8th Session- Computer Simulations (ABM2)
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This session we deal with the following questions: I. What are some characteristics of agent-based computer simulations? II. What are the outcomes of agent-based computer simulations? III. What are some critiques of agent-based computer simulations? |
1- Lecture: Watch the following lectures and answer the interactive questions (which are graded). We recommend to use the following slide print-outs to take notes.
1slidePerPage_UCCSS_Frey.pdf Download 1slidePerPage_UCCSS_Frey.pdf
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UCCSS_Frey1: CSS for Your Choices (6min) UCCSS_Frey2: Code You Can Live By (7min) |
CSS against COVID: How computational social science can help us better prepare for societal challenges Links to an external site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7rc0u4Gsg
Links to an external site.
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UCCSS_Glymour_1: Social Epidemiology (8min) UCCSS_Glymour_2: Conceptual Model (7min) |
1slidePerPage_UCCSS_ABM2_Hilbert.pdf Download 1slidePerPage_UCCSS_ABM2_Hilbert.pdf
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I. What are some characteristics of ABM?
UCCSS_ABM2_01: Today's Questions (4min)
UCCSS_ABM2_02: Agent-Based Emergence (14min)
UCCSS_ABM2_03: Social Bursts (5min)
UCCSS_ABM2_04: Intuitive Presentation (5min)
UCCSS_ABM2_05: Context Sensitivity (5min)
UCCSS_ABM2_06: Probabilistic Humbleness (13min)
II. What are the outcomes of ABM?
UCCSS_ABM2_07: Four Model Outcomes (16min)
III. What are some critiques of ABM?
UCCSS_ABM2_08: Analytical & Numerical (11min)
UCCSS_ABM2_09: All Models are Wrong (10min)
UCCSS_ABM2_10: Occam's Razor (5min)
UCCSS_ABM2_11: Science: Pure Creativity (11min)
(total 2h 38min)
2- Lab
In this lab you will grow an artificial society in NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/ ). Watch the following lab tutorials.
UCCSS_LAB_ABM: First Turtle (14min)
UCCSS_LAB_ABM: Moving Turtle (9min)
UCCSS_LAB_ABM: Communicating Turtles (13min)
Each of these videos is accompanied by a graded quiz question: 8th Session- Agent-Based Modeling
Optional / Voluntary / Complementary:
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Where do "turtles" come from? A Logo Primer Links to an external site.
- The complete video of Seymour Papert's Introduction to Recursion Links to an external site. (29min)
- Mayeda, E. R., Banack, H. R., Bibbins-Domingo, K., Zeki Al Hazzouri, A., Marden, J. R., Whitmer, R. A., & Glymour, M. M. (2018). Can survival bias explain the age attenuation of racial inequalities in stroke incidence? A simulation study Links to an external site.. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.).