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143. Gerrits</a> and I would like to thank the Health and Social Theory Research group at Durham University for the chance to present today on COMPLEX-IT. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmMmdrDAys_egHytmytNwLoMnA6nSKKmq17iU_TJOr9oWYZ5QC7vFiCwY79ooAv7wBb-Yipep9X2pfPxaWE-FTAVHQsYzKhyjQNLi5Mx6pCbTt9I6pg2Ea5tZk1De_ViW86MVcbqE8nNrXmK3ni61Mp8jGtRetLQRVSz5bNHteHzf2O2dRHn-SJqwPFv1/s544/BookCover4.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="383" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmMmdrDAys_egHytmytNwLoMnA6nSKKmq17iU_TJOr9oWYZ5QC7vFiCwY79ooAv7wBb-Yipep9X2pfPxaWE-FTAVHQsYzKhyjQNLi5Mx6pCbTt9I6pg2Ea5tZk1De_ViW86MVcbqE8nNrXmK3ni61Mp8jGtRetLQRVSz5bNHteHzf2O2dRHn-SJqwPFv1/w141-h200/BookCover4.png" width="141" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Our presentation is based on <b><a href="https://www.atlassocialcomplexity.org/" target="_blank">The Atlas of Social Complexity</a></b>,
144. a book we recently completed, which will be launched spring 2024. Organised
145. around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an
146. invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and
147. students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity.
148. It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social
149. complexity. <br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
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151. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One area of significant promise
152. is the emergence of configurational social science (Chapter 20 and Chapter 30),
153. which sits at the nexus of case-based configurational approaches – specifically
154. QCA – intersectionality theory, critical complexity, and complex systems
155. thinking. </span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
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162. computational methods are case-based and configurational e.g., online websites
163. profiling users based on some configuration of factors. The challenge is making
164. these methods accessible to social scientists, including qualitative
165. researchers. Enter COMPLEX-IT, a freely available platform for users to explore
166. data using a bespoke suite of computational methods: cluster analysis, machine
167. learning, data visualisation, simulation, data forecasting and systems mapping.
168. A key strength of COMPLEX-IT is that is works with set theoretic data so that
169. users can explore their topic and its causality from a qualitative-comparative
170. perspective (QCA), including modelling set-theoretic data across time. In this lecture, we introduce the field of
171. configurative social science, the multi-methods involved in this approach and
172. their linkages to QCA, and then, as demonstration, a case study to explore how
173. COMPLEX-IT, a platform for multi-methods configurational research, can be used
174. to engage in a QCA approach using the latest developments in computational
175. methods. </span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="text-align: left;">
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178. LINKS TO MATERIALS FROM OUR PRESENTATION</span></b></h3>
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180. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.atlassocialcomplexity.org/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> to learn more about The Atlas of Social Complexity. </span></p>
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182. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AntwerpComplexitQCA.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CLICK HERE</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AntwerpComplexitQCA.pdf" target="_blank"> </a>for a link to our POWER POINT presentation.</span></p>
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186. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.complex-it-data.org/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">to explore COMPLEX-IT, including tutorials and example
187. dataset. </span></b></span></p>
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189. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jors.298" target="_blank">CLICKHERE</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for an introductory article
190. on COMPLEX-IT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275123003190" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a></b></span>for the article that our mock dataset is based on: </span>Gerrits, L., Pagliarin, S., Klein, K.
191. U., & Knieling, F. (2023). Tracing complex urban transformations in
192. Germany, Switzerland and Austria using trajectory-based qualitative
193. comparative analysis (TJ-QCA). <i>Cities</i>, <i>141</i>, 104507.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p>
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197. &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MockDataSet.csv&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt; for the mock QCA Urban Transformation Datase &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MockDataSet%20PREDICT.csv&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt; for the mock DATA FORECASTING QCA Urban Transformation Datase &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/2433562526990853862/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2024/02/complex-it-user-friendly-platform-for.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/2433562526990853862'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/2433562526990853862'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2024/02/complex-it-user-friendly-platform-for.html' title='COMPLEX-IT: A User-friendly platform for Combining QCA and Case-based Computational Modelling'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmMmdrDAys_egHytmytNwLoMnA6nSKKmq17iU_TJOr9oWYZ5QC7vFiCwY79ooAv7wBb-Yipep9X2pfPxaWE-FTAVHQsYzKhyjQNLi5Mx6pCbTt9I6pg2Ea5tZk1De_ViW86MVcbqE8nNrXmK3ni61Mp8jGtRetLQRVSz5bNHteHzf2O2dRHn-SJqwPFv1/s72-w141-h200-c/BookCover4.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-7580378070674962781</id><published>2023-12-12T16:03:00.009+00:00</published><updated>2023-12-13T13:25:40.617+00:00</updated><title type='text'>COMPLEX-IT: A User-friendly platform for doing QCA with computational methods</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdnu3_Ou3-8MX10qLB5gBl_3cJkJWz4pymrsGWAfc-5jiiz41tIYHg6SDiQ8dvZHu2gSGELVvCM-Clvv_H1SVFdhjYEwZJh8LLntNR0KFeuwuWhXwwBc_2OPXE3Kl8cln-G1a-nYlj07HL8YQCLs5CODFPwlunGmIXear91CR40q_FS0Jm-mFG6zRFWvf/s1616/Screenshot%202023-12-12%20at%2011.01.23.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;416&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1616&quot; height=&quot;82&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdnu3_Ou3-8MX10qLB5gBl_3cJkJWz4pymrsGWAfc-5jiiz41tIYHg6SDiQ8dvZHu2gSGELVvCM-Clvv_H1SVFdhjYEwZJh8LLntNR0KFeuwuWhXwwBc_2OPXE3Kl8cln-G1a-nYlj07HL8YQCLs5CODFPwlunGmIXear91CR40q_FS0Jm-mFG6zRFWvf/s320/Screenshot%202023-12-12%20at%2011.01.23.png&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 11pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits&quot;&gt;Lasse
198. Gerrits</a> and I would like to thank the organisers for the opportunity to
199. present at the <a href="https://compasss.org/intlqca/">11th International QCA
200. Workshops, Antwerp 2023</a>.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Our presentation is based on <b><a href="https://www.atlassocialcomplexity.org/">The Atlas of Social Complexity</a></b>,
201. a book we recently completed, which will be launched spring 2024. Organised
202. around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an
203. invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and
204. students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity.
205. It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social
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211. is the emergence of configurational social science (Chapter 20 and Chapter 30),
212. which sits at the nexus of case-based configurational approaches – specifically
213. QCA – intersectionality theory, critical complexity, and complex systems
214. thinking. </span><p></p>
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220. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;">While not widely recognized, the majority of
221. computational methods are case-based and configurational e.g., online websites
222. profiling users based on some configuration of factors. The challenge is making
223. these methods accessible to social scientists, including qualitative
224. researchers. Enter COMPLEX-IT, a freely available platform for users to explore
225. data using a bespoke suite of computational methods: cluster analysis, machine
226. learning, data visualisation, simulation, data forecasting and systems mapping.
227. A key strength of COMPLEX-IT is that is works with set theoretic data so that
228. users can explore their topic and its causality from a qualitative-comparative
229. perspective (QCA), including modelling set-theoretic data across time. </span></p>
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233. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-ligatures: none;">In this lecture, we introduce the field of
234. configurative social science, the multi-methods involved in this approach and
235. their linkages to QCA, and then, as demonstration, a case study to explore how
236. COMPLEX-IT, a platform for multi-methods configurational research, can be used
237. to engage in a QCA approach using the latest developments in computational
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243. <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.atlassocialcomplexity.org/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> to learn more about The Atlas of Social Complexity. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p>
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245. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AntwerpComplexitQCA.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CLICK HERE</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AntwerpComplexitQCA.pdf" target="_blank"> </a>for a link to our POWER POINT presentation.</span></p>
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252. <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/jors.298" target="_blank">CLICKHERE</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for an introductory article
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331. readers may recall, my colleague <a href="https://engineering.buffalo.edu/engineering-education/people/directory/schimpf-corey.html" target="_blank">CoreySchimpf </a>and I published an article in
332. 2022 identifying a new area of methods development, called <b><span style="color: #ff8141;">smart and approachable methods</span></b><span style="color: #ff8141;"> </span>or <b><i><span style="color: #ff8141;">AM-Smart </span></i></b>for
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336. methods emerged over the last several years out of the intersection of smart technology, human-computer
337. interface, educational design and interdisciplinary methods. AM-Smart platforms
338. address a major challenge for applied and public sector analysts, educators and
339. those trained in traditional methods: accessing the latest advances in
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354. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Examples
355. include R-shiny programs, computational modeling and statistical apps,
356. public-sector data management platforms, data visualization tools, and smart
357. phone apps. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
358.  
359. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
360.  
361. <h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What about ChatGPT for advanced data analysis?</span></h2>
362.  
363. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">What we had
364. not thought about was that advances such as ChatGPT also constituted a form of
365. AM-Smart methods. That is until today, when I saw an advertisement for a 2-day <a href="https://instats.org/" target="_blank">instats</a> workshop by <a href="https://people.lu.usi.ch/gruberp/">Peter Gruber</a>, titled, appropriately
366. enough, <span style="color: #ff8141;"><a href="https://instats.org/seminar/using-chatgpt-for-statistical-analysis-w2?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Sendgrid" target="_blank">UsingChatGPT for Advanced Data Analysis</a>. </span>Here is the brief description of
367. the workshop:<span style="color: #ff8141;"></span></span></p>
368.  
369. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
370.  
371. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;">This 2-day workshop teaches
372. researchers, from PhD students to professors, how to use ChatGPT and its
373. Advanced Data Analytics tool for statistical analysis without writing a line of
374. code or even knowing how to use a statistics program. The seminar covers a
375. range of topics from data preparation and descriptive statistics to regression
376. analysis, advanced statistical tests and visualisation. Special emphasis is
377. placed on understanding the workings and limits of AI models such as ChatGPT
378. and reflecting on its implications for data analysis.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"></span></p>
379.  
380. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
381.  
382. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">In addition
383. to the description of the workshop, what caught my eye was the instats description
384. of Gruber’s work around teaching methods. </span></p>
385.  
386. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
387.  
388. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dr Gruber has been an early adopter of Large Language Models for
389. teaching and research and leads the efforts of USI to integrate LLMs into the
390. curriculum. He has been teaching statistics, financial econometrics and
391. numerical methods with MATLAB, Python and R since 2005 at USI, University of
392. St. Gallen, University of Geneva and Bocconi.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></p>
393.  
394. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> This was insightful, because it suggested the approach that is very much driving the AM-Smart movement. Which is super cool.<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
395.  
396. <h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is not the only workshop!!!</span></h2>
397.  
398. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">To lean
399. more, I started exploring on Google if other such workshops or courses were
400. being offered. They are being offered! Lots of them. A whole new field of study and pedagogy
401. seems to have emerged over night! Digital sociology and data science have a lot
402. to think about!</span></p>
403.  
404. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
405.  
406. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><b><i>Which led
407. me to next ask, What is ChatGPT for advanced data analysis?</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
408.  
409. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
410.  
411. <h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What is ChatGPT for advanced data analysis?</span></h2>
412.  
413. <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4U2GlURMkBEV6u25R8RSOlcOpaR55VeII4uFW0OcyblE1seou9q_NeqwLR56JmCmYFqrR0aTZQuE0S8WtTuKAYWiRQZImmMfhWNqLzb74aRiklKZuRU41C2JposoZPZ8iTpzl_lu10BTISf4pEAm_uSm5jtO_5GgNh_wfHw96xSg-eboVSJtOXiyre0K/s1280/ChatGPT_logo.svg.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4U2GlURMkBEV6u25R8RSOlcOpaR55VeII4uFW0OcyblE1seou9q_NeqwLR56JmCmYFqrR0aTZQuE0S8WtTuKAYWiRQZImmMfhWNqLzb74aRiklKZuRU41C2JposoZPZ8iTpzl_lu10BTISf4pEAm_uSm5jtO_5GgNh_wfHw96xSg-eboVSJtOXiyre0K/w105-h105/ChatGPT_logo.svg.png" width="105" /></a></div><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">The best I
414. can understand is that in August 2023, ChatGPT recently launched a new business
415. version called <a href="https://openai.com/enterprise" target="_blank">ChatGPT Enterprise</a>. Part
416. of the package is the revamping of what used to be called <a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins#code-interpreter" target="_blank">CodeInterpreter</a> – one of the quickly <a href="https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins" target="_blank">expanding list of Plugins</a> being
417. developed for ChatGPT – into its new version called Advanced Data Analysis – <a href="https://www.pluralsight.com/resources/blog/data/ChatGPT-Advanced-Data-Analytics">click
418. here</a> for a nice summary.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> <br /></span></p>
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420. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
421.  
422. <h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Let’s not get too excited!!!!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></h2>
423.  
424. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">As Corey
425. and I outlined in our <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2022.2111817" target="_blank">articleon AM-Smart methods</a>, while offering new possibilities for data analysis, <i><span style="color: #ff8141;">critical reflection on AM-Smart platforms</span></i><span style="color: #ff8141;"> </span>reveals considerable unevenness in these design
426. features, which hamper their effectiveness. </span></p>
427.  
428. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
429.  
430. <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A rigorous
431. research agenda is vital. </span></b></p>
432.  
433. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
434.  
435. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">A case in
436. point is ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis.</span></p>
437.  
438. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">First, while currently free,
439. it is not clear if it will not stay that way for long. This is potentially a major issue and goes
440. against the open-access environment of current science and programming
441. platforms such as R.</span></p>
442.  
443. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Second, it is not a bespoke
444. suite of methods. It is unclear what sorts of algorithms are used in the background
445. to do the work. What are the limits of these methods?</span></p>
446.  
447. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Third, it is not as user-friendly as
448. it suggests. Part of the whole point of AM-Smart methods is ease of access. For example, there are limits to what data can be used and
449. how it can be used. I am sure these issues will be addressed going forward, but
450. presently the plug-in seems to be very much at the ground level.</span></p>
451.  
452. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">There is still a significant
453. learning curve to using it, including getting the plug-in to work.</span></p>
454.  
455. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">Then there is the issue of
456. data safety and access globally! </span></p>
457.  
458. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 18pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
459.  
460. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Then there is the question
461. of pedagogy and value for teaching. </span>It is key to have methods experts such as Peter Gruber involved in the development of AM-Smart methods, such as ChatGPT.  There are so many questions to explore. Is this a good way to learn statistics? Is fast statistics good statistics? What about gaming? Is that a good way to use methods? For example, I am
462. increasingly worried about students not learning the math behind the methods
463. they use, in the case of numerical analysis, and, in turn, the craft of qualitative
464. inquiry, as in the case of ethnography. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
465.  
466. <h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Conclusion?</span></h2>
467.  
468. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">My short
469. conclusion is that ChatGPT is a good example of AM-Smart methods but comes with
470. lots of concerns that require the methods community to engage with it before endorsing
471. it. </span></p>
472.  
473. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
474.  
475. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">I do not
476. make this point nonchalantly, as these sorts of smart tools are not the
477. necessary future of methods. There is no inevitability here. Instead, there is
478. lots of room for creative but critical interrogation and development, both for educational purposes and for
479. the wider usage of methods in research, policy and practice. </span></p>
480.  
481. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;"> </span></p>
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705. {margin-bottom:0cm;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/7331836495343106160/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/10/using-chatgpt-for-advanced-data.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/7331836495343106160'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/7331836495343106160'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/10/using-chatgpt-for-advanced-data.html' title='Using ChatGPT for Advanced Data Analysis - An example of the field of AM-Smart methods (approachable modelling and smart methods)'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a0FNQDauJ5GKQ90CTwXOwAjTwZcNZ8SReg69vQuV6R-VZoy-Ld0MqDqoF6gwJZxlhCquRZXnqOkL7Kso23MQ4GOXgMLW80Kta-CxYBUHKyq5mSlraIaWivu5QHZvbSqHxT0BUJBdVVpfyefS3szyWUNiS4KTW6sY_foNIDwRANOqwE8-p16Pea8_hJNS/s72-w264-h284-c/Screenshot%202023-10-11%20at%2009.49.09.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-6567559526287935909</id><published>2023-10-04T10:54:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2023-10-04T10:55:10.434+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Actearly Methods Club: The COMPLEX-IT Platform and Smart Methods at University of York</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;
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724. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Much thanks to <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/people/philip-garnett/">Philip
725. Garnett</a> and <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/our-staff/liina-mansukoski/">Liina
726. Mansukoski</a> for the chance to present at the <a href="https://actearly.org.uk/">ActEarly</a> Methods Club at University of
727. York. (ActEarly focusses on early life changes to improve the
728. health and opportunities for children living in areas with high levels of child
729. poverty; Bradford, West Yorkshire and Tower Hamlets, London.)</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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736. <p class="MsoNormal"> Abstract: </p>
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738. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Smart platforms constitute an
739. entirely new field of methods that are still in the emergent stage, requiring
740. critical engagement and also the real potential to develop a new methodological
741. toolkit for social and health inquiry. Smart platforms are comprised of bespoke
742. tools that facilitate user-driven learning by building expertise into the
743. platform to create an intuitive, supportive, and open-ended environment for
744. complex social and health inquiry. Unlike statistical platforms, AM-Smart
745. platforms focus on a single technique or small network of interrelated (mostly
746. computational) methods, which help users engage new methods. Smart platforms
747. provide method-specific operational scaffolding, rapid and formative feedback,
748. and which requires modest technical skill while being rigorous and reliable.
749. This session will introduce this newly emerging field by exploring the AM-Smart
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756. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Brian
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758. Durham University, UK. He is also editor of the<a href="https://www.routledge.com/Complexity-in-Social-Science/book-series/CISS" target="_blank"> Routledge Complexity in Social Science series</a>, CO-I for
759. the<a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/about-us/cecan-team/brian-castellani/" target="_blank"> Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus</a>,
760. and a Fellow of the <a href="https://acss.org.uk/" target="_blank">UK National
761. Academy of Social Sciences</a>. Brian also runs <a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/" target="_blank">InSPIRE</a>, a UK
762. policy and research consortium for mitigating the impact places have on air
763. quality, dementia and brain health across the life course. Brian and his
764. colleagues have spent the past ten years developing a new case-based, data
765. mining approach to modelling complex social systems and social complexity,
766. called <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">COMPLEX-IT</a>, which they have used to help researchers,
767. policy evaluators, and public sector organisations address a variety of complex
768. public health issues. <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/brian-c-castellani/" target="_blank">Staff
769. Profile</a></span></p>
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774. for a link to a PDF of my presentation</span></b></p>
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779. for a link to our paper on AM-Smart Methods</span></b></p>
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845. Wistow</a> and I would like to thank <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Patrik-Nordin" target="_blank">Patrik Nordin</a>, <a href="https://www.uwasa.fi/fi/henkilo/2134560" target="_blank">Helka Kallomäki</a>, <a href="https://www.uwasa.fi/en/person/2236108" target="_blank">Harri Jalonen</a>, <a href="https://www.uwasa.fi/en/person/2442143" target="_blank">Paula Rossi </a>and their team
846. for the opportunity to attend and present at the <a href="https://www.uwasa.fi/en" target="_blank">University of Vaasa </a>summer
847. school workshop, <i>Writing Policy & Practice Relevant Research Papers:
848. Why, What, When and How?</i></p>
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852. <p class="MsoNormal">Our presentation was on the “What?” of policy practice</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1x53S6cOeQH3Oq_tbEGsrJOmUWrD9qrGM0v7lYx32WYYLRmOaWeJWhz_eOsHD2ykaxNSa6oZgSHaNBNt3ssgwIylaeWQsTxC0sXfxMdVSfvecYd720fvhoq9UHaFKlhA2m7gobm7ZFOp4l68h7MndkLeoLE3v_Hsd0HEHjEKxDWbnqZqhR8gxP0nWcUX/s818/Screenshot%202023-09-21%20at%2013.51.19.png"><img border="0" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="818" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD1x53S6cOeQH3Oq_tbEGsrJOmUWrD9qrGM0v7lYx32WYYLRmOaWeJWhz_eOsHD2ykaxNSa6oZgSHaNBNt3ssgwIylaeWQsTxC0sXfxMdVSfvecYd720fvhoq9UHaFKlhA2m7gobm7ZFOp4l68h7MndkLeoLE3v_Hsd0HEHjEKxDWbnqZqhR8gxP0nWcUX/w200-h71/Screenshot%202023-09-21%20at%2013.51.19.png" width="200" /></a></div>  <br /><p></p>
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854. <p class="Default"><b><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 11pt;">InSPIRE
855. Consortium for Mitigating the Impact of Air Pollution on Brain Health: Doing
856. research to make an impact on policy and practice </span></i></b><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 11pt;"></span></b></p>
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860. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">InSPIRE is a UK policy and
861. research consortium devoted to mitigating the impact that air pollution and the
862. exposome have on brain health (including cognitive function, cognitive frailty,
863. mental health and dementia). As a knowledge hub/network, we have three foci:
864. Acting as a repository for the latest advances in research, practice, and
865. policy guidance. Co-producing tools and translational materials for the public
866. and third sector. Engaging in world-leading research on places, the exposome
867. and brain health. For this talk, I will explain how we set up the consortium to
868. maximise our impact on policy and practice in this area and how informs the
869. research we do and the works we publish.</span></p>
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873. <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14pt;">HERE ARE
874. SOME KEY LINKS:</span></b></p>
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877.  
878. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/INSPIREVaasa.pdf">CLICK
879. HERE</a> for a PDF of the presentation</p>
880.  
881. <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
882.  
883. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/">CLICK HERE</a> to
884. visit InSPIRE Consortium</p>
885.  
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887.  
888. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/">CLICK HERE</a> to visit
889. CECAN</p>
890.  
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892.  
893. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html">CLICK HERE</a>
894. to visit the MAP OF COMPLEXITY SCIENCES</p>
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995. Elsenbroich</a> and team for organising the <a href="https://ssc23-sphsu.online/">18th Social Simulation Conference</a>, which
996. was hosted by the <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/" target="_blank">MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit </a>University
997. of Glasgow, 4-8th September 2023. Thanks also for inviting me to be one of the
998. keynote speakers. Also, thanks to the audience for the great dialogue and
999. engagement. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The conference is one of the key activities of the <b><a href="http://www.essa.eu.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)</a></b> to promote social simulation and computational social science in Europe and elsewhere.
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1009. to escape the dilemmas of complex systems modelling in public health:</span></b></span></p>
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1017. need to apply a complex systems modelling approach to public health. What is
1018. less clear is how to do this effectively. Research and practice have shown
1019. mixed results, due to a series of dilemmas. A short list includes: a strong
1020. tendency to model public health issues instead of interrogating the
1021. development, implementation and evaluation of systems-level interventions; public
1022. health practitioners and funding organisations being biased toward simple,
1023. individual-level, short-term solutions based on clinical trials; modellers
1024. being tone deaf about the roadblocks to applying simulations to public health;
1025. the need to focus on stakeholder engagement; and an overemphasis on
1026. computational models over qualitative methods. Fortunately, a small but growing
1027. global network of scholars are charting new territory. They are part of a fresh
1028. turn in complexity and modelling, the social science turn, which fosters a
1029. transdisciplinary, social complexity imagination that, in one way or another,
1030. addresses the field’s current dilemmas to create new areas of disruptive and
1031. highly innovative social inquiry. The Atlas of social complexity – written with
1032. Lasse Gerrits, forthcoming 2024 Edward Elgar – charts this new territory,
1033. seeking to map its present future; which we do by outlining a set of ‘best
1034. practices’ (with examples of scholars doing this work) for applying social
1035. complexity to public health modelling. These include: (1) challenging social
1036. physics and reductionism, (2) rethinking complex causality and system dynamics,
1037. (3) emphasising co-creation and context, (4) understanding real-world policy
1038. making, (5) modelling at multiple levels and with multiple models, (6)
1039. developing interdisciplinary methods and using qualitative data, (7) grounding
1040. models in rigorous social science, and (8) accepting the limits of what
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1045. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/GlasgowKeynote.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></b><span> for a link to the PDF of my presentation</span></span></span></p>
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1114.  
1115. <span style="font-family: verdana;">Much thanks to <a href="https://www.marquette.edu/psychology/directory/stephen-guastello.php" target="_blank">Stephen Guastello</a> and colleagues for the chance to present at the <a href="https://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf/2023/schedule.cgi" target="_blank">Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life Sciences 33rd Annual International Conference</a> 2-4 August, 2023 at the Fields Institute at University of Toronto.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">For my talk, I presented on our (mine and <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits" target="_blank">Lasse Gerrits</a>) forthcoming <i>Atlas of Social Complexity.</i> My focus was on the complexity of psychology and the psychology of complexity research taking place at the forefront of the social science turn in the complexity sciences and the study of social complexity </span></p><p><b style="font-family: verdana;">The book, which will be published in 2024, is as follows. Keep an eye out for it! <span style="color: #0b5394;">CITATION:</span> </b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: verdana;">Castellani, Brian and Gerrits, Lasse. Forthcoming 2024. <i>The Atlas of Social Complexity</i>. Edward Elgar. </span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;">MATERIALS: </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <b><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AtlasComplexPsychology.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for the PDF of my presentation</b></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;">(note: slides are copyrighted, so please acknowledge if referenced or used) <b><br /></b></span></li><li><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
1116. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html">CLICK HERE</a>
1117. for the Complexity Sciences Map</p>
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1124. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK
1125. HERE</a> to explore COMPLEX-IT and its software, tutorials, etc.</p>
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1134. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-case-based-methods/book230470&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE &lt;/a&gt;for the Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/1432250596007090179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/08/much-thanks-to-stephen-guastello-and.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/1432250596007090179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/1432250596007090179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/08/much-thanks-to-stephen-guastello-and.html' title='The Atlas of Social Complexity and the latest research in complexity and psychology. Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology &amp; Life Sciences 33rd Annual International Conference '/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQtOUo4T618E8qxUumxy0YbJtEsm4RMwJv7aGSS-PmtjG7CnKzb9VPOv9wjbFkLKUzOy-emndA_Pzjq9AaNEIpiBsDZdguLQOL850oj8IysurjUTnfSCSfLEndITfCHoGZ54Tc4NMqHUn9NnUMbymPugkvS2mofnZFzbrp13C0xDHgTRXGsd7bkJdf8Ze/s72-c/Screenshot%202023-08-03%20at%2009.59.32.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-4751388622257885804</id><published>2023-07-02T08:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2023-07-02T08:11:40.658+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Smart and approachable methods for stakeholders in policy and diplomacy -- ICCS CONFERENCE CoDip</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;
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1154. Schimpf</a> and I presented our work as part of the <a href="https://codip.github.io/2022-12-15-workshop-open/">Computational
1155. Diplomacy and Policy Workshop</a> July 3rd, Prague, 2023, for the <a href="https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2023/">International Conference on
1156. Computational Science</a>. The workshop was run by <a href="https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/l/e/m.h.lees/m.h.lees.html">Michael Lees</a>,
1157. <a href="https://cui.unige.ch/~chopard/">Bastien Chopard</a>, and <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/brian-c-castellani/">me</a>.</p>
1158.  
1159. <p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>TITLE</b></p>
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1161. <p class="MsoNormal">The complexities of policy, data and computational methods:
1162. Charting a new, case-based, social science grounded, AM-Smart methods approach</p>
1163.  
1164. <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
1165.  
