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Users
1 - Coders
If you are a coder, you may be a data scientist or software engineer by training or are perhaps a quantitative researcher who spends a high proportion of their time writing code to undertake their work.
Role
The primary role of coders in ready4 modelling projects is to author modules that implement computational models.
Tools
The ready4 tools of most use to coders are the software framework libraries for authoring modules.
Benefits
ready4 provides an opportunity to write software that matters! Our aim is to help improve the lives of young people through empowering decision makers with better models. If you already write code for youth mental health modelling projects, the ready4 software framework may help you enhance your impact (facilitating code re-use) and work-efficiency (through partial automation of code development and quality-assurance workflows).
Contributing to ready4
The types of contribution you can make to ready4 include:
2 - Modellers
If you are a modeller, you are responsible for the overall implementation of a modelling study from initial conceptualisation through to analysis and reporting. You are likely to be an economist, epidemiologist or statistician and are probably reasonably comfortable with writing analysis scripts in statistical software (potentially including R), without necessarily being a coding wizard.
Role
The primary role of modellers in ready4 modelling projects is to use modules to undertake analyse as part of modelling projects.
Tools
The ready4 tools of most use to modellers are the software framework libraries for authoring model datasets and analyses and model module libraries for use in computational modelling.
Benefits of using ready4
We hope that ready4 can be of benefit to you by helping you to efficiently build on work by other modellers, to implement more reproducible workflows, and to share your work so that it can be reused.
Contributing to ready4
The types of contribution you can make to ready4 include:
3 - Planners
If you are an planner, you contribute to policy development or service planning to help immprove the mental health of young people. You probably value the role of modelling to inform your work, but are likely to rely on others to provide much of the technical expertise to implement computational models.
Role
The primary role of planners in ready4 modelling projects is co-design and use of models to support decision making.
Tools
The ready4 tools of most use to planners are user-interfaces that convert computational models into useful decision aids.
Benefits of using ready4
We hope that ready4 can provide you with transparent reusable and updatable decision support.
Contributing to ready4
The types of contribution you can make to ready4 include: