tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33440128227945918392024-03-18T19:56:21.274+00:00Sociology and Complexity Science BlogBrian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-24335625269908538622024-02-12T11:22:00.008+00:002024-02-12T11:30:17.130+00:00COMPLEX-IT: A User-friendly platform for Combining QCA and Case-based Computational Modelling<p style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
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>,
a book we recently completed, which will be launched spring 2024. Organised
around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an
invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and
students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity.
It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social
complexity. <br /></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One area of significant promise
is the emergence of configurational social science (Chapter 20 and Chapter 30),
which sits at the nexus of case-based configurational approaches – specifically
QCA – intersectionality theory, critical complexity, and complex systems
thinking. </span><p style="text-align: left;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><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><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: 11pt;"><b></b></span></h3><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: 11pt;"><b>QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR PRESENTATION</b></span><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></h3>
<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
computational methods are case-based and configurational e.g., online websites
profiling users based on some configuration of factors. The challenge is making
these methods accessible to social scientists, including qualitative
researchers. Enter COMPLEX-IT, a freely available platform for users to explore
data using a bespoke suite of computational methods: cluster analysis, machine
learning, data visualisation, simulation, data forecasting and systems mapping.
A key strength of COMPLEX-IT is that is works with set theoretic data so that
users can explore their topic and its causality from a qualitative-comparative
perspective (QCA), including modelling set-theoretic data across time. In this lecture, we introduce the field of
configurative social science, the multi-methods involved in this approach and
their linkages to QCA, and then, as demonstration, a case study to explore how
COMPLEX-IT, a platform for multi-methods configurational research, can be used
to engage in a QCA approach using the latest developments in computational
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;">
</blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 11pt;">HERE ARE
LINKS TO MATERIALS FROM OUR PRESENTATION</span></b></h3>
<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>
<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>
<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
dataset. </span></b></span></p>
<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
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.
U., & Knieling, F. (2023). Tracing complex urban transformations in
Germany, Switzerland and Austria using trajectory-based qualitative
comparative analysis (TJ-QCA). <i>Cities</i>, <i>141</i>, 104507.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MockDataSet.csv" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CLICK HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for the mock QCA Urban Transformation Datase </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MockDataSet%20PREDICT.csv" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for the mock DATA FORECASTING QCA Urban Transformation Datase <br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-75803780706749627812023-12-12T16:03:00.009+00:002023-12-13T13:25:40.617+00:00COMPLEX-IT: A User-friendly platform for doing QCA with computational methods<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="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" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="1616" height="82" src="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" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
Gerrits</a> and I would like to thank the organisers for the opportunity to
present at the <a href="https://compasss.org/intlqca/">11th International QCA
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>,
a book we recently completed, which will be launched spring 2024. Organised
around six transdisciplinary themes and twenty-four topics the Atlas is an
invaluable resource for all social science and complexity science scholars and
students interested in new ideas and new ways of working in social complexity.
It paves the way for the next generation of research in the study of social
complexity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></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;">One area of significant promise
is the emergence of configurational social science (Chapter 20 and Chapter 30),
which sits at the nexus of case-based configurational approaches – specifically
QCA – intersectionality theory, critical complexity, and complex systems
thinking. </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<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><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: 11pt;"><b>QUICK OVERVIEW OF OUR PRESENTATION</b></span><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></h3>
<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
computational methods are case-based and configurational e.g., online websites
profiling users based on some configuration of factors. The challenge is making
these methods accessible to social scientists, including qualitative
researchers. Enter COMPLEX-IT, a freely available platform for users to explore
data using a bespoke suite of computational methods: cluster analysis, machine
learning, data visualisation, simulation, data forecasting and systems mapping.
A key strength of COMPLEX-IT is that is works with set theoretic data so that
users can explore their topic and its causality from a qualitative-comparative
perspective (QCA), including modelling set-theoretic data across time. </span></p>
<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>
<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
configurative social science, the multi-methods involved in this approach and
their linkages to QCA, and then, as demonstration, a case study to explore how
COMPLEX-IT, a platform for multi-methods configurational research, can be used
to engage in a QCA approach using the latest developments in computational
methods. </span></p>
</blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-size: 11pt;">HERE ARE
LINKS TO MATERIALS FROM OUR PRESENTATION</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></h3><h3 class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></h3>
<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>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><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
dataset. </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p>
<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
on COMPLEX-IT</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MockDataSet.csv" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CLICK HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for the mock QCA Urban Transformation Datase </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MockDataSet%20PREDICT.csv" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for the mock DATA FORECASTING QCA Urban Transformation Datase <br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p><style>@font-face
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-73318364953431061602023-10-11T10:12:00.005+01:002023-10-20T09:38:04.593+01:00Using ChatGPT for Advanced Data Analysis - An example of the field of AM-Smart methods (approachable modelling and smart methods)<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;">As some
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
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
short. <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2022.2111817" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for an open access copy of the article at IJSRM.</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><h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What are AM-Smart methods?</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a0FNQDauJ5GKQ90CTwXOwAjTwZcNZ8SReg69vQuV6R-VZoy-Ld0MqDqoF6gwJZxlhCquRZXnqOkL7Kso23MQ4GOXgMLW80Kta-CxYBUHKyq5mSlraIaWivu5QHZvbSqHxT0BUJBdVVpfyefS3szyWUNiS4KTW6sY_foNIDwRANOqwE8-p16Pea8_hJNS/s715/Screenshot%202023-10-11%20at%2009.49.09.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="665" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3a0FNQDauJ5GKQ90CTwXOwAjTwZcNZ8SReg69vQuV6R-VZoy-Ld0MqDqoF6gwJZxlhCquRZXnqOkL7Kso23MQ4GOXgMLW80Kta-CxYBUHKyq5mSlraIaWivu5QHZvbSqHxT0BUJBdVVpfyefS3szyWUNiS4KTW6sY_foNIDwRANOqwE8-p16Pea8_hJNS/w264-h284/Screenshot%202023-10-11%20at%2009.49.09.png" width="264" /></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;">AM-Smart