1166. <p class="MsoNormal">Co-authors, in addition to Corey and me, include <a href="https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/people/peter-barbrook-johnson/">Peter
1167. Barbrook-Johnson</a>, <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
1168. Gerrits</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophercaden2001/">Christopher
1169. Caden</a></p>
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1177. <p class="MsoNormal">In the globalized worlds in which we live, governments
1178. cannot escape the uncertainty, interdependence, and complexity of current public
1179. policy. Nor can they escape the urgent need for sweeping policy reform –
1180. infrastructural, political, environmental, social – to address this complexity,
1181. including the coordinating local, national, and international policies and
1182. stakeholders. Governments are also confronted presently with a big-data flood
1183. of information and the promised ‘sales pitch’ of computational science – from
1184. modelling and simulation to data science and artificial intelligence – to
1185. correctly guide decision-making. While such complexities of policy, data and
1186. methods is not an entirely new problem, what is of critical importance is how
1187. rather ineffective it has all been. The promise of complexity and computation
1188. has struggled to live up to expectation. A shift has emerged in the policy landscape,
1189. albeit minor, involving a ‘social science turn’ in complexity and computational
1190. modelling. This ‘turn’ involves using the theories, concepts, methods and
1191. empirical insights of social science to inform the complexity and computational
1192. sciences. In terms of specifics, leading areas of research includes
1193. co-production for simulation; participatory design; rigorous stakeholder
1194. engagement; a resurgence in systems mapping; mixed-methods development, such as
1195. qualitative comparative analysis and agent-based modelling; addressing issues
1196. of power and inequalities in the policy landscape, including grounding policy
1197. in a complexities of place approach; adopting a case-based perspective; and
1198. co-designing more easily accessible computational modelling platforms, called
1199. AM-Smart methods. </p>
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1203. <p class="MsoNormal">Our presentation will seek to outline this ‘social science’
1204. turn in complexity and computational modelling and its implications for
1205. improving public policy. This outline will include (1) a brief overview of the
1206. above advances; (2) a quick introduction to a methods platform we developed,
1207. COMPLEX-IT, which has incorporated many of the social science turn advances
1208. into its design; and (3) critically reflect on the strengths and weakness of
1209. the social science turn, including barriers to and levers for advancing the
1210. utility of this approach across team members with distinct roles, perspectives,
1211. and intersections with public policy work. All with the goal of helping to
1212. advance the field of computational policy/diplomacy.</p>
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1217.  
1218. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html">CLICK
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1220.  
1221. <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
1222.  
1223. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/">CLICK HERE</a> TO ACCESS
1224. CECAN</p>
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1227.  
1228. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://prsm.uk/">CLICK HERE</a> TO ACCESS PRSM –
1229. PARTICIPATORY SYSTEMS MAPPER</p>
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1233. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01919-7">CLICK HERE</a> FOR
1234. OPEN ACCESS BOOK, SYSTEMS MAPPING</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://ias.uva.nl/themes/governance-of-complexity/polder/polder.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a>FOR POLDER CENTER AT UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/research-methods/" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> FOR DURHAM RESEARCH METHODS CENTRE <br /></p>
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1238. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/ICCPolicyComp.pdf">CLICK HERE</a> for
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1319. and <a href="https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/professor-colin-martin">Colin Martin</a>
1320. and the University of Suffolk for the opportunity to present at their <i><a href="https://www.uos.ac.uk/content/together-transformation-conference-2023">Together
1321. for Transformation Conference</a></i>, which focused on exploring
1322. transformational research to support collaboration, innovation and policy
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1328. consortium, housed at Durham University, devoted to mitigating the impact that
1329. air pollution and the exposome have on brain health (including cognitive
1330. function, mental health and dementia). <a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/">CECAN</a> is the Centre
1331. for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I presented on the latest policy brief we have released on transforming
1332. policy on air quality and brain health. <a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/copy-of-publications">CLICK HERE FOR
1333. POLICY BRIEF</a>. The brief is based on a 2022 article we published, <i><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122016899">Mitigating
1334. the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy
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1339. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/InSPIREPolicySuffolk.pdf"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CLICK HERE for
1340. PDF of PowerPoint</span></span></a> </span></p>
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1346. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span>Background: </span></b><span>Emerging research suggests exposure to high levels of
1347. air pollution at critical points in the life-course is detrimental to brain
1348. health, including cognitive decline and dementia. Social determinants play a
1349. significant role, including socio-economic deprivation, environmental factors
1350. and heightened health and social inequalities. Policies have been proposed more
1351. generally, but their benefits for brain health have yet to be fully explored.</span></span></span></p>
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1355. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span>Objective and methods: </span></b><span>Over the course of two years, we worked as a
1356. consortium of 20+ academics in a participatory and consensus method to develop
1357. the first policy agenda for mitigating air pollution's impact on brain health
1358. and dementia, including an umbrella review and engaging 11 stakeholder
1359. organisations.</span></span></span></p>
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1363. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span>Results: </span></b><span>We identified three policy domains and 14 priority
1364. areas. Research and Funding included: (1) embracing a complexities of place
1365. approach that (2) highlights vulnerable populations; (3) details the impact of
1366. ambient PM2.5 on brain health, including current and historical high-resolution
1367. exposure models; (4) emphasises the importance of <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/indoor-air-pollution" title="Learn more about indoor air pollution from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages">indoor
1368. air pollution</a>; (5) catalogues the multiple pathways to disease for brain
1369. health and dementia, including those most at risk; (6) embraces a life course
1370. perspective; and (7) radically rethinks funding. Education and Awareness
1371. included: (8) making this unrecognised public health issue known; (9)
1372. developing educational products; (10) attaching air pollution and brain health
1373. to existing strategies and campaigns; and (11) providing publicly available
1374. monitoring, assessment and screening tools. Policy Evaluation included: (12)
1375. conducting complex systems evaluation; (13) engaging in co-production; and (14)
1376. evaluating air quality policies for their brain health benefits.</span></span></span></p>
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1380. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b><span>Conclusion: </span></b></span><span><span style="color: #0b5394;">Given the pressing issues of brain health, dementia
1381. and air pollution, setting a policy agenda is crucial. Policy needs to be
1382. matched by scientific evidence and appropriate guidelines, including bespoke
1383. strategies to optimise impact and mitigate unintended consequences. The agenda
1384. provided here is the first step toward such a plan.</span></span></span></p>
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1445. DRMC has had a busy academic year and we are only two-thirds of the way
1446. through! Since autumn, through the Research Methods Café and other
1447. avenues, we have had research conversations on research interview
1448. methods, discussed R software, worked with our new DRMC Student Fellows,
1449. set up the new research themes, and developed a Power Automate guide to
1450. process separate reviewing of anonymous and identifiable information
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1452. DRMC has tremendous capacity to become a world-leading hub for
1453. intellectual engagement around methods. Toward this effort, the
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1455. is Professeur des Universités in Psychology of Sport and Exercise at
1456. the Université de Montpellier. Christophe specialises in the application
1457. of complexity modelling, in particular, dynamical systems theory, to
1458. topics in social psychology and sports psychology. For more on his work,
1459. <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fcitations%3Fuser%3DY2pOBvwAAAAJ%26hl%3Den&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=aa8af6c1ef3164bb805be7a9125df398c87d3be575b139b328c5a942b35a99f8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">click here</span></a>.<br aria-hidden="true" /> <br aria-hidden="true" />While at Durham, Christophe gave two lectures. The first – <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="12" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frontiersin.org%2Farticles%2F10.3389%2Ffpsyg.2019.02531%2Ffull&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=9695ca77fb235437ecc9bfee375c237260483cf887dfab6f3d6590c279c8e82f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">The dynamics of approach and avoidance motivation: A key to understanding (non-) sporting lives?</span></a><i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> – </span></i>was for the Department of Sport and Exercise at Durham. The second – <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="13" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Feuropepmc.org%2Farticle%2Fppr%2Fppr586178&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=9dda1ae9a22da5a37f6b817c05f22b9d49bd1f7fb0eded8be9c54a9a4870b501" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">On the reproducibility issue: Will psychological science ever exorcise Laplace’s Demon?</span></a><i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> – was for the DRMC.</span></i> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6.75pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 0cm;" valign="top"><p align="right" class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-imagetype="External" height="156" id="x_x__x0000_i1037" src="https://mcusercontent.com/2c4e9071cb1e0e7935bce6c0b/images/38f2569c-386d-246d-5650-76e743c1deb8.jpg" style="height: 1.625in; width: 1.625in;" width="156" /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 346px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 0cm 13.5pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="14" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fengineering.buffalo.edu%2Fengineering-education%2Fpeople%2Fdirectory%2Fschimpf-corey.html&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=14b7a077b9568bda601f2d89285a247acee5a72848e00c1535e1e31f51c65555" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #007c89;">Dr Corey Schimpf</span></b></a><b><i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">, </span></i></b><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">State University of New York, USA</span></b><br aria-hidden="true" />Corey
1460. is in the Department of Engineering Education, University of Buffalo,
1461. State University of New York, USA. His expertise is in agent
1462. architecture and AI, design research and design thinking, data
1463. visualization, critical studies, data mining, educational technology,
1464. case-based methods, research methods, and computational social science.<br aria-hidden="true" /> <br aria-hidden="true" />Corey is part of the international DRMC team developing the AM-Smart methods platform, <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="15" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.art-sciencefactory.com%2Fcomplexit.html&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=a6b5b8d8f4297a20563e072ca6d37c93d6db7f1b0c3ed999f4b53daac913b052" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">COMPLEX-IT</span></a>
1465. – which non-experts can use to run some of the latest developments in
1466. computational modelling. We are presently developing a systems mapping
1467. tab and a fast-ABM tab. Corey visited Durham in October to present on a
1468. paper he and I recently wrote, <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="16" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tandfonline.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1080%2F13645579.2022.2111817&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=88d966e56586ea72c912bb2f444fa6a068164dbfc1fff319b557688711b0c4d4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study</span></a>. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6.75pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 0cm;" valign="top"><p align="right" class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-imagetype="External" height="274" id="x_x__x0000_i1036" src="https://mcusercontent.com/2c4e9071cb1e0e7935bce6c0b/images/d8915472-f368-5556-f359-8397c868fcf7.jpg" style="height: 2.8541in; width: 1.8958in;" width="182" /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 346px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 0cm 13.5pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="17" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmiamioh.edu%2Fcec%2Facademics%2Fdepartments%2Fcse%2Fabout%2Ffaculty-and-staff%2Fgiabbanelli-philippe%2F&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=b842c8516341e9e42d2283eb5266c2a4a09dda1b90674e04678ec8da18fe65f4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #007c89;">Dr Philippe Giabbanelli</span></b></a><b><i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">, Miami University, USA</span></i></b><br aria-hidden="true" /><i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">Philippe
1469. is truly a global scholar. Born in France, studied in Canada, did his
1470. post-doctoral studies at Cambridge, and is presently working in the
1471. States. </span></i>Philippe’s research group primarily work on
1472. simulation models and machine learning for public health. More
1473. specifically, they are focused on discrete simulation models (e.g.,
1474. agent-based modeling, cellular automata), network analysis, and machine
1475. learning (e.g., classification, performance analysis). Currently, his
1476. main projects are (i) using machine learning to accelerate large-scale
1477. simulations and (ii) shifting from ‘big’ to ‘useful’ data by identifying
1478. the minimum parts of a dataset needed to quickly make accurate
1479. predictions. <br aria-hidden="true" /> <br aria-hidden="true" />Philippe is
1480. part of the international DRMC team developing new approaches to
1481. agent-based modelling. He was also a great colleague and support during
1482. the COVID pandemic, as the world community of modellers, of which our
1483. DRMC was a team, came together to quickly develop various models of the
1484. pandemic. As a result, we wrote the following paper together, <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="18" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fabstract%2Fdocument%2F9552089%2F&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=353d67d71835008e65f51142174a194d8c03db540af1f9c95ee7d6519f28ac65" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Opportunities and challenges in developing covid-19 simulation models: Lessons from six funded projects</span></a>.<br aria-hidden="true" /> <br aria-hidden="true" /><i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">In
1485. March, Philippe brought his global experience and methods expertise to
1486. Durham to work on a research paper with our team and to do two
1487. presentations. The first was Agent-based modelling for public health:
1488. New methods and applications to obesity and suicide</span></i>. This is highly innovative work, engaging in co-creation for developing simulation models. It was an exciting talk! <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="19" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fabstract%2Fdocument%2F10015509&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=e0b155a1bad93aedeb39e1b065aa2dd05d48be28c09f70604aa5d046384585db" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Click here</span></a> and also <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="20" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2F2078-2489%2F14%2F3%2F196&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=7abde923bb8d8473c677c42d6b2aa601a0a3a7f90de093ee379d4c9409d5c19c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">click here</span></a> for two papers on which this presentation was based. The second presentation, which you can <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="21" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DnqjZxNry2i4&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=382825599513e0c26bc8e987f96f8f357b676bcde06fc377fa403d460d559d2f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">click here to watch on <i><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">YouTube</span></i></span></a>, and which builds on the first, was Participatory modelling and mixed-methods for public health simulations. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6.75pt 0cm 0cm;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; padding: 0cm; width: 450pt;" valign="top" width="600"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%; word-break: break-word;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm 13.5pt 6.75pt;" valign="top"><h2><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">Looking forward to 2023-2024.</span></b></h2><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #202020; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Building
1489. on our initial success, we will invite several more international
1490. scholars. So far, we are hoping we will be able to invite the following colleagues, perhaps for a conference on the philosophy of complexity. Stay tuned! </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6.75pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 0cm;" valign="top"><p align="right" class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-imagetype="External" height="183" id="x_x__x0000_i1035" src="https://mcusercontent.com/2c4e9071cb1e0e7935bce6c0b/images/385396a8-d6de-a352-006f-19c999ba46a9.jpg" style="height: 1.9062in; width: 1.8958in;" width="182" /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 346px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 0cm 13.5pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="22" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.uva.nl%2Fen%2Fprofile%2Fr%2Fu%2Ff.russo%2Ff.russo.html%3Fcb&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=fea66e4d0ee488bcc7a843cc667f7c02bea8c3f7f74752b5649353151210398b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #007c89;">Dr Federica Russo</span></b></a><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands</span></b><br aria-hidden="true" />Federica
1491. is a philosopher of science, technology, and information based at the
1492. University of Amsterdam. Her current research concerns epistemological,
1493. methodological, and normative aspects as they arise in the biomedical
1494. and social sciences, and in highly technologized scientific contexts.
