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CityDashboard makes it to the Mayor of London’s Office and the BBC!

CASA colleague Steven James Gray used the API from CityDashboard, which I created early last year by aggregating various free London-centric data feeds into a single webpage, to power the data for a 4×3 array of iPads, mounted in a wooden panel, itself iPad-esque in shape. The “iPad wall” was mounted in the Mayor of […]

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Putting Networks into Economics: A Manifesto

A recent meeting of minds at MIT, described as an “anti-disciplinary conference for the intellectually promiscuous,” can have left little doubt in the minds of its attendees: the network is the paradigm du jour. The whole event was awash with the edges and nodes of an on-trend way of thinking about the world. Either explicitly, […]

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Census Atlas Japan

The 2011 Census Open Atlas project has been put on hold recently as various other research projects have intervened – more on these soon. However, over the summer  Chris Brunsdon and I have taken a research trip to Ritsumeikan University (Japan) where we visited Keiji Yano and Tomoki Nakaya. As part of this trip I began developing a census atlas for […]

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Would you like to join the PGRG committee?

TweetThe RGS-IBG Population Geography Research Group (PopGRG) will be electing committee members to four posts at the forthcoming AGM: Chair Societies’ Liaison Officer Postgraduate Liaison Officer Early Career Officer (new post)   Would you like to join the committee? For further information about PopGRG see http://popgeog.org/. For enquiries or expression of interest in the vacancies […]

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‘Keeping the spirit alive’ – preservations of participatory GIS values in the Geoweb

During the symposium “The Future of PGIS: Learning from Practice?” which was held at ITC-University of Twente, 26 June 2013, I gave a talk titled ‘Keeping the spirit alive’ – preservations of participatory GIS values in the Geoweb, which explored what was are the important values in participatory GIS and how they translate to the […]

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ODD with human decision-making

In the Department of CSS, we often encourage our students when writing term papers (or any paper) with respect to agent-based models to use the Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) Protocol (Grimm et al., 2006). This relates to the fact that is not only challenging building an agent-based model but also describing the model in enough detail to all for replication or comparison. Müller et al., (2013) have recently extended to ODD so that it is easier to have a standard way of describing decsion making within agent-based models.The paper is well worth a read.

Original Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) protocol (Source: Grimm et al., 2006).

Extended ODD for describing human decisions in agent-based models – ODD + D (Source: Müller et al., 2013)

Full references to the papers:

Grimm, V., Berger, U., Bastiansen, F., Eliassen, S., Ginot, V., Giske, J., Goss-Custard, J., Grand, T., Heinz, S., Huse, G., Huth, A., Jepsen, J., Jorgensen, C., Mooij, W., Muller, B., Pe’er, G., Piou, C., Railsback, S., Robbins, A., Robbins, M., Rossmanith, E., Ruger, N., Strand, E., Souissi, S., Stillman, R., Vabo, R., Visser, U. and Deangelis, D. (2006),A Standard Protocol for Describing Individual-Based and Agent-Based Models‘, Ecological Modelling, 198(1-2): 115–126.

Müller, B., Bohn, F., Dreßler, G., Groeneveld, J., Klassert, C., Martin, R., Schlüter, M., Schulze, J., Weise, H. and Schwarz, N. (2013),Describing Human Decisions in Agent-based Models – ODD + D, An Extension of the ODD Protocol‘, Environmental Modelling and Software, 48: 37-48.

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ODD with human decision-making

In the Department of CSS, we often encourage our students when writing term papers (or any paper) with respect to agent-based models to use the Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) Protocol (Grimm et al., 2006). This relates to the fact that is not only challenging building an agent-based model but also describing the model in enough detail to all for replication or comparison. Müller et al., (2013) have recently extended to ODD so that it is easier to have a standard way of describing decsion making within agent-based models.The paper is well worth a read.

Original Overview, Design concepts, and Details (ODD) protocol (Source: Grimm et al., 2006).

Extended ODD for describing human decisions in agent-based models – ODD + D (Source: Müller et al., 2013)

Full references to the papers:

Grimm, V., Berger, U., Bastiansen, F., Eliassen, S., Ginot, V., Giske, J., Goss-Custard, J., Grand, T., Heinz, S., Huse, G., Huth, A., Jepsen, J., Jorgensen, C., Mooij, W., Muller, B., Pe’er, G., Piou, C., Railsback, S., Robbins, A., Robbins, M., Rossmanith, E., Ruger, N., Strand, E., Souissi, S., Stillman, R., Vabo, R., Visser, U. and Deangelis, D. (2006),A Standard Protocol for Describing Individual-Based and Agent-Based Models‘, Ecological Modelling, 198(1-2): 115–126.

Müller, B., Bohn, F., Dreßler, G., Groeneveld, J., Klassert, C., Martin, R., Schlüter, M., Schulze, J., Weise, H. and Schwarz, N. (2013),Describing Human Decisions in Agent-based Models – ODD + D, An Extension of the ODD Protocol‘, Environmental Modelling and Software, 48: 37-48.

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