.. _about: About ======== History ------- This project was started by Alex Eftimiades in 2019 as part of an internal R&D effort focused on model monitoring and sensitivity analysis. With early usage, testing, and utility contributions from Dwight Gunning, Matthew Gillett, and Mona Annaparthi, this lead to the ``supervisor`` submodule and many of the initial ideas that became the ``thresholding``, ``sobol``, and ``credibility`` modules. Subsequent work on explainability lead to ``interprenet`` and the normalized mutual information score within ``metrics``. Authors ------- The following people are currently core contributors to Model Validation Toolkit's development and maintenance: .. include:: authors.rst Please see :doc:`contributing ` to join us! Acknowledgements ------- We thank David Devakumar, Mohamad Ibrahim, Jonathan Bryant, and Ahmed Ibrahim for their support, feedback, and help allocating resources to work on this project. We thank Nil Weerasinghe for his help organizing R&D efforts.