README.md

benford-project

Application analyzing if given dataset satisfies Benford's law or not.

Requirements

To run application docker-compose is needed.

Run application

To run application execute following comands in benford-project directory:

docker-compose up

After that application interface will be available under localhost:4200 link.

Backend API: localhost:8000/api.

Test application

To run backend tests execute following command (the application has to be running):

docker-compose exec web python benford_backend/manage.py test benford_analyzer

Explanation

Application checks if given dataset satisfies Benford's law by Chi Square statistic test with 95% significance level.

Application input:

• Flat text file with required '7_2009' column which contains only integer data

Application output:

• Information if given data satisfies Benford's law or not
• Generated graph with given data first number's frequency distribution compared to Benford's distribution