Publish an article on QE libraries

[jstac]

@Smit-create suggests the following:

I was just going through some of the open source projects like sympy, SciPy etc. and saw that they published their papers in some journals like:

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0686-2
2. https://peerj.com/articles/cs-103/

I am just curious if we have any such plans for the QuantEcon too? I see that there are many such libraries publishing their articles in the Journal of open source: https://joss.theoj.org/.

This sounds like a good idea. We could summarize some of the components of these libraries and --- hopefully --- cite some projects where they have been used.

The most obvious target is JOSS, as suggested by @Smit-create. My problem is time but perhaps it could be a joint effort where everyone contributes a little bit. @Smit-create is offering to help.

CC @sglyon @cc7768 @thomassargent30 @mmcky @oyamad

[Smit-create]

Hi @jstac,

Just a suggestion -- as a basic outline we can divide this article into the following sections:

1. Abstract
2. Introduction and Background
3. QuantEcon capabilities
   3.1. markov
   3.2. optimize
   3.3. game_theory
   3.4. miscellaneous
4. Architecture (we can include some details like using numpy/numba etc.)
5. Some benchmark results (speed results with and without numba or comparison with other libraries if exist.)
6. Future Work (maybe compatibility with GPU or Jax.)

Please let me know if the above sections look good. I'm sure there might be more such ideas to include and I'm open to discussions. I can start working on any of these sections. Looking forward to all of your suggestions!

[jstac]

Created a repo for this article: https://github.com/QuantEcon/qe_libraries_article

[sglyon]

This is great. Other than going through the effort of writing it, I don't see any downside to have a paper!