Guest post: Announcing World Makers
The goal of World Makers is to encourage people to build computer simulations of the world. This includes simulating water, weather, crops, land use policy or anything else. Models can be regional or global,...
Category: Complex Systems
Beyond Data (part 2): Big-O snowballs, copycats, and super levers
As computer scientists, one of our first lessons is about “big O” complexity of software. It’s used to understand the expected time for a program to run. “Big O” theory tells us that it’s...
Beyond Data (part 1): J. K. Rowling, Shakespeare, and the Sorcerer’s Decision
I rode the train on a beautiful spring day through New England. Arriving at the station, a few guys from our partner company greeted me happily; we were going to win this one. We...
Decision lever visualization: an animated review
Since thinking so much about levers in the last two posts, I’ve also been pondering the variety of levers I’ve built and seen, and the different purposes they serve in a decision model. ...
Catch the ball: shifting from text to visual/motor thinking for complex problems
We are shifting our thinking style to accommodate a much more complex and interdependent world than we have faced in the past. Consider: In 2014, Google purchased Deep Mind, formerly a UK-based startup with...