1495. She is currently working on an edited volume on complexity in causality.
1496. For more on her work, <a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="23" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Frussofederica.wordpress.com%2F&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=f7703d2a2c19ac0a435dd7e9eb2e1a5104396bf1f17fe3ea364d8935863c2341" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span style="color: #007c89;">Click here</span></a>. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 6.75pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0cm;" valign="top"><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 0cm;" valign="top"><p align="right" class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-imagetype="External" height="164" id="x_x__x0000_i1034" src="https://mcusercontent.com/2c4e9071cb1e0e7935bce6c0b/images/f1bf61fa-6f5e-56ee-f470-2e1ab41a168d.jpg" style="height: 1.7083in; width: 1.3437in;" width="129" /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 346px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 0cm 13.5pt 13.5pt;" valign="top"><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="24" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ihs.nl%2Fen%2Fabout%2Fihs-staff%2Fihs-management-team%2Flasse-gerrits&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=5b4f4852a7256776401041b75be652bec8770981376e83d2e6e4f2d6b94ed045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #007c89;">Prof. dr dr, Lasse Gerrits</span></b></a><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">, Erasmus University, Netherlands</span></b><br aria-hidden="true" />Lasse
1497. is Academic Director of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development
1498. Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research focuses
1499. on social scientific research methods, complexity sciences, systems
1500. theories, urban planning and development, governance, railway systems,
1501. infrastructure development, qualitative research methods, qualitative
1502. comparative analysis, network analysis, system modelling,
1503. socio-technological evolution. </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="right" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="x_x_MsoNormalTable" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 200px;"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 13.5pt 13.5pt 13.5pt 0cm;" valign="top"><p align="right" class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-imagetype="External" height="144" id="x_x__x0000_i1033" src="https://mcusercontent.com/2c4e9071cb1e0e7935bce6c0b/images/f2760cc4-0233-a8b4-05d1-e29eb5a129d0.jpg" style="height: 1.5in; width: 1.5in;" width="144" /></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="25" data-safelink="true" href="https://us7.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fisciachair.mandela.ac.za%2FStaff&xid=be01772797&uid=151890638&iid=990be52511&pool=cts&v=2&c=1682623559&h=09a869d6d97d9c7d4e44e07dada0b315a5a1a007d6d75d00507351dae8e9da94" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #007c89;">Prof. Andrea Hurst,</span></b></a><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont"> Nelson Mandela University, South Africa</span></b><br aria-hidden="true" />Andrea
1504. is Chair in Identities and Social Cohesion in Africa, at Nelson Mandela
1505. University. Another global scholar, Andrea was awarded PhD in
1506. Philosophy from Villanova University, Philadelphia, 2006. Her research
1507. focused on bringing complexity-thinking in continental philosophy into
1508. contact with psychoanalytic theory, leading to the publication of a book
1509. entitled Derrida vis-á-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and
1510. Psychoanalysis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008). Presently,
1511. her work remains engaged, broadly speaking, in examining the interfaces
1512. between philosophy as a way of life in its many dimensions,
1513. psychoanalytic thinking, and the development of notions of ethical
1514. responsibility within the contemporary paradigmatic shift from
1515. “simplicity” to “complexity.”&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/8458428777658956174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/world-leading-global-scholars-visiting.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/8458428777658956174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/8458428777658956174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/world-leading-global-scholars-visiting.html' title='World-Leading Global Scholars Visiting and Working with the DRMC Team and Fellows'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-1290786178416123095</id><published>2023-04-25T08:19:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2023-04-25T08:25:12.386+01:00</updated><title type='text'> Complexity scientists and those interested in complex systems research, please do better literature reviews</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy1n-TvW9O-nyEcSFf2Snn2lzUMRnmjI6DlhglP-vZ-s2A0FGnegxXP037tG5ycQc2tXHCe9ujueJ-TIAKoeETg8tUwyJ7XCyDVesXULQN3rHdQECecuc8f2uXiyWeqq3NtAqBT7NlyhF3Jte4ChJNzB3gLnf4mXrE6wwycD2T9YGA42Y7qikN9HQQw/s1280/tumblr_c37fbcd174f1bd6fa5156b27fff81726_54a688ae_1280.jpeg&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;1280&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1280&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy1n-TvW9O-nyEcSFf2Snn2lzUMRnmjI6DlhglP-vZ-s2A0FGnegxXP037tG5ycQc2tXHCe9ujueJ-TIAKoeETg8tUwyJ7XCyDVesXULQN3rHdQECecuc8f2uXiyWeqq3NtAqBT7NlyhF3Jte4ChJNzB3gLnf4mXrE6wwycD2T9YGA42Y7qikN9HQQw/s320/tumblr_c37fbcd174f1bd6fa5156b27fff81726_54a688ae_1280.jpeg&quot; width=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;Perhaps it is anecdotal on my part. But it seems to happen far too often lately. I am reading an article or book on the application of the complexity sciences to some topic only to have to endure the authors failing to cite some landmark publication or even just failing to cite the literature their peers have published on the same topic!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;Worse is when authors confine their citations to scholars in their own country or their own small collegial network. Reading the literature, one would sometimes think that the complexity sciences were independently developed in various countries throughout the world, because far too often scholars ignore those outside their small collegial networks, even when doing the exact same research!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;I know the complexity sciences constitute a massive field of study. I know, even when developing our map of the complexity sciences, that studies can be missed. And I know we cannot cite everyone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;But come on! . . .&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: verdana;&quot;&gt;Complexity scientists and those interested in complex systems research, please do better literature reviews. It is misleading and lacking scientific rigour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/1290786178416123095/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/complexity-scientists-and-those.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/1290786178416123095'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/1290786178416123095'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/complexity-scientists-and-those.html' title=' Complexity scientists and those interested in complex systems research, please do better literature reviews'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy1n-TvW9O-nyEcSFf2Snn2lzUMRnmjI6DlhglP-vZ-s2A0FGnegxXP037tG5ycQc2tXHCe9ujueJ-TIAKoeETg8tUwyJ7XCyDVesXULQN3rHdQECecuc8f2uXiyWeqq3NtAqBT7NlyhF3Jte4ChJNzB3gLnf4mXrE6wwycD2T9YGA42Y7qikN9HQQw/s72-c/tumblr_c37fbcd174f1bd6fa5156b27fff81726_54a688ae_1280.jpeg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-6209016114362285632</id><published>2023-04-19T07:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2023-04-19T07:21:36.421+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The Atlas of Social Complexity: Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent Possible (Workshop at Nelson Mandela University)</title><content type='html'>
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1535. Hurst </a>and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Anton Botha</a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Harsheila Riga</a> for the opportunity to run a
1536. workshop on complexity at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Nelson Mandela
1537. University</a>. The workshop is based on a forthcoming book in 2024 – <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>The
1538. Atlas of Social Complexity</b> </span>(<a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/">Edward Elgar
1539. Publishing</a>) -- that <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-management-team/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
1540. Gerrits</a> and I are in the final stages of writing. </p>
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1544. <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: #351c75;">Here is the Workshop Abstract</b></p>
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1548. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Although the
1549. complexity sciences have done much to advance the social sciences, over the
1550. last decade the field has run into some hard situations – thirteen to be exact.
1551. Some are self-imposed, others come from how 21<sup>st</sup> century science is
1552. conducted. Examples include ignoring </span>the wider social sciences;
1553. privileging computational modelling over qualitative research; and <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">b</span>eing tone-deaf about the real world. </p>
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1557. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">These situations presently
1558. prevent the study of social complexity from becoming the disruptive,
1559. transdisciplinary field it originally sought to be in the 1990s when the <i>complexity
1560. turn</i> in the social sciences took place. </span></p>
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1564. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fortunately, a
1565. small but growing global network of scholars are charting new territory. They
1566. are part of a fresh turn in complexity, the <i>social science turn</i>, which
1567. fosters a transdisciplinary, social complexity imagination that, in one way or
1568. another, addresses the field’s thirteen situations to create new areas of
1569. disruptive and highly innovative social inquiry. The <i>Atlas of social
1570. complexity</i> charts this new territory, seeking to map its present future. </span></p>
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1574. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Organised around
1575. five major themes – (1) Cognition, emotion and consciousness, (2) Dynamics of
1576. human psychology, (3) Living in social systems, (4) Advancing a new methods
1577. agenda, and (5) The unfinished space – the Atlas functions as a tour guide,
1578. surveying over thirty leading-edge research areas (some still under
1579. construction) that readers can variously combine and develop. </span></p>
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1581. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
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1583. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Atlas is a
1584. practical guide for those seeking new ideas and new avenues of study to pursue,
1585. all in the hope of fostering the transdisciplinary social complexity
1586. imagination needed to address some of the biggest global challenges we, as a
1587. world community, presently face. </span></p>
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1591. <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>The purpose of
1592. this interactive Workshop is to introduce the Atlas to foster a discussion on
1593. the future of the field and for </span></b><b><span style="color: black;">participants to explore what a future map might look like for
1594. their work</span></b><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"></span></p>
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1599. </span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AtlasSocialComplexity.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> is a link to the Main PowerPoint</span></b></p>
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1602. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html">CLICK HERE</a>
1603. for the Complexity Sciences Map</p>
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1608. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MethodsConCOMPLEXIT.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for the Methods PowerPoint.</p>
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1611. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK
1612. HERE</a> to explore COMPLEX-IT and its software, tutorials, etc.</p>
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1615. </span></span></span><a href="http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for a published article on COMPLEX-IT </p>
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1618. </span></span></span><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/big-data-mining-and-complexity/book257490" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for Big Data Mining and Complexity</p>
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1621. </span></span></span><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-case-based-methods/book230470" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a>for the Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 18.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;"> </p>
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1747. {margin-bottom:0cm;}&lt;/style&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/6209016114362285632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-atlas-of-social-complexity-mapping.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/6209016114362285632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/6209016114362285632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-atlas-of-social-complexity-mapping.html' title='The Atlas of Social Complexity: Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent Possible (Workshop at Nelson Mandela University)'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNKMJ1Y9HGXqrEcMnQ1LIFMPO2jBhkmgXEhWxwtFq0Lmnsvh2flHuLVdjF_1kc8ye-n4sLT7IUk8wDsha-Dz-qT97KO7DDAypXP8J-Ko_8w_ihvo5YqkqiOEDGTuWjZUtWDyhVld3tGuvUGb51LF9nAGq_tG0Vbj4ELJtq_xxwoPcbAFTj82jW-YcQA/s72-w387-h261-c/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20at%2008.06.26.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-2467830470027076536</id><published>2023-04-18T09:13:00.013+01:00</published><updated>2023-04-19T06:50:50.066+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Early Life Brain Development, Air Pollution and the Exposome:  A Complexity Perspective (Lecture at Nelson Mandela University)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWryZlnCrctFQWJJSUkrHV5CgaspZO7JdaerVRahPdDN1anjLxFp_2NK0ayxVnLnrOmhb1TjErb8h2N3z8RU2if2zGNTgfJSnhIF6e3TnnIf7q1Zf1zqAgB-Fu76tClbS334cRpdPVINKTJ_Qua9oNcrldnKjCUgvdEKPCYtr0MkwVwsKbpZ9xnltIQ/s648/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20at%2010.10.55.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;422&quot; data-original-width=&quot;648&quot; height=&quot;180&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWryZlnCrctFQWJJSUkrHV5CgaspZO7JdaerVRahPdDN1anjLxFp_2NK0ayxVnLnrOmhb1TjErb8h2N3z8RU2if2zGNTgfJSnhIF6e3TnnIf7q1Zf1zqAgB-Fu76tClbS334cRpdPVINKTJ_Qua9oNcrldnKjCUgvdEKPCYtr0MkwVwsKbpZ9xnltIQ/w277-h180/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20at%2010.10.55.png&quot; width=&quot;277&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span face=&quot;&amp;quot;Calibri&amp;quot;,sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;&quot;&gt;I
1748. would like to thank <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Andrea Hurst </a>and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Anton Botha</a> and <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Harsheila Riga</a> for the opportunity to
1749. present my work on early Life Brain Development, Air Pollution and the
1750. Exposome: A Complexity Perspective  at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Nelson
1751. Mandela University</a>. The
1752. purpose of the talk is to outline a new framing of the exposome, allostatic
1753. load and brain health grounded in a case-based complexities of place
1754. perspective. </span></p>
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1764. environmental exposures during early life development, in particular air
1765. pollution, are crucial to the brain health that children and adolescents (and
1766. the communities in which they live) subsequently experience throughout their
1767. life-course. Brain health ranges from neurodegenerative disease and
1768. developmental disorders to cognitive function and mental health. Given this
1769. pathways to disease link to development, a new field of study has emerged
1770. called the exposome. The exposome is a complex configuration of all the
1771. exposures a community and its individuals experience in a lifetime and how the
1772. multifaceted chemistry of the systems in which people live meet with the
1773. complexities of the human brain and public health – particularly in terms of
1774. health and social inequalities. For example, by 2050, 24% of global deaths will
1775. be linked to the environment; 30-55% to social determinants; and over 139
1776. million people will have dementia at a global cost of $2.8 trillion. Mitigating
1777. these public health issues by intervening in early life development is key. The
1778. theoretical challenge, however, is how best to make sense of such complexity.
1779. The purpose of this presentation is to explore how a complex systems view of the
1780. intersection between social determinants and the exposome and their impact on brain
1781. health development as a function of place is the best approach for advancing
1782. such a difficult, interdisciplinary field of study and its policy implications.
1783. The case study as evidence will be the latest research on air pollution and
1784. brain health in early life and adolescence.</span></blockquote><p></p>
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1790. <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #00b050; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here is the<a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/"><span style="color: #00b050;"> link to InSPIRE</span></a></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #00b050; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #00b050; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #00b050;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #00b050; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-BE4G8jl5ro6e4UqBuzgnXCLkjQg0hiWuzcZ7E_L7R1AXJ6TUwTOIw4VH6lM4Su5hToywlqvmQk_9HQZEUt1B7Vr11-iRsX7slXiG_U6VlyDtiOSV_7SCwj60Do8k2gG2YKsJljpFqdyXI1CI6cJy6YfkTqUBpr_CH4Rmfv8MIWWu9q8XWPBXGox8g/s1887/Picture%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1233" data-original-width="1887" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-BE4G8jl5ro6e4UqBuzgnXCLkjQg0hiWuzcZ7E_L7R1AXJ6TUwTOIw4VH6lM4Su5hToywlqvmQk_9HQZEUt1B7Vr11-iRsX7slXiG_U6VlyDtiOSV_7SCwj60Do8k2gG2YKsJljpFqdyXI1CI6cJy6YfkTqUBpr_CH4Rmfv8MIWWu9q8XWPBXGox8g/w514-h336/Picture%201.jpg" width="514" /> </a></span></span></b></div><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #00b050; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #00b050;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"><span style="color: black; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Vermeulen, R., Schymanski, E. L.,
1791. Barabási, A. L., & Miller, G. W. (2020). The exposome and health:
1792. Where chemistry meets biology. <i>Science</i>, <i>367</i>(6476), 392-396.</span></div> </div><br /> </span></span></b><p></p>
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1845. {page:WordSection1;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/2467830470027076536/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/early-life-brian-development-air.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/2467830470027076536'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/2467830470027076536'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/04/early-life-brian-development-air.html' title='Early Life Brain Development, Air Pollution and the Exposome:  A Complexity Perspective (Lecture at Nelson Mandela University)'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWryZlnCrctFQWJJSUkrHV5CgaspZO7JdaerVRahPdDN1anjLxFp_2NK0ayxVnLnrOmhb1TjErb8h2N3z8RU2if2zGNTgfJSnhIF6e3TnnIf7q1Zf1zqAgB-Fu76tClbS334cRpdPVINKTJ_Qua9oNcrldnKjCUgvdEKPCYtr0MkwVwsKbpZ9xnltIQ/s72-w277-h180-c/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20at%2010.10.55.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-8148782098628418518</id><published>2023-03-31T19:12:00.006+01:00</published><updated>2023-03-31T19:14:21.738+01:00</updated><title type='text'>There is no god independent of human goodness.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;A friend of mine, who does not like social media or public attention, said I could post this quote from him. He is reading two books presently. &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Julius_Norwich&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;John Julius Norwich&#39;s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24042911&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sicily&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Reid&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Anna Reid&lt;/a&gt;&#39;s &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/anna-reid/borderland/9781399608824/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Borderland: A&amp;nbsp;journey through the history of the Ukraine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;Both countries, as most know, have suffered tremendously at the hands of others. Millions&amp;nbsp;upon millions of people being killed, exiled, or left living lives of desperation because of the terrible inhumanity and indifference of others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;&quot;&gt;My friend said something profound that I wanted to share:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&quot;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666;&quot;&gt;If you think there is a god, independent of human kindness and compassion, you are mistaken. All that stands between cruelty and suffering is the goodness of everyday people, willing to make a difference. The universe is otherwise silent.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/8148782098628418518/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/03/there-is-no-god-or-gods-independent-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/8148782098628418518'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/8148782098628418518'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/03/there-is-no-god-or-gods-independent-of.html' title='There is no god independent of human goodness.'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-4024035832225419974</id><published>2023-03-27T15:47:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2023-03-27T15:47:37.073+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Time and Process in QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) and Case-based Reasoning </title><content type='html'>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;
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1864. sparked a wide range of methodological developments. One area that deserves
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1918. the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University
1919. Rotterdam, organized the first Time-in-QCA (TiQ) workshop.   <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0pXO6PFuKYsIQDM5ZjuMD_YXDmmWdgo-IF_M72PCiDbKJCMlrIj2tA8WyrfyT0HwuA-ihHQLaLvCLKMmLEs4XPyw-oWvUe2xPok21OA_3-9UJsKxT5MIYW9MFj3xUoWixq2ArLWMx4sddJK2g0Vxvl3y51gBBRlys1bWRoJPW9nCzRSCm8uwYPHg4dw" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="288" data-original-width="608" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh0pXO6PFuKYsIQDM5ZjuMD_YXDmmWdgo-IF_M72PCiDbKJCMlrIj2tA8WyrfyT0HwuA-ihHQLaLvCLKMmLEs4XPyw-oWvUe2xPok21OA_3-9UJsKxT5MIYW9MFj3xUoWixq2ArLWMx4sddJK2g0Vxvl3y51gBBRlys1bWRoJPW9nCzRSCm8uwYPHg4dw" width="320" /></a></div>It was a fantastic session and I was honoured to get to present as part of the day's events. I presented on the links between a case-based computtional modelling approach and QCA for modelling longitudinal trajectories of cases and their corresponding complex causality.<br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">Sofia and Lasse have now
1920. produced a corresponding report of the workshop. You can find it on the <a href="https://compasss.org/" target="_blank">COMPASS website</a> (Comparative Methods for Systematic Cross-Case Analysis).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://compasss.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/20230321-TiQ1-workshop-report-final.pdf" target="_blank">HERE IS THE LINK </a><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">More than just reviewing the
1921. workshop itself, this report is essential reading for anybody interested in
1922. longitudinal QCA: it summarizes existing conceptualizations of the
1923. relationships among time and QCA, provides a high-level overview of
1924. methodological techniques for incorporating time and process into QCA, and identifies
1925. avenues and areas for future exploration.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">See also their paper: Pagliarin, S., & Gerrits, L.
1926. (2020). <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2059799120959170" target="_blank">Trajectory-based Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Accounting for case-based time dynamics.</a> <i>Methodological Innovations</i>, <i>13</i>(3), 2059799120959170.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"> </p>
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1973. {page:WordSection1;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/4024035832225419974/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/03/time-and-process-in-qca-qualitative.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/4024035832225419974'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/4024035832225419974'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2023/03/time-and-process-in-qca-qualitative.html' title='Time and Process in QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) and Case-based Reasoning '/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0RUJqWOJLjsE1OHd2m43nmQibQsNSzi94hU5cjsCJ8XWa_1MUWWP28iM4qmFmDX_au_X5VsHzVXbFjUMqEx7Ql0XDczqH9voTktjldqRzcyA96Ra35xwOHLE5byq3FsBVwF56SfWqlHFG_MCiv_Jfm-H5381Qy5JkyPDmn1CbTmdLRn0Qnhf6h_ishA=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-4232789620953576749</id><published>2022-10-05T12:56:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2022-10-05T13:17:48.237+01:00</updated><title type='text'>COMPLEX-IT: A software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_rDOGxfMI9uLUdj07XVC0X8GCc48jTkNxGu81Zs9MTmPBZF-8ty17yr1A03th6TmWERIhBmx41ViLEKUlbtMUfDpolm1MSDDF4XtT_WVBlOZ77yToq5k-JhPvi9sIwYxrkzvK8FD56NuhSCqdfoyTYdyCEb5DBQtXykgm49jcTGaeK3_5BdB0n0wAQ/s250/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.47.19.png&quot; style=&quot;clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;230&quot; data-original-width=&quot;250&quot; height=&quot;130&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_rDOGxfMI9uLUdj07XVC0X8GCc48jTkNxGu81Zs9MTmPBZF-8ty17yr1A03th6TmWERIhBmx41ViLEKUlbtMUfDpolm1MSDDF4XtT_WVBlOZ77yToq5k-JhPvi9sIwYxrkzvK8FD56NuhSCqdfoyTYdyCEb5DBQtXykgm49jcTGaeK3_5BdB0n0wAQ/w141-h130/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.47.19.png&quot; width=&quot;141&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Much thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.eur.nl/en/people/sofia-pagliarin&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Sofia Pagliarin&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Lasse Gerrits&lt;/a&gt; for the chance to present at the Time-in-QCA workshop at &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ihs.nl/en&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Erasmus University&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #7f6000;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;WORKSHOP OVERVIEW&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;The Time-in-QCA (TiQ) international workshop is an opportunity for scholars to discuss the different ways in which time and process can be integrated into the logic and workings of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as a research method and approach. The TiQ workshop is organised as a series of roundtables to foster constructive exchanges and discussions. Because of the specialised, and at the same time informal format of the workshop, we welcome work-in-progress ideas and ongoing empirical research integrating the time dimension into QCA both theoretically and methodologically.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #b45f06;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;COMPLEX-IT AND QCA &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: justify;&quot;&gt;For my talk, I presented on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/COMPLEXIT_QCA.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;i&gt;COMPLEX-IT: A software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCeU6hQ6GOlJvT2nHBOeVnCPRYDmg_qPUQWyz9DNeXo9BQeAR2rhPMkrw9XWuAdxcbqnHzERMpX-MP3M2afVahykNF8jmSTxGW-KVglFwtGg7kRanLGt29OTnk16RKqJlDSYVMnL8fYsK1xadrInVW8qQIp61E-82hbE1TZZwu5MtLAASRd2qnumTNUg/s1554/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.54.06.png&quot; 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target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE IS A LINK&lt;/a&gt; TO COMPLEX-IT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #7f6000;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium;&quot;&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/depressedhealth.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HERE IS A LINK&lt;/a&gt; TO OUR CO-MORBID DEPRESSION PHYSICAL HEALTH paper &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/4232789620953576749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/10/complex-it-software-package-for-case.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/4232789620953576749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/4232789620953576749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/10/complex-it-software-package-for-case.html' title='COMPLEX-IT: A software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_rDOGxfMI9uLUdj07XVC0X8GCc48jTkNxGu81Zs9MTmPBZF-8ty17yr1A03th6TmWERIhBmx41ViLEKUlbtMUfDpolm1MSDDF4XtT_WVBlOZ77yToq5k-JhPvi9sIwYxrkzvK8FD56NuhSCqdfoyTYdyCEb5DBQtXykgm49jcTGaeK3_5BdB0n0wAQ/s72-w141-h130-c/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.47.19.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-5160844428852766002</id><published>2022-09-30T09:56:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2022-09-30T09:59:48.966+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Health CASCADE Workshop: Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; 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&lt;/span&gt;and 29 &lt;span style=&quot;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;Sept 2022,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;I had the opportunity to present on &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/CASCADE_Presentation.pdf&quot;&gt;Co-producing
1974. complex systems interventions for public health</a></i>, as part of the <a href="https://healthcascade.eu/">Health CASCADE</a> three-day workshop in
1975. Amsterdam on co-creation.</span></p>
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1977. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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1979. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It was a lot of fun and a really brilliant group of faculty and
1980. students. Thanks again to </span><a href="https://research.vumc.nl/en/persons/mai-chinapaw">Mai Chin A Paw</a>, <a href="https://healthcascade.eu/esr15/">Kunshan Goh</a> and the rest of the team
1981. <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">for organising the event, and to </span><a href="https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/persons/sebastien-chastin">Sebastien Chastin</a>
1982. for the invite, <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and to everyone that
1983. attended the event. I really enjoyed the discussion and I hope the ideas we discussed prove somewhat useful. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
1984.  
1985. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
1986.  
1987. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ABOUT HEALTH CASCADE</b></span></span></p>
1988.  
1989. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>Before turning to my talk,
1990. here is a bit more about Health CASCADE. It is a brilliant project and something
1991. others should explore and promote! It is very much at the leading edge of
1992. co-creation for health.</i></p>
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1996. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Health CASCADE is a Marie
1997. Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Networks project funded by the European
1998. Union (H2020 MSCA ITN) (Project number 956501).</p>
1999.  
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2002. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The aim of Health CASCADE is to
2003. foster the next generation of highly trained research leaders to develop
2004. evidence based guiding principles, novel tools, and new technologies to make
2005. co-creation an effective tool to fight complex public health problems through a
2006. European Joint Doctoral Programme.</p>
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2010. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Global health challenges confront
2011. us all as individuals and communities – from obesity to pandemics, cancer to
2012. dementia – magnified by climate change and increasing inequality. These
2013. challenges are complex problems arising from multiple interconnected factors
2014. and feedback loops, resistant to existing public health programmes. We need new
2015. ideas and new approaches such as co-creation. By bringing together citizens,
2016. academics, businesses, and civil organisations, the project aims to co-create
2017. effective solutions to these complex problems.</p>
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2019. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
2020.  
2021. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>OVERVIEW OF MY TWO-DAY
2022. WORKSHOP</b></span></span></p>
2023.  
2024. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This two-day workshop explored the
2025. value of integrating complexity science and co-production for developing
2026. effective, evidence-based tools for addressing complex public health problems. (<a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/CASCADE_Presentation.pdf">HERE IS THE
2027. LINK to the PDF of my Presentation</a>)</span></p>
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2030.  
2031. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">BACKGROUND</span></b></span></p>
2032.  
2033. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A complex systems approach has been
2034. proposed as a powerful toolkit for addressing complex public health problems,
2035. including the important role of place. In turn, co-creation has gained traction
2036. for addressing the complexities of public health policy, practice, and
2037. promotion, particularly around issues of inequality and inequity. While both
2038. approaches offer vital strategies for addressing complexity in public health,
2039. researchers are only beginning to explore their integration. Hence the purpose
2040. of this workshop.</span></p>
2041.  
2042. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
2043.  
2044. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOP</span></b></span></p>
2045.  
2046. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Day 1 </b></span>provided a framework for
2047. thinking about complexity in public health. To develop this framework, we began
2048. with an introduction to the complexity sciences, including a map of its present-day
2049. trajectories. From there we examined the current challenges the field faces. Particular
2050. focus was given to the failure of most complexity science approaches –
2051. particularly in terms of computational modelling – to effectively engage
2052. stakeholders in the model building process, as well as the development or
2053. evaluation of public health policies and practices. Given our public health
2054. focus, the COVID-19 pandemic was used as our case study. We ended the day
2055. highlighting some examples where progress has been made in integrating
2056. complexity science and co-production, particularly participatory systems
2057. mapping and case-based complexity – which attendees got a chance to explore.</span></p>
2058.  
