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Overview
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``Ash`` is a Python language software package to describe, model, and study dynamic complex hypernetworks.

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Who uses Ash?
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The potential audience for ``Ash`` includes mathematicians, physicists, biologists, computer scientists, and social scientists.

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Goals
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``Ash`` is a python temporal hypergraph library providing:

- tools for the study dynamic social, biological, and infrastructure hypernetworks,
- a rapid development environment for collaborative, multidisciplinary, projects.

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The Python Ash library
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``Ash`` is a powerful Python package that allows simple and flexible modelling of dynamic hypernetworks enriched with node attributes.

Most importantly, ``Ash``, as well as the Python programming language, is free, well-supported, and a joy to use.

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Free software
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``Ash`` is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the BSD License.
We welcome contributions from the community.

.. _halp: https://murali-group.github.io/halp/