci thing so even if you were the top result for heavylight related queries it wouldn't necessarily be good for search quality on the internet.

edit: and also "I like the name and I'm closing this issue" is a totally reasonable response

lewisfogden commented 3 months ago

I'm not too attached to it, but it does the job :)

Could go for VectorLife since we're pretty much shaping the package around vectorised modelling?

MatthewCaseres commented 3 months ago

Yeah that'd make sense.