2059. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
2060.  
2061. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Day 2 </b></span>involved a series of break-out, small-group
2062. discussions. The first explored, from both an epistemological and practical
2063. level, which approaches to co-creation and complexity science might work best together
2064. (or not), or critically inform or challenge one the other, including different
2065. methods and tactics. The second session explored what sorts of methods or research
2066. projects, or case studies participants could develop to advance the integration
2067. of these two approaches to address complex public health problems.</span></p>
2068.  
2069. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
2070.  
2071. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">HERE IS A KEY POINT </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">– WHICH WE
2072. SOUGHT TO ARRIVE AT, BUT STILL HAVE LOTS TO DO TO GET THERE.</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> Co-creation emerged of late in response</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">to the
2073. limitations of science and policy and practice. Those same limitations are
2074. often found in the complexity sciences. How can co-creation address those
2075. similar limitations in the complexity sciences?</span> In turn, given <span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">its focus on collective decision making,
2076. co-creation struggles with complexity and systems thinking. How can the tools
2077. of complexity science help? Be it systems mapping, computational modelling, or
2078. network analysis? </span>
2079.  
2080. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
2081.  
2082. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>HERE ARE SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL
2083. LINKS from the Workshop</b></span></span></p>
2084.  
2085. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
2086.  
2087. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
2088. </span></span></span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01919-7">Here is an
2089. open-access book</a> by Barbrook-Johnson and Penn that is the gold standard on practical
2090. guidelines for doing systems mapping, including participatory systems mapping.</p>
2091.  
2092. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
2093.  
2094. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
2095. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829221002318">Here
2096. is an article</a> by two CASCADE members (Lead author, <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/niamh-smith-18301278">Niamh Smith</a> and
2097. co-author, <a href="https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/persons/sebastien-chastin">Sebastien Chastin</a>),
2098. using systems mapping and complex network analysis.</p>
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2102. <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">    </span></span></span><a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/">Here is the
2103. link to CECAN</a> and its resources (<a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/resources/toolkits/" target="_blank">complexity evaluation toolkit, tools for choosing appropriate evaluation methods</a>) for engaging stakeholders and doing policy
2104. evaluation from a complex systems perspective. CECAN stands for the Centre for
2105. the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus.</p>
2106.  
2107. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
2108.  
2109. <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     
2110. </span></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122016899">Here
2111. is an open-access article</a> by me and my colleagues that used participatory
2112. systems mapping to develop a co-created policy agenda for air quality and brain
2113. health and dementia.</p>
2114.  
2115. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
2116.  
2117. <p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">     </span></span></span><a href="https://www.communitycapacity.com.au/">See
2118. the community engagement work around co-creation and systems thinking</a> being
2119. done by <a href="https://people.unisa.edu.au/sharon.zivkovic">Sharon Zivkovic</a>
2120. and colleagues. </p>
2121.  
2122. <ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
2123.  
2124. <span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html">Here is the link to
2125. COMPLEX-IT</a>, the software package my colleagues and I developed for helping evaluators,
2126. civil servants, healthcare experts and public and third-sector </span>
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2291. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYULZSE34_pdCnolBY6WUqd3cMTMn7yotPN7opnI3Cj_X_Msv3bm7FviOF7QOARIWijUSwQGZwAZWKeP12BvR7TmB9tjI0gwKdLRB4snyoNIFwltSj4EYlquh0qX_BtOHlLRMic4IAw6E2Ake-Kfkw9z0yQmcKKKs5uJEtRNNECxhxVpM8e_0wC1jBuQ/s436/Screenshot%202022-09-29%20at%2006.51.03.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="436" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYULZSE34_pdCnolBY6WUqd3cMTMn7yotPN7opnI3Cj_X_Msv3bm7FviOF7QOARIWijUSwQGZwAZWKeP12BvR7TmB9tjI0gwKdLRB4snyoNIFwltSj4EYlquh0qX_BtOHlLRMic4IAw6E2Ake-Kfkw9z0yQmcKKKs5uJEtRNNECxhxVpM8e_0wC1jBuQ/w207-h160/Screenshot%202022-09-29%20at%2006.51.03.png" width="207" /></a></div>On 27 Sept 2022, <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
2292. Gerrits</a> and I had the opportunity to present on our Atlas of Social
2293. Complexity project for the RICH, <span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">the <a href="https://www.radboud-complexity.com/">Radboud Interfaculty Complexity Hub</a>.
2294. </span>The focus of our presentation was, <i>Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent
2295. Possible: Where Are We (Not) Headed?</i><p></p><p></p>It was a lot of fun and a really brilliant group of faculty and students.
2296. Thanks again to <span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcos-ross/">Marcos
2297. Ross</a>, <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/hitomi-shibata-094090219">Hitomi
2298. Shibata</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerraldrector/">Jerrald
2299. Rector</a> for organising the event, and to everyone</span><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="color: black;"> </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">for the excellent
2300. discussion, which helped us to develop our ideas further. In particular, we
2301. enjoyed the discussion on the need for vertical (multi-level) systems thinking (</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerraldrector/">Jerrald Rector</a></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">) and the importance
2302. of integrating complexity thinking into primary, secondary and university education
2303. (</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.ru.nl/en/people/korzilius-h">Hubert Korzilius</a>)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, as well as the
2304. possibility of developing a series of formalisms for systems thinking (</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.ru.nl/en/people/hasselman-f">Fred Hasselman</a>)</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhaKh9m0e_NA2X1s8iOtCZkdAiHmZxzSOZobwEGEdlshWmIbwrADitA2aVG9xo-ddhbvrE8nMJN3TaO3xHFJiHPXXXPhCo0umq_ygkWRbw5nKcN7EJe28gDcNFDSLwJIB0gS9N7jdknOQpvW7Tv-MSid4vvKh7io6lcAS80ghPzgSRhdUHo75-Z-gbw/s1912/Screenshot%202022-09-29%20at%2007.04.13.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1912" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhaKh9m0e_NA2X1s8iOtCZkdAiHmZxzSOZobwEGEdlshWmIbwrADitA2aVG9xo-ddhbvrE8nMJN3TaO3xHFJiHPXXXPhCo0umq_ygkWRbw5nKcN7EJe28gDcNFDSLwJIB0gS9N7jdknOQpvW7Tv-MSid4vvKh7io6lcAS80ghPzgSRhdUHo75-Z-gbw/s320/Screenshot%202022-09-29%20at%2007.04.13.png" width="320" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span></div><p></p><b><span style="color: #0c64c0; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Abstract: </span></b><p></p>
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2306. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The origin and development
2307. of the complexity sciences is well-documented. Once deemed a minority interest,
2308. the complexity sciences have been taken up in many fields such that some of its
2309. aspects have become adopted generally. The <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html" title="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html"><b><span style="color: #0563c1;">complexity map</span></b></a></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">, which
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2311. e.g., quants over qual, poor knowledge of social science – which presently have
2312. the study of complexity on a bit of a problematic course. Looking to the
2313. future, can these present challenges be addressed? If so, to what extent or in
2314. what ways? What do such near and distant future adjacent possibilities look
2315. like? Can we map them? Where is the frontier of the complexity sciences headed,
2316. or not headed? The purpose of this <i>highly
2317. interactive workshop</i> is to explore the future (the adjacent possible)
2318. of the complexity sciences, and for participants to have an active hand in
2319. shaping what that future map looks like.</span></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: #1000; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span>
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2378. {page:WordSection1;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;br class=&quot;Apple-interchange-newline&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/1322543013328420322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/mapping-complexitys-adjacent-possible.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/1322543013328420322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/1322543013328420322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/mapping-complexitys-adjacent-possible.html' title='Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent Possible: Where Are We (Not) Headed?'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYULZSE34_pdCnolBY6WUqd3cMTMn7yotPN7opnI3Cj_X_Msv3bm7FviOF7QOARIWijUSwQGZwAZWKeP12BvR7TmB9tjI0gwKdLRB4snyoNIFwltSj4EYlquh0qX_BtOHlLRMic4IAw6E2Ake-Kfkw9z0yQmcKKKs5uJEtRNNECxhxVpM8e_0wC1jBuQ/s72-w207-h160-c/Screenshot%202022-09-29%20at%2006.51.03.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-3652978381110640576</id><published>2022-09-21T19:09:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2022-09-22T08:23:21.685+01:00</updated><title type='text'>The psychology of complexity: a few notes from forthcoming Atlas of Social Complexity</title><content type='html'>
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2397. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My colleague,
2398. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lasse
2399. Gerrits</span></a> and I are working on the forthcoming <i>Atlas of Social
2400. Complexity</i>, to be published in Autumn 2023 with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Edward
2401. Elgar Publishing</span></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
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2403. <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAulrIfOpmJ1ZqtcA-yWirjmUvji9lw-soX_g91eCp84VExpTt0fH0JDj-oviUkMLkxAn4K2dwSK-JzQPV4utP3UBqQJKhIVAWeRLVXuc6pUiiAHUoPVaJTdrlDa9rcNOwiy8MdXpNVKsmSfx2fdrgNEYo3Tv0gHVJVr-GsWS1mIPc9SSgvFc41LVAPQ/s1632/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2018.51.27.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1632" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAulrIfOpmJ1ZqtcA-yWirjmUvji9lw-soX_g91eCp84VExpTt0fH0JDj-oviUkMLkxAn4K2dwSK-JzQPV4utP3UBqQJKhIVAWeRLVXuc6pUiiAHUoPVaJTdrlDa9rcNOwiy8MdXpNVKsmSfx2fdrgNEYo3Tv0gHVJVr-GsWS1mIPc9SSgvFc41LVAPQ/w400-h189/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2018.51.27.png" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The focus of
2404. the book is how <span style="color: black;">a global network of researchers,
2405. scholars, artists, social activists, policy makers, and civil servants have
2406. been working variously over the last decade to overcome to venture into new
2407. territories in the study of social complexity, creating entirely new fields of
2408. social science synthesis and advance, as well as inspiring the complexity
2409. imagination we presently need to address the significant global social problems
2410. we currently face.</span></span>
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2412. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Psychology of Complexity</span></span></h3><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyzGYtOZ_xIB1hFnHa1U2Svf9GS8Q0e2w8cj8ALjSAYXzcgQH9xf4mJRiWnFrB0rSBFTEi1DNiN821O6Ra1oawtIRWtVO9k35EnOo35Ul5hMUgRbBkheUUGjnj8qEC0SBn4V-YWQ5sj8MDFbRT7wfhMF4m61ny9dBKCQfHIQRukRFODQ-dQJ9tSOW9XA/s1330/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2019.00.21.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1330" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyzGYtOZ_xIB1hFnHa1U2Svf9GS8Q0e2w8cj8ALjSAYXzcgQH9xf4mJRiWnFrB0rSBFTEi1DNiN821O6Ra1oawtIRWtVO9k35EnOo35Ul5hMUgRbBkheUUGjnj8qEC0SBn4V-YWQ5sj8MDFbRT7wfhMF4m61ny9dBKCQfHIQRukRFODQ-dQJ9tSOW9XA/s320/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2019.00.21.png" width="320" /></a></div>In the process, one of the major sections of the book is on the
2413. progress being made in the study of key topics in psychology and the cognitive
2414. sciences, from cellular cognition and network immunology to the gut-brain axis
2415. and the emotional self to our embodied minds and the dynamical systems of human
2416. psychology.<p></p><p><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ISCIA Seminar Series: Grappling with Complexity, 2021 <br /></span></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQUN8uDn3hJ7pqu7Uwz8NG4Y6xXNJkkebaAOynBPOgv7LQzRiVT7xPwXEFKN0VlK86_kU3dHyQtNx674w8i5PwghpaK6-BiLjlpVTXBI5lvJSlZ-xm0EbttByLSwnsoGUdmmpVOj5wJkD00GteXKIj6Wbc__-luLRQR0QegGBidgH7XQ3L7HGC-5DUg/s2372/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2018.52.41.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="652" data-original-width="2372" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQUN8uDn3hJ7pqu7Uwz8NG4Y6xXNJkkebaAOynBPOgv7LQzRiVT7xPwXEFKN0VlK86_kU3dHyQtNx674w8i5PwghpaK6-BiLjlpVTXBI5lvJSlZ-xm0EbttByLSwnsoGUdmmpVOj5wJkD00GteXKIj6Wbc__-luLRQR0QegGBidgH7XQ3L7HGC-5DUg/w400-h110/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2018.52.41.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
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2418. <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I was kindly invited by <a href="https://research.mandela.ac.za/Research-Chairs/Chair-in-Identities-and-Social-Cohesion-in-Africa" target="_blank">Andrea Hurst</a> and colleagues to present my
2419. initial ideas on the topic for the <a href="https://isciachair.mandela.ac.za/Research/ISCIA-Seminar-Series-Grappling-with-Complexity,-2" target="_blank">ISCIA Seminar Series: Grappling withComplexity, 2021</a>, hosted by Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.</span>
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2421. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">While my ideas have certainly progressed since the presentation,
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2477. {page:WordSection1;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/3652978381110640576/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-psychology-of-complexity-few-notes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/3652978381110640576'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/3652978381110640576'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-psychology-of-complexity-few-notes.html' title='The psychology of complexity: a few notes from forthcoming Atlas of Social Complexity'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAulrIfOpmJ1ZqtcA-yWirjmUvji9lw-soX_g91eCp84VExpTt0fH0JDj-oviUkMLkxAn4K2dwSK-JzQPV4utP3UBqQJKhIVAWeRLVXuc6pUiiAHUoPVaJTdrlDa9rcNOwiy8MdXpNVKsmSfx2fdrgNEYo3Tv0gHVJVr-GsWS1mIPc9SSgvFc41LVAPQ/s72-w400-h189-c/Screenshot%202022-09-21%20at%2018.51.27.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-7239816470595383193</id><published>2022-09-14T09:49:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2022-09-14T15:26:46.268+01:00</updated><title type='text'> The emergence of SMART methods -- non-expert platforms for social science and health research </title><content type='html'>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT2JKSImG0BzbH8gwnHTip0M303-j_bH8FyegVcyE8Ie0NC7dhiN6J17a28YMY5HX0dIsHog8dKpx2X6f4iJkxEv2dJVNqNjk96MNQgLRGH9AwF05IA3J--endoX1BCqbP6_IUYJcLL7aVjMzyguv2NsJJ-rgkOp46a0U7xU0WlHSlzPv41MmStb6bA/s2172/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;656&quot; data-original-width=&quot;2172&quot; height=&quot;121&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT2JKSImG0BzbH8gwnHTip0M303-j_bH8FyegVcyE8Ie0NC7dhiN6J17a28YMY5HX0dIsHog8dKpx2X6f4iJkxEv2dJVNqNjk96MNQgLRGH9AwF05IA3J--endoX1BCqbP6_IUYJcLL7aVjMzyguv2NsJJ-rgkOp46a0U7xU0WlHSlzPv41MmStb6bA/w400-h121/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt;I would like to thank&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blogger.com/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: blue;&quot;&gt;Mark
2478. Elliot</span></a>, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Claire Spencer and the <a href="https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/MethodsCon/programme.php" target="_blank">MethodsCo</a>n team
2479. and the <a href="https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/MethodsCon/programme.php" target="_blank">National Centre for Research Methods</a> for the opportunity to run my session on <b> The emergence of SMART methods -- non-expert platforms for social science and health research.</b></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I presented on a <span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>new avenue of methods development </b></span>that my colleague <a href="https://engineering.buffalo.edu/engineering-education/people/directory/schimpf-corey.html" target="_blank">Corey Schimpf</a>
2480. (Department of Engineering Education, University at Buffalo) first
2481. identified, which he and I are calling smart and approachable methods or
2482. <b><i>AM-Smart </i></b>for short.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><b></b></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><b>PRESENTATION ABSTRACT </b></h3><p>Advances in the integration of smart technology with interdisciplinary methods has created a new genre, approachable modeling and smart methods – AM-Smart for short. AM-Smart platforms address a major challenge for applied and public sector analysts, educators and those trained in traditional methods: accessing the latest advances in interdisciplinary (particularly computational) methods. AM-Smart platforms do so through nine design features. They are (1) bespoke tools that (2) involve a single or small network of interrelated (mostly computational) methods. They also (3) embed distributed expertise, (4) scaffold methods use, (5) provide rapid and formative feedback, (6) leverage visual reasoning, (7) enable productive failure, and (8) promote user-driven inquiry; all while (9) counting as rigorous and reliable tools. Examples include R-shiny programmes, computational modeling and statistical apps, public-sector data management platforms, data visualisation tools, and smart phone apps. Critical reflection on AM-Smart platforms, however, reveals considerable unevenness in these design features, which hamper their effectiveness. A rigorous research agenda is vital. After situating the AM-Smart genre in its historical context and introducing a short list of platforms, we review the above nine features, including a use-case on how AM-Smart platforms ideally work. We end with a research agenda for advancing the AM-Smart genre.</p><p>
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2500. <div style="language: en-GB; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.31in; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The goal is to </span></div>
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2511. <div style="language: en-GB; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.31in; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Explore possible</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">collaborations or venues for future research</span></div><div style="language: en-GB; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.31in; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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2517. <h3 style="text-align: left;"> LINKAGES</h3><p><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AmSmart%20MethodsCon.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a>for the PDF of the Power Point<br /></p><p><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2022.2111817" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for the paper ON AM-Smart Methods (Open Access)<br /></p><p><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to explore COMPLEX-IT and its software, tutorials, etc.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for a published article on COMPLEX-IT </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/big-data-mining-and-complexity/book257490" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for Big Data Mining and Complexity</span></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>------------ <br /></b></span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #783f04; font-size: large;"><b>Much thanks to those who participated in the event. </b></span></h4><p><span style="color: #783f04;"><b>Here are the questions we came up with as a function of the workshop discussions:</b></span></p><p>
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2552. conventional methods without being as critical of AM-Smart method. Are they </span><span style="language: en-GB;">actually learning</span><span style="language: en-GB;">
2553. what we want them to learn?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
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2569. &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #38761d;&quot;&gt;One of the outcomes of the workshop was the value of figuring out how to add qualitative information to the clustering or classification methods regularly used in many AM-Smart methods.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #38761d;&quot;&gt;Another was how to integrate, via smart design, qualitative and quantitative information to evidence both aspects of corroboration of insights as well as gaps in understanding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/7239816470595383193/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-emergence-of-smart-methods-non.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/7239816470595383193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/7239816470595383193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-emergence-of-smart-methods-non.html' title=' The emergence of SMART methods -- non-expert platforms for social science and health research '/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT2JKSImG0BzbH8gwnHTip0M303-j_bH8FyegVcyE8Ie0NC7dhiN6J17a28YMY5HX0dIsHog8dKpx2X6f4iJkxEv2dJVNqNjk96MNQgLRGH9AwF05IA3J--endoX1BCqbP6_IUYJcLL7aVjMzyguv2NsJJ-rgkOp46a0U7xU0WlHSlzPv41MmStb6bA/s72-w400-h121-c/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-2233216850195988121</id><published>2022-09-13T12:47:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2022-09-13T12:47:09.692+01:00</updated><title type='text'>COMPLEX-IT for rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research (MethodsCon University of Manchester)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;
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2588. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-gzzWP4Q2MRSUellnc40mKG91-hLtZVu4ILiFxITwZaP5hJRaHyXGbP14y_FSAI1ZFZFf2VmqLMcttEpvMDBRyxdD5qVZ_Nk4v7v0GGShnV-o-82XKImmvvj_4VKenzh3isePw49jVwada47FDCHvuCgW_5Ten39wxrxjuN7j_BWkJxuUCrU53ujEA/s2172/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="2172" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-gzzWP4Q2MRSUellnc40mKG91-hLtZVu4ILiFxITwZaP5hJRaHyXGbP14y_FSAI1ZFZFf2VmqLMcttEpvMDBRyxdD5qVZ_Nk4v7v0GGShnV-o-82XKImmvvj_4VKenzh3isePw49jVwada47FDCHvuCgW_5Ten39wxrxjuN7j_BWkJxuUCrU53ujEA/w400-h121/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png" width="400" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I would like to thank</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Mark
2589. Elliot</span></a>, </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Claire Spencer and the <a href="https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/MethodsCon/programme.php" target="_blank">MethodsCo</a>n team
2590. and the <a href="https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/MethodsCon/programme.php" target="_blank">National Centre for Research Methods</a> for the opportunity to run my session on <b>COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and
2591. Scenario Simulation Platform for Health Research</b>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">PURPOSE OF SESSION</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: #4472c4; font-family: Abadi,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;">Attendees will learn how to use <span class="marki43ad9tva" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">COMPLEX-IT</span>,
2592. which is a free online R-Studio suite of computational social science
2593. techniques for classification, scenario simulation, and prediction. <span class="marki43ad9tva" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">COMPLEX-IT</span>
2594. was created for users who are non-experts in these techniques,
2595. including cluster analysis, topographical neural nets, agent-based
2596. modelling, micro-simulation, data visualisation, and
2597. prediction/forecasting methods. Using a small public health dataset,
2598. this session will introduce attendees to <span class="marki43ad9tva" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">COMPLEX-IT</span> (and its online resources and tutorials) sufficient for them to leave the session able to use this method on their own.</span> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MethodsConCOMPLEXIT.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for the PowerPoint of the presentation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to explore COMPLEX-IT and its software, tutorials, etc.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for a published article on COMPLEX-IT </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/big-data-mining-and-complexity/book257490" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for Big Data Mining and Complexity<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span><a href="https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-sage-handbook-of-case-based-methods/book230470" target="_blank">CLICK HERE </a>for the Sage Handbook of Case-Based Methods </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p>
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2645. {page:WordSection1;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/2233216850195988121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/complex-it-for-rethinking-boundaries-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/2233216850195988121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/2233216850195988121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/09/complex-it-for-rethinking-boundaries-of.html' title='COMPLEX-IT for rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research (MethodsCon University of Manchester)'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8-gzzWP4Q2MRSUellnc40mKG91-hLtZVu4ILiFxITwZaP5hJRaHyXGbP14y_FSAI1ZFZFf2VmqLMcttEpvMDBRyxdD5qVZ_Nk4v7v0GGShnV-o-82XKImmvvj_4VKenzh3isePw49jVwada47FDCHvuCgW_5Ten39wxrxjuN7j_BWkJxuUCrU53ujEA/s72-w400-h121-c/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-5972071447612548834</id><published>2022-03-08T11:52:00.007+00:00</published><updated>2022-06-13T09:55:56.845+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I would like to thank &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pdx.edu/systems-science/dr-wayne-wakeland&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Wayne Wakeland &lt;/a&gt;and his colleagues in the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.pdx.edu/systems-science/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;systems science program&lt;/a&gt; at Portland State University for the chance to present at their &lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Ui5s2lwYQLHTrgubMtK43CMk0QFKYruy3fWnJTRVX4/edit#gid=0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;noon systems science and complexity seminar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I presented on a &lt;span style=&quot;color: #ff00fe;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;new avenue of methods development &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;that my colleague &lt;a href=&quot;https://engineering.buffalo.edu/engineering-education/people/directory/schimpf-corey.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Corey Schimpf&lt;/a&gt; (Department of Engineering Education, University at Buffalo) first identified, which he and I are calling smart and approachable methods or &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;AM-Smart &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;for short.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My presentation was a quick summary of a paper on the topic we have in review and its application to policy evaluation. In particular, I focused on our computational modelling software, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;COMPLEX-IT&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #0b5394;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;HERE IS A QUICK SUMMARY OF MY PRESENTATION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px none; caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: &amp;quot;Segoe UI&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Segoe UI&amp;quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #bf9000;&quot;&gt;TITLE: Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px none; caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: #201f1e; font-family: &amp;quot;Segoe UI&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Segoe UI Web (West European)&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Segoe UI&amp;quot;, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ABSTRACT: &lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;Advances in the integration of smart technology, computational modelling and statistical platforms has created a new methods environment, approachable modelling and smart methods – AM-Smart for short. The AM-Smart environment consists of bespoke tools that facilitate user-driven learning of a topic, creating an intuitive, supported but open-ended environment designed to solve specific tasks. Unlike most statistical platforms, AM-Smart methods focus on a single technique or small network of closely interrelated methods (mostly computational in focus), which help users to simultaneously use and learn new methods. They do so by providing scaffolding while allowing for user-exploration, rapid and formative feedback and by requiring modest technical skill, while still being rigorous, authentic, and reliable. A major focus of AM-Smart methods is policy evaluation, as demonstrated in participatory systems mapping tools, complex evaluation toolkits, and R shiny programmes and fast ABM modelling. &lt;span style=&quot;color: #e69138;&quot;&gt;For this talk, I will introduce the world of AM-Smart methods and their value for policy evaluation. I will specifically introduce a package we have developed called COMPLEX-IT.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #6aa84f;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;LINKS &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/Am%20Smart%20Methods.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Here is the LINK&lt;/a&gt; to the PowerPoint of my presentation. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;ul style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://media.pdx.edu/media/t/1_yjap0fqa/161380472&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Here is the LINK&lt;/a&gt; to a video of my presentation.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Examples of AM-Smart methods are as follows:&lt;p&gt;
2646.  
2647.  
2648.  
2649.  
2650.  
2651.  
2652.  
2653.  
2654.  
2655.  
2656.  
2657.  
2658.  
2659.  
2660.  
2661.  
2662.  
2663.  
2664. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">COMPLEX-IT</a>, a computational modelling
2665. environment for case-based modelling and policy evaluation for non-experts.</span></p>
2666.  
2667. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2668.  
2669. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">SOMbrero</a> for artificial intelligence </span></p>
2670.  
2671. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2672.  
2673. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">PRSM</a> for participatory systems mapping</span></p>
2674.  
2675. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2676.  
2677. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">SAGEMODELER</a> for learning systems dynamics
2678. through designing models</span></p>
2679.  
2680. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2681.  
2682. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">FactoShiny</a> for statistical analysis and
2683. visualization </span></p>
2684.  
2685. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2686.  
2687. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Occam</a>, a Discrete Multivariate Modeling
2688. (DMM) tool based on the methodology of Reconstructability Analysis (RA).</span></p>
2689.  
2690. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2691.  
2692. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">COMPASS</a> for comparative methods software </span></p>
2693.  
2694. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2695.  
2696. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">NetLogo Web</a> for agent-based models</span></p>
2697.  
2698. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2699.  
2700. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">MAIA</a> for designing multiagent models for
2701. institutional analysis</span></p>
2702.  
2703. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2704.  
2705. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Cytoscape</a> for modeling complex networks</span></p>
2706.  
2707. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2708.  
2709. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Several
2710. platforms that meet many of the AM-smart attributes but may be less
2711. representative on a few attributes including </span></p>
2712.  
2713. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
2714.  
2715. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">IQAir</a>, the world's largest real-time,
2716. air-quality information platform, including a suite of tools – IQAir Earth,
2717. Map, App and AirVisual</span></p>
2718.  
2719. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
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2721. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">UK CDRC Mapmaker</a>, including indices of
2722. multiple deprivation</span></p>
2723.  
2724. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></p>
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2726. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Gapminder</a> for exploring global trends
2727. statistically and visually</span></p>
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2784. {page:WordSection1;}&lt;/style&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/5972071447612548834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/03/smart-methods-for-complex-policy.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/5972071447612548834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/5972071447612548834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/03/smart-methods-for-complex-policy.html' title='Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation'/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-6504278355042997150</id><published>2022-02-15T10:19:00.004+00:00</published><updated>2022-02-15T10:35:26.258+00:00</updated><title type='text'>Health Policy Evaluation: A complex systems perspective </title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;
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2804. opportunity to present at the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pragmatic-evaluation-of-systems-approaches-in-public-health-sen-3-tickets-245628299857" target="_blank">third Systems Evaluation Network</a> meeting for the 28th
2805. of January 1-3pm. The focus of this session was “the process
2806. for planning an evaluation of a complex systems approach”.</span></p>
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2808. <p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdzpPB0wpl8mXBLjb7hts2o0kOCcbbU8lrnS6bUthChQkek10A-z7MKiZLiThOaPLcOAbrDtEHbr0d5i24BJUm-o2qGC_c6W2FOXZeywfFwlUu3cJz_Bxkk369Tc8_3fJDqmhVzXIYsmwlft22jnuZbAaYn7dI-GPfxXxnQ1tpT-nDytGpbNDPasJbDw=s463" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="306" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgdzpPB0wpl8mXBLjb7hts2o0kOCcbbU8lrnS6bUthChQkek10A-z7MKiZLiThOaPLcOAbrDtEHbr0d5i24BJUm-o2qGC_c6W2FOXZeywfFwlUu3cJz_Bxkk369Tc8_3fJDqmhVzXIYsmwlft22jnuZbAaYn7dI-GPfxXxnQ1tpT-nDytGpbNDPasJbDw=s320" width="211" /></a><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span><br /><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div><p></p><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
2809. overview of our presentation included the following – which you can click on to
2810. get further information. <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/ComplexPolicyCECAN.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE for a PDF of our presentation</a>.<br /></span></p><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
2811.  
2812. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
2813.  
2814. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/" target="_blank">What is CECAN</a> (The Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus)<br /></span></p>
2815.  
2816. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What is a
2817. complex systems approach to evaluation?</span></p>
2818.  
2819. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What is the
2820. role of methods?</span></p>
2821.  
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2823. examples:</span></p>
2824.  
2825. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><a href="https://prsm.uk/" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">PRSM participatorysystems mapper</span></a></p>
2826.  
2827. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">COMPLEX-IT</span></a></p>
2828.  
2829. <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">•<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span></span><a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/resources/toolkits/" target="_blank"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ComplexEvaluation Toolkit</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">*    <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-09734-3" target="_blank">Place and Health as Complex Systems</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 72pt; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 72.0pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">*    <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html" target="_blank">Map of the complexity sciences </a> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 12.48pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 12.48pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 12.48pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p>
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2879. {margin-bottom:0cm;}&lt;/style&gt;&lt;span face=&quot;Calibri, sans-serif&quot; style=&quot;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: #201f1e; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/feeds/6504278355042997150/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/02/health-policy-evaluation-complex.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/6504278355042997150'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3344012822794591839/posts/default/6504278355042997150'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2022/02/health-policy-evaluation-complex.html' title='Health Policy Evaluation: A complex systems perspective '/><author><name>Brian Castellani</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3WEXz45rS7rqqxZtVavINkxdBarmJnAeR1r5V0PZ7_u3VXQQqarSAx3rupC5rjk6VyFh1oC3ZQzILKa-ft7NVL-cQEcZukcMyWrX1E1aOMBdj5ypkZ6EKJ7ZAJri0MEE3hlEVgMpvhUj1ijvzc443c4bqdebYrcprh3IdbZ87YFwD3ihZgHh98OQ4AA=s72-c" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-5923480351858890559</id><published>2021-09-15T10:53:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2022-08-28T09:38:11.589+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Q &amp; A for the 2021 version of the map of the complexity sciences</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9-dbS6KxoeCUjDShpSKg1JBKDCgR9YY5WxNYCqSRizCDe1pbBawO6VR5Z8Nr4pFQSIxplZ0fwN-UOdeZAiyr2mDy3-kVlmOvDPUNXQBn5Nwa9-zVj1ov6dmNyh9KaYIzNlckseaD08yD/s1200/MAP2021.jpg&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;&quot;&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;675&quot; data-original-width=&quot;1200&quot; height=&quot;225&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9-dbS6KxoeCUjDShpSKg1JBKDCgR9YY5WxNYCqSRizCDe1pbBawO6VR5Z8Nr4pFQSIxplZ0fwN-UOdeZAiyr2mDy3-kVlmOvDPUNXQBn5Nwa9-zVj1ov6dmNyh9KaYIzNlckseaD08yD/w400-h225/MAP2021.jpg&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;As each new version of the map of the complexity sciences is released, there are questions regularly asked of us. Social media is not the best place for having such discussions -- particularly when people get mean or aggressive or do not actually take the time to read the Map Legend or explore things before commenting. Also, even when there are great questions asked, others may miss our response. We therefore thought it usefult to try and answer the questions typically posed to us on social media or email.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE VERSION OF MAP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MapLegend.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;CLICK HERE FOR PDF OR JPEG OF MAP&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;h2 style=&quot;text-align: left;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #ffa400;&quot;&gt;Q&amp;amp;A FOR THE MAP OF THE COMPLEXITY SCIENCES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;
2880.  
2881.  
2882.  
2883.  
2884.  
2885.  
2886.  
2887.  
2888.  
2889.  
2890.  
2891.  
2892.  
2893.  
2894.  
2895.  
2896.  
2897.  
2898.  
2899. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>What is this
2900. map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2901.  
2902. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This map is an
2903. introduction to the complexity sciences – from physics and biology to sociology
2904. and psychology to computational modelling and policy evaluation. We purposely
2905. use the term ‘sciences’ in the plural because there is no one complexity
2906. science and no one boundary around it. The map was created as an educational
2907. tool. It is to be treated as an introduction, not an in-depth investigation
2908. into the field. Experts in the field will also find the map useful for
2909. exploring new areas and for teaching.</p>
2910.  
2911. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
2912.  
2913. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>What about the
2914. Arts and Humanities?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2915.  
2916. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfortunately, we
2917. cannot address the Humanities or Arts as the map would become unwieldy. Complex
2918. systems thinking, fractals, chaos theory and other areas of investigation have
2919. been used in the arts; and the Humanities have added key insights, for example,
2920. Buddhist meditation, deep ecology, fractal architecture, urban design, and
2921. assemblage art. </p>
2922.  
2923. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
2924.  
2925. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Is the map
2926. historical? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2927.  
2928. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is roughly
2929. historical. The five lineages, running from left to right, are based on Fritjof
2930. <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Capra’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Life-Understanding-Living-Systems/dp/0385476760"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The web of life: A
2931. new synthesis of mind and matter</span></i></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> (1996), which organises the field into: (1)
2932. dynamical systems theory and complexity in mathematics (<span style="color: #7030a0;">purple</span>), (2) systems thinking/systems science (<span style="color: #00b0f0;">blue</span>), (3) the core concepts of complexity (<b><span style="color: #fff000;">yellow</span></b>), (4) cybernetics (<span style="color: #aeaaaa; mso-themecolor: background2; mso-themeshade: 191;">grey</span>),
2933. and (5) artificial intelligence/methods (<span style="color: #ffc000; mso-themecolor: accent4;">orange</span>). While not perfect, we’ve kept this basic framework as
2934. it provides a nice skeleton on which to assemble the map. </span></p>
2935.  
2936. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
2937.  
2938. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How should the
2939. map be read? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2940.  
2941. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It should be read
2942. left to right, moving from the early 1900s to the present. Topics are placed
2943. approximately at the point when they became a major area of study. For each
2944. topic, we have provided a handful of top scholars, including, when possible,
2945. the individual or team that was instrumental in advancing the topic. </p>
2946.  
2947. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
2948.  
2949. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How was the
2950. map compiled? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2951.  
2952. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Between the two
2953. of us, the map represents over forty years of combined research and reading, as
2954. well as in-depth discussions with colleagues across the various fields and
2955. around the world. Castellani launched the first version of the map in 2009.
2956. Since then, it has been revised every several years, as the field has massively
2957. expanded over the last decade.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span>The current version, which is an update on the 2018 map, is rooted
2958. in our fellowship at the <a href="https://ias.uva.nl/" target="_blank">Institute for Advanced Study of the University ofAmsterdam.</a></p>
2959.  
2960. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
2961.  
2962. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Why didn’t you
2963. use a bibliometric analysis to make the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2964.  
2965. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bibliometric
2966. analyses are all the rage, and they can be powerful tools. There are a couple
2967. of reasons why we don’t use those tools. First, bibliographic analyses struggle
2968. to construct a history of a topic. They are better at providing cross-sectional
2969. snapshots. For a good overview, see </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thomas, J., & Zaytseva, A. (2016). </span><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cplx.21799"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mapping
2970. complexity/Human knowledge as a complex adaptive system</span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">. <i>Complexity</i>,
2971. <i>21</i>(S2), 207-234.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>Second, those tools depend heavily on articles
2972. (as opposed to books), recognised journals (which is an issue, as many
2973. complexity works are often in obscure journals or blogs, etc) and sources that
2974. are online as opposed to libraries, archives, conference letters, and so forth.
2975. They also do not capture historical impact beyond citations. Third, there is
2976. range of more minor technical problems that make us unsure if those tools can
2977. do a better job than we did manually. </p>
2978.  
2979. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
2980.  
2981. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Is this map
2982. complete? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2983.  
2984. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The map is not
2985. complete, and was not designed to be – in fact, we are not sure what would even
2986. entail. The complexity sciences represent a loose (but connected) and quickly
2987. evolving body of knowledge that intersects with almost every field in the
2988. sciences and the social sciences. A map created in 2019 will not look like a
2989. map in 2020. We focus on providing a reasonably comprehensive introduction to
2990. the field. The nice thing about the online version is that, by clicking on the
2991. links, users are taken into even more in-depth reviews that link to an even
2992. wider range of information. </p>
2993.  
2994. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
2995.  
2996. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How about
2997. diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and nationality?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
2998.  
2999. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We made a
3000. concerted effort to make sure the map highlighted the work of a wide variety of
3001. scholars around the world and up-and-coming researchers. We also sought gender
3002. and stage of career balance as well as ethnicity and nationality. We will continue to
3003. advance the work of everyone we can.</p>
3004.  
3005. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3006.  
3007. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Why is author
3008. x not on the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3009.  
3010. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We often receive
3011. questions about why a certain author is not on the map. Sometimes the scholar
3012. is missing because of the limitations in our knowledge. Most of the time it is
3013. because the map is an educational tool, and of limited size and space, and can
3014. only include so many people. </p>
3015.  
3016. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3017.  
3018. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Could you
3019. please include author x on the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3020.  
3021. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfortunately, we
3022. are unable to fulfil such requests. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span></p>
3023.  
3024. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3025.  
3026. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Could you
3027. please include <i>me</i> on the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3028.  
3029. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfortunately, we
3030. are unable to fulfil such requests. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span></p>
3031.  
3032. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3033.  
3034. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>I know how to
3035. improve the map.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3036.  
3037. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We invite
3038. everyone who believes that our map needs to be improved to make an
3039. alternative one themselves. We are looking forward to such initiatives. </p>
3040.  
3041. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3042.  
3043. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>This is not a
3044. good map / I don’t like your map / Your understanding of the field is incorrect.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3045.  
3046. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As stated above,
3047. we are looking forward to alternatives. In the meantime, in the brave new world
3048. of social media, it is easy to be cruel. Please do not be mean.</p>
3049.  
3050. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3051.  
3052. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Can I use your
3053. map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3054.  
3055. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">You can always
3056. use the map if you attribute correctly with this reference:</p>
3057.  
3058. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u>Castellani, B
3059. and Gerrits, L (2021). Map of the complexity sciences. Art and Science Factory,
3060. LLC. </u></span></p>
3061.  
3062. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">While we
3063. encourage sharing of the map, we want to point out that the map may not be used
3064. for commercial purposes and / or without proper attribution. </p>
3065.  
3066. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3067.  
3068. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MapLegend.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>CLICK HERE </b></span></a>for
3069. downloads of the map as a jpg and pdf, which are located on the Map Legend
3070. page.</p>
3071.  
3072. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3073.  
3074.  
3075.  
3076. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3077.  
3078. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Under what
3079. license is the map released? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3080.  
3081. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The map is
3082. licensed on Wikipedia under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons" title="w:en:Creative Commons">Creative Commons</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en">Attribution-Share
3083. Alike 4.0 International</a> license. </p>
3084.  
3085. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3086.  
3087. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Will you
3088. continue to update the map?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3089.  
3090. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Yes, we plan to
3091. update the map regularly, as was done since the original version from 2009.</p>
3092.  
3093. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3094.  
3095. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How do you
3096. know what is complexity and what is not? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3097.  
3098. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As others have
3099. said before us, and we agree with, the complexity sciences are not defined by
3100. clear boundaries. It is a sprawling and growing group of theories, methods,
3101. findings, and big and small ideas, that permeates in almost every field
3102. imaginable. The boundaries between what is about complexity and what is not are
3103. amorphous. </p>
3104.  
3105. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3106.  
3107. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The map is
3108. skewered / biased towards…</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3109.  
3110. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Bias is real. For
3111. starters, we can only cover English / German / Dutch / French between us, as such we may
3112. overlook work published in other languages. There is also the fact that
3113. map-making is somewhat path-dependent, where those who are said to have made an
3114. impact may remain to be designated as such. Above all, it can be hard to trace
3115. the origin of ideas, especially going further back in time. It may very well be
3116. that someone took an idea from someone else without proper attribution. Sadly,
3117. some labs or research groups tended to build on the work of PhD’s and postdocs
3118. without giving much credit to their work. This continues to be an issue until
3119. this very day. We’ve tried our best to present a balanced overview of the people
3120. who have driven the study of complexity, and those who continue to do so. </p>
3121.  
3122. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
3123.  
3124. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>I don’t think
3125. that all the names on the map are the big names…</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
3126.  
3127. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This is correct. We
3128. purposely include names of upcoming scholars that we find worth following as
3129. they push the field into interesting directions. Map-making is not only about
3130. charting the terrain just crossed but also an attempt to charter the unknown
3131. terrains. That is why we include scholars that we believe have something novel
3132. to say. </p>
3133.  
3134. <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
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