methods emerged over the last several years out of the intersection of smart technology, human-computer
interface, educational design and interdisciplinary methods. 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. </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;"> </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;">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. </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;">Examples
include R-shiny programs, computational modeling and statistical apps,
public-sector data management platforms, data visualization tools, and smart
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>
<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>
<h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What about ChatGPT for advanced data analysis?</span></h2>
<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
not thought about was that advances such as ChatGPT also constituted a form of
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
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
the workshop:<span style="color: #ff8141;"></span></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" style="margin-left: 36pt;">This 2-day workshop teaches
researchers, from PhD students to professors, how to use ChatGPT and its
Advanced Data Analytics tool for statistical analysis without writing a line of
code or even knowing how to use a statistics program. The seminar covers a
range of topics from data preparation and descriptive statistics to regression
analysis, advanced statistical tests and visualisation. Special emphasis is
placed on understanding the workings and limits of AI models such as ChatGPT
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>
<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;">In addition
to the description of the workshop, what caught my eye was the instats description
of Gruber’s work around teaching methods. </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" style="margin-left: 36pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Dr Gruber has been an early adopter of Large Language Models for
teaching and research and leads the efforts of USI to integrate LLMs into the
curriculum. He has been teaching statistics, financial econometrics and
numerical methods with MATLAB, Python and R since 2005 at USI, University of
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>
<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>
<h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">This is not the only workshop!!!</span></h2>
<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
more, I started exploring on Google if other such workshops or courses were
being offered. They are being offered! Lots of them. A whole new field of study and pedagogy
seems to have emerged over night! Digital sociology and data science have a lot
to think about!</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;"><b><i>Which led
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>
<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>
<h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What is ChatGPT for advanced data analysis?</span></h2>
<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
can understand is that in August 2023, ChatGPT recently launched a new business
version called <a href="https://openai.com/enterprise" target="_blank">ChatGPT Enterprise</a>. Part
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
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
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>
<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>
<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>
<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
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
features, which hamper their effectiveness. </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"><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
research agenda is vital. </span></b></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;">A case in
point is ChatGPT Advanced Data Analysis.</span></p>
<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,
it is not clear if it will not stay that way for long. This is potentially a major issue and goes
against the open-access environment of current science and programming
platforms such as R.</span></p>
<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
suite of methods. It is unclear what sorts of algorithms are used in the background
to do the work. What are the limits of these methods?</span></p>
<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
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
how it can be used. I am sure these issues will be addressed going forward, but
presently the plug-in seems to be very much at the ground level.</span></p>
<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
learning curve to using it, including getting the plug-in to work.</span></p>
<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
data safety and access globally! </span></p>
<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>
<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
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
increasingly worried about students not learning the math behind the methods
they use, in the case of numerical analysis, and, in turn, the craft of qualitative
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>
<h2><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Conclusion?</span></h2>
<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
conclusion is that ChatGPT is a good example of AM-Smart methods but comes with
lots of concerns that require the methods community to engage with it before endorsing
it. </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;">I do not
make this point nonchalantly, as these sorts of smart tools are not the
necessary future of methods. There is no inevitability here. Instead, there is
lots of room for creative but critical interrogation and development, both for educational purposes and for
the wider usage of methods in research, policy and practice. </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><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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{margin-bottom:0cm;}</style></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-65675595262879359092023-10-04T10:54:00.006+01:002023-10-04T10:55:10.434+01:00Actearly Methods Club: The COMPLEX-IT Platform and Smart Methods at University of York<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal">Much thanks to <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/people/philip-garnett/">Philip
Garnett</a> and <a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/our-staff/liina-mansukoski/">Liina
Mansukoski</a> for the chance to present at the <a href="https://actearly.org.uk/">ActEarly</a> Methods Club at University of
York. (ActEarly focusses on early life changes to improve the
health and opportunities for children living in areas with high levels of child
poverty; Bradford, West Yorkshire and Tower Hamlets, London.)</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU0_DS50oZZB42DXLrv0qX6J-8GJeBp-qWh6c1CXE4cnGd18BhfKIRDPHGXgPP7-HcXmAlogdnjs9dJEanwpexkdV_GuQF1sGLBfxQtceja2eB7-DW20FlL6iRJ4xTLvqMwIVgcWsNQxk8XxyIHrqsxx5r5hTfReW_c0jIozP0c73nGju4F_6h2JnstUlZ/s1982/Screenshot%202023-10-04%20at%2010.53.43.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="1982" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU0_DS50oZZB42DXLrv0qX6J-8GJeBp-qWh6c1CXE4cnGd18BhfKIRDPHGXgPP7-HcXmAlogdnjs9dJEanwpexkdV_GuQF1sGLBfxQtceja2eB7-DW20FlL6iRJ4xTLvqMwIVgcWsNQxk8XxyIHrqsxx5r5hTfReW_c0jIozP0c73nGju4F_6h2JnstUlZ/w400-h238/Screenshot%202023-10-04%20at%2010.53.43.png" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> The COMPLEX-IT Platform and
the New Field of Approachable Modelling and Smart Methods </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #7030a0;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Abstract: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Smart platforms constitute an
entirely new field of methods that are still in the emergent stage, requiring
critical engagement and also the real potential to develop a new methodological
toolkit for social and health inquiry. Smart platforms are comprised of bespoke
tools that facilitate user-driven learning by building expertise into the
platform to create an intuitive, supportive, and open-ended environment for
complex social and health inquiry. Unlike statistical platforms, AM-Smart
platforms focus on a single technique or small network of interrelated (mostly
computational) methods, which help users engage new methods. Smart platforms
provide method-specific operational scaffolding, rapid and formative feedback,
and which requires modest technical skill while being rigorous and reliable.
This session will introduce this newly emerging field by exploring the AM-Smart
platform, COMPLEX-IT.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Bio: </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Brian
is Director of the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/research-methods/&source=gmail&ust=1695197810226000&usg=AOvVaw3nGH62GaQR0suQu76y-kIk" target="_blank">Research Methods Centre</a> and Director of the <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/wolfson/about-us/people/" target="_blank">Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing</a> at
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
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>,
and a Fellow of the <a href="https://acss.org.uk/" target="_blank">UK National
Academy of Social Sciences</a>. Brian also runs <a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/" target="_blank">InSPIRE</a>, a UK
policy and research consortium for mitigating the impact places have on air
quality, dementia and brain health across the life course. Brian and his
colleagues have spent the past ten years developing a new case-based, data
mining approach to modelling complex social systems and social complexity,
called <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">COMPLEX-IT</a>, which they have used to help researchers,
policy evaluators, and public sector organisations address a variety of complex
public health issues. <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/brian-c-castellani/" target="_blank">Staff
Profile</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/AmSmartCOMPLEXIT.pdf"><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">CLICK HERE</span></a>
for a link to a PDF of my presentation</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645579.2022.2111817"><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">CLICK HERE</span></a>
for a link to our paper on AM-Smart Methods</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html"><span style="color: #bf9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #BF9000; mso-style-textfill-fill-colortransforms: lumm=75000; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent4; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themeshade: 191;">CLICK HERE</span></a>
for a link to COMPLEX-IT</span></b></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> </p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-32827476450562051342023-09-21T11:52:00.005+01:002023-09-21T20:10:02.387+01:00InSPIRE Consortium for Mitigating the Impact of Air Pollution on Brain Health: Doing research to make an impact on policy and practice <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfvelv7aAPSbItj_DNMeTTBUjqpSxzigEl3IyS9B5epBOMzI_0K2RPkfzy4R2G5pNYF0J3kFH1Enq5o6vSCU6-KIT_d3SyGDGiZNd_1J8J48NiS_tQGb_K649AmSF3Ay90ZmKiVq_aicPn5Jize0VdTJOrFxuQVY1bVq89ZFlN8RSECZKKQfxIkHQWdeZ/s470/Screenshot%202023-09-21%20at%2013.16.45.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="470" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKfvelv7aAPSbItj_DNMeTTBUjqpSxzigEl3IyS9B5epBOMzI_0K2RPkfzy4R2G5pNYF0J3kFH1Enq5o6vSCU6-KIT_d3SyGDGiZNd_1J8J48NiS_tQGb_K649AmSF3Ay90ZmKiVq_aicPn5Jize0VdTJOrFxuQVY1bVq89ZFlN8RSECZKKQfxIkHQWdeZ/s320/Screenshot%202023-09-21%20at%2013.16.45.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jonathan-wistow/">Jonathan
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
for the opportunity to attend and present at the <a href="https://www.uwasa.fi/en" target="_blank">University of Vaasa </a>summer
school workshop, <i>Writing Policy & Practice Relevant Research Papers:
Why, What, When and How?</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<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>
<p class="Default"><b><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 11pt;">InSPIRE
Consortium for Mitigating the Impact of Air Pollution on Brain Health: Doing
research to make an impact on policy and practice </span></i></b><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-size: 11pt;"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">InSPIRE is a UK policy and
research consortium devoted to mitigating the impact that air pollution and the
exposome have on brain health (including cognitive function, cognitive frailty,
mental health and dementia). As a knowledge hub/network, we have three foci:
Acting as a repository for the latest advances in research, practice, and
policy guidance. Co-producing tools and translational materials for the public
and third sector. Engaging in world-leading research on places, the exposome
and brain health. For this talk, I will explain how we set up the consortium to
maximise our impact on policy and practice in this area and how informs the
research we do and the works we publish.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14pt;">HERE ARE
SOME KEY LINKS:</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/INSPIREVaasa.pdf">CLICK
HERE</a> for a PDF of the presentation</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/">CLICK HERE</a> to
visit InSPIRE Consortium</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/">CLICK HERE</a> to visit
CECAN</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html">CLICK HERE</a>
to visit the MAP OF COMPLEXITY SCIENCES</p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-15966862404123472492023-09-05T12:01:00.012+01:002023-09-05T12:06:58.881+01:00How to escape the dilemmas of complex systems modelling in public health: A users guide and map. 18th Social Simulation Conference (SSC)<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BWiZeEeaNefqGVYupUzxYA1zgosx3C6iIUqGCJpwgtT4Natf4P6dN2en4MtbcKm_U3B6RMjMwy3ipz9gvx35fxpTK3-oDyqlO5sLo_DZPKwLt2A5ksHaHcF0-iN5l2L48ksqyo3dy7z22dId0iAxaMfkGcqCYvjdfO86taJdsaLZ2Ji9RcGHPeySRjog/s1922/Screenshot%202023-09-05%20at%2011.33.24.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="1922" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6BWiZeEeaNefqGVYupUzxYA1zgosx3C6iIUqGCJpwgtT4Natf4P6dN2en4MtbcKm_U3B6RMjMwy3ipz9gvx35fxpTK3-oDyqlO5sLo_DZPKwLt2A5ksHaHcF0-iN5l2L48ksqyo3dy7z22dId0iAxaMfkGcqCYvjdfO86taJdsaLZ2Ji9RcGHPeySRjog/w444-h231/Screenshot%202023-09-05%20at%2011.33.24.png" width="444" /></a> <br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">I would like to thank <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/staff/corinnaelsenbroich/">Corinna
Elsenbroich</a> and team for organising the <a href="https://ssc23-sphsu.online/">18th Social Simulation Conference</a>, which
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
of Glasgow, 4-8th September 2023. Thanks also for inviting me to be one of the
keynote speakers. Also, thanks to the audience for the great dialogue and
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.
</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Here
is the title and abstract of my talk:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;"><b><span>How
to escape the dilemmas of complex systems modelling in public health:</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: medium;"><b><span>A
users guide and map</span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: 11pt;">The current literature is clear: there is an urgent
need to apply a complex systems modelling approach to public health. What is
less clear is how to do this effectively. Research and practice have shown
mixed results, due to a series of dilemmas. A short list includes: a strong
tendency to model public health issues instead of interrogating the
development, implementation and evaluation of systems-level interventions; public
health practitioners and funding organisations being biased toward simple,
individual-level, short-term solutions based on clinical trials; modellers
being tone deaf about the roadblocks to applying simulations to public health;
the need to focus on stakeholder engagement; and an overemphasis on
computational models over qualitative methods. Fortunately, a small but growing
global network of scholars are charting new territory. They are part of a fresh
turn in complexity and modelling, the social science turn, which fosters a
transdisciplinary, social complexity imagination that, in one way or another,
addresses the field’s current dilemmas to create new areas of disruptive and
highly innovative social inquiry. The Atlas of social complexity – written with
Lasse Gerrits, forthcoming 2024 Edward Elgar – charts this new territory,
seeking to map its present future; which we do by outlining a set of ‘best
practices’ (with examples of scholars doing this work) for applying social
complexity to public health modelling. These include: (1) challenging social
physics and reductionism, (2) rethinking complex causality and system dynamics,
(3) emphasising co-creation and context, (4) understanding real-world policy
making, (5) modelling at multiple levels and with multiple models, (6)
developing interdisciplinary methods and using qualitative data, (7) grounding
models in rigorous social science, and (8) accepting the limits of what
modelling can do. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></b><span> for a link to COMPLEX-IT</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a></span></b><span> for a link to the Map of the Complexity Sciences</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81mmaw8byp3HaGu_V_iwC4XYR7y2GT5aSZX3Ei6rXytLh46_YPABtu4BOGqikIRDPikls23-SGEw__I14yD2zNHYu_EGIA5oFi_iz3eiwsXq3gPttLTrxALlKvKBErRGvP8Aps7iNdZnn_hrfQtej4F3krR8mCxLb3MUlPpus7_WHraVk0KWZDMO64fI5/s1752/Screenshot%202023-09-05%20at%2011.38.56.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1752" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi81mmaw8byp3HaGu_V_iwC4XYR7y2GT5aSZX3Ei6rXytLh46_YPABtu4BOGqikIRDPikls23-SGEw__I14yD2zNHYu_EGIA5oFi_iz3eiwsXq3gPttLTrxALlKvKBErRGvP8Aps7iNdZnn_hrfQtej4F3krR8mCxLb3MUlPpus7_WHraVk0KWZDMO64fI5/w477-h219/Screenshot%202023-09-05%20at%2011.38.56.png" width="477" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<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";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html">CLICK HERE</a>
for the Complexity Sciences Map</p>
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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK
HERE</a> to explore COMPLEX-IT and its software, tutorials, etc.</p>
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</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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</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 <br /></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b> </b></span></li></ul>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-47513886222578858042023-07-02T08:11:00.001+01:002023-07-02T08:11:40.658+01:00Smart and approachable methods for stakeholders in policy and diplomacy -- ICCS CONFERENCE CoDip<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2BcYG9Zl0wZmIC4o1EI0RyC5WuBDHXkydCkJL4OY4z5Fs7f40q5UaKGn_GLujJRWCDamirlAFMouUQM6gR4vw00zPazcxjfJnv9ZH7m4-hvuVhQ_IbGD9Cn5c4LA5FQUfIiAgyiOlc5qrLq_oNYa0CuTqNQAtnpiG5wFJUANp4S_3KgmM2swk-dsqCaiS/s2560/Screenshot%202023-07-02%20at%2007.43.23.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1130" data-original-width="2560" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2BcYG9Zl0wZmIC4o1EI0RyC5WuBDHXkydCkJL4OY4z5Fs7f40q5UaKGn_GLujJRWCDamirlAFMouUQM6gR4vw00zPazcxjfJnv9ZH7m4-hvuVhQ_IbGD9Cn5c4LA5FQUfIiAgyiOlc5qrLq_oNYa0CuTqNQAtnpiG5wFJUANp4S_3KgmM2swk-dsqCaiS/w400-h176/Screenshot%202023-07-02%20at%2007.43.23.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://engineering.buffalo.edu/engineering-education/people/directory/schimpf-corey.html">Corey
Schimpf</a> and I presented our work as part of the <a href="https://codip.github.io/2022-12-15-workshop-open/">Computational
Diplomacy and Policy Workshop</a> July 3rd, Prague, 2023, for the <a href="https://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2023/">International Conference on
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>,
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>TITLE</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The complexities of policy, data and computational methods:
Charting a new, case-based, social science grounded, AM-Smart methods approach</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<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
Barbrook-Johnson</a>, <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
Gerrits</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophercaden2001/">Christopher
Caden</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ABSTRACT</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In the globalized worlds in which we live, governments
cannot escape the uncertainty, interdependence, and complexity of current public
policy. Nor can they escape the urgent need for sweeping policy reform –
infrastructural, political, environmental, social – to address this complexity,
including the coordinating local, national, and international policies and
stakeholders. Governments are also confronted presently with a big-data flood
of information and the promised ‘sales pitch’ of computational science – from
modelling and simulation to data science and artificial intelligence – to
correctly guide decision-making. While such complexities of policy, data and
methods is not an entirely new problem, what is of critical importance is how
rather ineffective it has all been. The promise of complexity and computation
has struggled to live up to expectation. A shift has emerged in the policy landscape,
albeit minor, involving a ‘social science turn’ in complexity and computational
modelling. This ‘turn’ involves using the theories, concepts, methods and
empirical insights of social science to inform the complexity and computational
sciences. In terms of specifics, leading areas of research includes
co-production for simulation; participatory design; rigorous stakeholder
engagement; a resurgence in systems mapping; mixed-methods development, such as
qualitative comparative analysis and agent-based modelling; addressing issues
of power and inequalities in the policy landscape, including grounding policy
in a complexities of place approach; adopting a case-based perspective; and
co-designing more easily accessible computational modelling platforms, called
AM-Smart methods. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our presentation will seek to outline this ‘social science’
turn in complexity and computational modelling and its implications for
improving public policy. This outline will include (1) a brief overview of the
above advances; (2) a quick introduction to a methods platform we developed,
COMPLEX-IT, which has incorporated many of the social science turn advances
into its design; and (3) critically reflect on the strengths and weakness of
the social science turn, including barriers to and levers for advancing the
utility of this approach across team members with distinct roles, perspectives,
and intersections with public policy work. All with the goal of helping to
advance the field of computational policy/diplomacy.</p>
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HERE</a> TO ACCESS COMPLEX-IT</p>
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CECAN</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://prsm.uk/">CLICK HERE</a> TO ACCESS PRSM –
PARTICIPATORY SYSTEMS MAPPER</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01919-7">CLICK HERE</a> FOR
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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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/ICCPolicyComp.pdf">CLICK HERE</a> for
the PDF of our Workshop Introduction</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #741b47;">HERE ARE THE OTHER PRESENTATIONS FROM OUR TWO-PART SESSION <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_G_m2MjZVeG35UNIu4SPnqbkcDtHAYZWZMKPE9bD_2WiqSOm0YVG3fCuvawEZAn9Kqmp9AlNP4eb4Gm9G1cpcrHlgSdHd1D27FX20Njem6O9CUomMTVi_MnAGila1CKvWEtpNhVWEgUNzsOgbBwPVZUezmNBCoU2taUe9ZhshsWcUxXC6jyAHtJtwkiT/s1040/schedule.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="573" data-original-width="1040" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_G_m2MjZVeG35UNIu4SPnqbkcDtHAYZWZMKPE9bD_2WiqSOm0YVG3fCuvawEZAn9Kqmp9AlNP4eb4Gm9G1cpcrHlgSdHd1D27FX20Njem6O9CUomMTVi_MnAGila1CKvWEtpNhVWEgUNzsOgbBwPVZUezmNBCoU2taUe9ZhshsWcUxXC6jyAHtJtwkiT/w640-h352/schedule.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-52558186527047075882023-05-24T15:27:00.001+01:002023-05-24T15:27:21.240+01:00Mitigating the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda (University of Suffolk, Together for Transformation Conference)<p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLykJAi5b0-4ltfd3oyAvwmTw0N7KmIDSAKBnJQNjCGrn98Cg0MBEwVXAL5gcAeLu0divJrXZDJ-duX7TZg9Ncp-ozYc4CajXK4Ot_2E7T5o-UwLESOm_cRf5hkj-afvKL-R9aScOR6dQT8XOirFjWmFy4QZSxZpswBCf0y7Za_U3HznoEui-gV1samQ/s1240/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20at%2014.52.00.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="1240" height="78" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLykJAi5b0-4ltfd3oyAvwmTw0N7KmIDSAKBnJQNjCGrn98Cg0MBEwVXAL5gcAeLu0divJrXZDJ-duX7TZg9Ncp-ozYc4CajXK4Ot_2E7T5o-UwLESOm_cRf5hkj-afvKL-R9aScOR6dQT8XOirFjWmFy4QZSxZpswBCf0y7Za_U3HznoEui-gV1samQ/w194-h78/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20at%2014.52.00.png" width="194" /></a></div>Much thanks to <a href="https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/professor-valerie-gladwell">Valerie Gladwell</a>
and <a href="https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/professor-colin-martin">Colin Martin</a>
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
for Transformation Conference</a></i>, which focused on exploring
transformational research to support collaboration, innovation and policy
change.<p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJArCWoKKLvQCmgEUBNX16Jt1Zt_C2Zsevp5cpbji0gpD-34d3WE4NeJiuRW2Ts8WtGXkiyvD_HT6aiyEv5YgcqIiBQq4WK-eLMOiWVqbVeZFWPlIwuRJv4x_atDKcIwezdW1yNSDNNF0NeJGFsQqTIkjYZEtCstEAayhEPPzzbX4Ena7VZ3wF3AopSQ/s426/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20at%2014.52.18.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="142" data-original-width="426" height="63" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJArCWoKKLvQCmgEUBNX16Jt1Zt_C2Zsevp5cpbji0gpD-34d3WE4NeJiuRW2Ts8WtGXkiyvD_HT6aiyEv5YgcqIiBQq4WK-eLMOiWVqbVeZFWPlIwuRJv4x_atDKcIwezdW1yNSDNNF0NeJGFsQqTIkjYZEtCstEAayhEPPzzbX4Ena7VZ3wF3AopSQ/w186-h63/Screenshot%202023-05-24%20at%2014.52.18.png" width="186" /></a></div>I was there on behalf of INPSIRE and CECAN. <a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/">InSPIRE</a> is a UK policy and research
consortium, housed at Durham University, devoted to mitigating the impact that
air pollution and the exposome have on brain health (including cognitive
function, mental health and dementia). <a href="https://www.cecan.ac.uk/">CECAN</a> is the Centre
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
policy on air quality and brain health. <a href="https://www.inspireairbrain.org/copy-of-publications">CLICK HERE FOR
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
the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy
agenda</a></span></i><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<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
PDF of PowerPoint</span></span></a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #0b5394;">ABSTRACT</b></span></p>
<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
air pollution at critical points in the life-course is detrimental to brain
health, including cognitive decline and dementia. Social determinants play a
significant role, including socio-economic deprivation, environmental factors
and heightened health and social inequalities. Policies have been proposed more
generally, but their benefits for brain health have yet to be fully explored.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></p>
<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
consortium of 20+ academics in a participatory and consensus method to develop
the first policy agenda for mitigating air pollution's impact on brain health
and dementia, including an umbrella review and engaging 11 stakeholder
organisations.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="color: #0b5394;"><span> </span></b></span></p>
<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
areas. Research and Funding included: (1) embracing a complexities of place
approach that (2) highlights vulnerable populations; (3) details the impact of
ambient PM2.5 on brain health, including current and historical high-resolution
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
air pollution</a>; (5) catalogues the multiple pathways to disease for brain
health and dementia, including those most at risk; (6) embraces a life course
perspective; and (7) radically rethinks funding. Education and Awareness
included: (8) making this unrecognised public health issue known; (9)
developing educational products; (10) attaching air pollution and brain health
to existing strategies and campaigns; and (11) providing publicly available
monitoring, assessment and screening tools. Policy Evaluation included: (12)
conducting complex systems evaluation; (13) engaging in co-production; and (14)
evaluating air quality policies for their brain health benefits.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span></p>
<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
and air pollution, setting a policy agenda is crucial. Policy needs to be
matched by scientific evidence and appropriate guidelines, including bespoke
strategies to optimise impact and mitigate unintended consequences. The agenda
provided here is the first step toward such a plan.</span></span></span></p>
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DRMC has had a busy academic year and we are only two-thirds of the way
through! Since autumn, through the Research Methods Café and other
avenues, we have had research conversations on research interview
methods, discussed R software, worked with our new DRMC Student Fellows,
set up the new research themes, and developed a Power Automate guide to
process separate reviewing of anonymous and identifiable information
for grant/job applications.<br aria-hidden="true" /> <br aria-hidden="true" /><i><b><span face=""Arial", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">We also had three visiting scholars to Durham.</span></b></i>
DRMC has tremendous capacity to become a world-leading hub for
intellectual engagement around methods. Toward this effort, the
following three international scholars visited the DRMC. </span></p><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="182" id="x_x__x0000_i1038" src="https://mcusercontent.com/2c4e9071cb1e0e7935bce6c0b/images/c2cdbe25-6d1b-2bea-24ff-70d5167d4ade.jpg" style="height: 1.8958in; 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="10" 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"><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="color: #007c89;">Prof Christophe Gernigon</span></b></a><b><span face=""Helvetica", sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont">, Université de Montpellier, France</span></b><br aria-hidden="true" />Christophe
is Professeur des Universités in Psychology of Sport and Exercise at
the Université de Montpellier. Christophe specialises in the application
of complexity modelling, in particular, dynamical systems theory, to
topics in social psychology and sports psychology. For more on his work,
<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
is in the Department of Engineering Education, University of Buffalo,
State University of New York, USA. His expertise is in agent
architecture and AI, design research and design thinking, data
visualization, critical studies, data mining, educational technology,
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>
– which non-experts can use to run some of the latest developments in
computational modelling. We are presently developing a systems mapping
tab and a fast-ABM tab. Corey visited Durham in October to present on a
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
is truly a global scholar. Born in France, studied in Canada, did his
post-doctoral studies at Cambridge, and is presently working in the
States. </span></i>Philippe’s research group primarily work on
simulation models and machine learning for public health. More
specifically, they are focused on discrete simulation models (e.g.,
agent-based modeling, cellular automata), network analysis, and machine
learning (e.g., classification, performance analysis). Currently, his
main projects are (i) using machine learning to accelerate large-scale
simulations and (ii) shifting from ‘big’ to ‘useful’ data by identifying
the minimum parts of a dataset needed to quickly make accurate
predictions. <br aria-hidden="true" /> <br aria-hidden="true" />Philippe is
part of the international DRMC team developing new approaches to
agent-based modelling. He was also a great colleague and support during
the COVID pandemic, as the world community of modellers, of which our
DRMC was a team, came together to quickly develop various models of the
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
March, Philippe brought his global experience and methods expertise to
Durham to work on a research paper with our team and to do two
presentations. The first was Agent-based modelling for public health:
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
on our initial success, we will invite several more international
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
is a philosopher of science, technology, and information based at the
University of Amsterdam. Her current research concerns epistemological,
methodological, and normative aspects as they arise in the biomedical
and social sciences, and in highly technologized scientific contexts.
She is currently working on an edited volume on complexity in causality.
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
is Academic Director of the Institute for Housing and Urban Development
Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research focuses
on social scientific research methods, complexity sciences, systems
theories, urban planning and development, governance, railway systems,
infrastructure development, qualitative research methods, qualitative
comparative analysis, network analysis, system modelling,
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
is Chair in Identities and Social Cohesion in Africa, at Nelson Mandela
University. Another global scholar, Andrea was awarded PhD in
Philosophy from Villanova University, Philadelphia, 2006. Her research
focused on bringing complexity-thinking in continental philosophy into
contact with psychoanalytic theory, leading to the publication of a book
entitled Derrida vis-á-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and
Psychoanalysis (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008). Presently,
her work remains engaged, broadly speaking, in examining the interfaces
between philosophy as a way of life in its many dimensions,
psychoanalytic thinking, and the development of notions of ethical
responsibility within the contemporary paradigmatic shift from
“simplicity” to “complexity.” </span></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-12907861784161230952023-04-25T08:19:00.001+01:002023-04-25T08:25:12.386+01:00 Complexity scientists and those interested in complex systems research, please do better literature reviews<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy1n-TvW9O-nyEcSFf2Snn2lzUMRnmjI6DlhglP-vZ-s2A0FGnegxXP037tG5ycQc2tXHCe9ujueJ-TIAKoeETg8tUwyJ7XCyDVesXULQN3rHdQECecuc8f2uXiyWeqq3NtAqBT7NlyhF3Jte4ChJNzB3gLnf4mXrE6wwycD2T9YGA42Y7qikN9HQQw/s1280/tumblr_c37fbcd174f1bd6fa5156b27fff81726_54a688ae_1280.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgy1n-TvW9O-nyEcSFf2Snn2lzUMRnmjI6DlhglP-vZ-s2A0FGnegxXP037tG5ycQc2tXHCe9ujueJ-TIAKoeETg8tUwyJ7XCyDVesXULQN3rHdQECecuc8f2uXiyWeqq3NtAqBT7NlyhF3Jte4ChJNzB3gLnf4mXrE6wwycD2T9YGA42Y7qikN9HQQw/s320/tumblr_c37fbcd174f1bd6fa5156b27fff81726_54a688ae_1280.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">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!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">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!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But come on! . . . </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Complexity scientists and those interested in complex systems research, please do better literature reviews. It is misleading and lacking scientific rigour.</span></p><br /><p><br /></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-62090161143622856322023-04-19T07:21:00.000+01:002023-04-19T07:21:36.421+01:00The Atlas of Social Complexity: Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent Possible (Workshop at Nelson Mandela University)
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNKMJ1Y9HGXqrEcMnQ1LIFMPO2jBhkmgXEhWxwtFq0Lmnsvh2flHuLVdjF_1kc8ye-n4sLT7IUk8wDsha-Dz-qT97KO7DDAypXP8J-Ko_8w_ihvo5YqkqiOEDGTuWjZUtWDyhVld3tGuvUGb51LF9nAGq_tG0Vbj4ELJtq_xxwoPcbAFTj82jW-YcQA/s1524/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20at%2008.06.26.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1524" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoNKMJ1Y9HGXqrEcMnQ1LIFMPO2jBhkmgXEhWxwtFq0Lmnsvh2flHuLVdjF_1kc8ye-n4sLT7IUk8wDsha-Dz-qT97KO7DDAypXP8J-Ko_8w_ihvo5YqkqiOEDGTuWjZUtWDyhVld3tGuvUGb51LF9nAGq_tG0Vbj4ELJtq_xxwoPcbAFTj82jW-YcQA/w387-h261/Screenshot%202023-04-19%20at%2008.06.26.png" width="387" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I 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 run a
workshop on complexity at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Nelson Mandela
University</a>. The workshop is based on a forthcoming book in 2024 – <span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>The
Atlas of Social Complexity</b> </span>(<a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/">Edward Elgar
Publishing</a>) -- that <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-management-team/lasse-gerrits">Lasse
Gerrits</a> and I are in the final stages of writing. </p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: #351c75;">Here is the Workshop Abstract</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Although the
complexity sciences have done much to advance the social sciences, over the
last decade the field has run into some hard situations – thirteen to be exact.
Some are self-imposed, others come from how 21<sup>st</sup> century science is
conducted. Examples include ignoring </span>the wider social sciences;
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>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">These situations presently
prevent the study of social complexity from becoming the disruptive,
transdisciplinary field it originally sought to be in the 1990s when the <i>complexity
turn</i> in the social sciences took place. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fortunately, a
small but growing global network of scholars are charting new territory. They
are part of a fresh turn in complexity, the <i>social science turn</i>, which
fosters a transdisciplinary, social complexity imagination that, in one way or
another, addresses the field’s thirteen situations to create new areas of
disruptive and highly innovative social inquiry. The <i>Atlas of social
complexity</i> charts this new territory, seeking to map its present future. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Organised around
five major themes – (1) Cognition, emotion and consciousness, (2) Dynamics of
human psychology, (3) Living in social systems, (4) Advancing a new methods
agenda, and (5) The unfinished space – the Atlas functions as a tour guide,
surveying over thirty leading-edge research areas (some still under
construction) that readers can variously combine and develop. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The Atlas is a
practical guide for those seeking new ideas and new avenues of study to pursue,
all in the hope of fostering the transdisciplinary social complexity
imagination needed to address some of the biggest global challenges we, as a
world community, presently face. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>The purpose of
this interactive Workshop is to introduce the Atlas to foster a discussion on
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
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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</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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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html">CLICK HERE</a>
for the Complexity Sciences Map</p>
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</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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</span></span></span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">CLICK
HERE</a> to explore COMPLEX-IT and its software, tutorials, etc.</p>
<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";">
</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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</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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</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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{margin-bottom:0cm;}</style>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-24678304700270765362023-04-18T09:13:00.013+01:002023-04-19T06:50:50.066+01:00Early Life Brain Development, Air Pollution and the Exposome: A Complexity Perspective (Lecture at Nelson Mandela University)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWryZlnCrctFQWJJSUkrHV5CgaspZO7JdaerVRahPdDN1anjLxFp_2NK0ayxVnLnrOmhb1TjErb8h2N3z8RU2if2zGNTgfJSnhIF6e3TnnIf7q1Zf1zqAgB-Fu76tClbS334cRpdPVINKTJ_Qua9oNcrldnKjCUgvdEKPCYtr0MkwVwsKbpZ9xnltIQ/s648/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20at%2010.10.55.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="648" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWryZlnCrctFQWJJSUkrHV5CgaspZO7JdaerVRahPdDN1anjLxFp_2NK0ayxVnLnrOmhb1TjErb8h2N3z8RU2if2zGNTgfJSnhIF6e3TnnIf7q1Zf1zqAgB-Fu76tClbS334cRpdPVINKTJ_Qua9oNcrldnKjCUgvdEKPCYtr0MkwVwsKbpZ9xnltIQ/w277-h180/Screenshot%202023-04-18%20at%2010.10.55.png" width="277" /></a></div><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;">I
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
present my work on early Life Brain Development, Air Pollution and the
Exposome: A Complexity Perspective at <a href="https://www.blogger.com/">Nelson
Mandela University</a>. The
purpose of the talk is to outline a new framing of the exposome, allostatic
load and brain health grounded in a case-based complexities of place
perspective. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><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></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">ABSTRACT:
</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adverse
environmental exposures during early life development, in particular air
pollution, are crucial to the brain health that children and adolescents (and
the communities in which they live) subsequently experience throughout their
life-course. Brain health ranges from neurodegenerative disease and
developmental disorders to cognitive function and mental health. Given this
pathways to disease link to development, a new field of study has emerged
called the exposome. The exposome is a complex configuration of all the
exposures a community and its individuals experience in a lifetime and how the
multifaceted chemistry of the systems in which people live meet with the
complexities of the human brain and public health – particularly in terms of
health and social inequalities. For example, by 2050, 24% of global deaths will
be linked to the environment; 30-55% to social determinants; and over 139
million people will have dementia at a global cost of $2.8 trillion. Mitigating
these public health issues by intervening in early life development is key. The
theoretical challenge, however, is how best to make sense of such complexity.
The purpose of this presentation is to explore how a complex systems view of the
intersection between social determinants and the exposome and their impact on brain
health development as a function of place is the best approach for advancing
such a difficult, interdisciplinary field of study and its policy implications.
The case study as evidence will be the latest research on air pollution and
brain health in early life and adolescence.</span></blockquote><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="color: #e71beb; font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here is a<a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/InSPIREExposomeComplexity.pdf"><span style="color: #e71beb;"> link to my PowerPoint</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;">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.,
Barabási, A. L., & Miller, G. W. (2020). The exposome and health:
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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{page:WordSection1;}</style><p> <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-81487820986284185182023-03-31T19:12:00.006+01:002023-03-31T19:14:21.738+01:00There is no god independent of human goodness.<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">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. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Julius_Norwich" target="_blank">John Julius Norwich's</a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/24042911" target="_blank"><i>Sicily</i></a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Reid" target="_blank">Anna Reid</a>'s <i><a href="https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/anna-reid/borderland/9781399608824/" target="_blank">Borderland: A journey through the history of the Ukraine</a></i>. </span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Both countries, as most know, have suffered tremendously at the hands of others. Millions upon millions of people being killed, exiled, or left living lives of desperation because of the terrible inhumanity and indifference of others.</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: large;">My friend said something profound that I wanted to share:</span><div><blockquote><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">"<span style="color: #666666;">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." </span></span></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p></div></div></div>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-40240358322254199742023-03-27T15:47:00.002+01:002023-03-27T15:47:37.073+01:00Time and Process in QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) and Case-based Reasoning <p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; 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/AVvXsEg0RUJqWOJLjsE1OHd2m43nmQibQsNSzi94hU5cjsCJ8XWa_1MUWWP28iM4qmFmDX_au_X5VsHzVXbFjUMqEx7Ql0XDczqH9voTktjldqRzcyA96Ra35xwOHLE5byq3FsBVwF56SfWqlHFG_MCiv_Jfm-H5381Qy5JkyPDmn1CbTmdLRn0Qnhf6h_ishA" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="1002" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0RUJqWOJLjsE1OHd2m43nmQibQsNSzi94hU5cjsCJ8XWa_1MUWWP28iM4qmFmDX_au_X5VsHzVXbFjUMqEx7Ql0XDczqH9voTktjldqRzcyA96Ra35xwOHLE5byq3FsBVwF56SfWqlHFG_MCiv_Jfm-H5381Qy5JkyPDmn1CbTmdLRn0Qnhf6h_ishA" width="320" /></a></div>Interest in Qualitative Comparative Analysis is burgeoning and has
sparked a wide range of methodological developments. One area that deserves
attention is the integration of time and process into the logic and workings of
OCA as a research approach and technique. <p></p>
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{page:WordSection1;</style> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">In Fall of 2022, <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits" target="_blank">Lasse Gerrits</a> and <a href="https://compasss.org/intlqca/about-us/sofia-pagliarin/" target="_blank">Sofia Pagliarin</a>, both of
the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Erasmus University
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
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
workshop itself, this report is essential reading for anybody interested in
longitudinal QCA: it summarizes existing conceptualizations of the
relationships among time and QCA, provides a high-level overview of
methodological techniques for incorporating time and process into QCA, and identifies
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.
(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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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-42327896209535767492022-10-05T12:56:00.003+01:002022-10-05T13:17:48.237+01:00COMPLEX-IT: A software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_rDOGxfMI9uLUdj07XVC0X8GCc48jTkNxGu81Zs9MTmPBZF-8ty17yr1A03th6TmWERIhBmx41ViLEKUlbtMUfDpolm1MSDDF4XtT_WVBlOZ77yToq5k-JhPvi9sIwYxrkzvK8FD56NuhSCqdfoyTYdyCEb5DBQtXykgm49jcTGaeK3_5BdB0n0wAQ/s250/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.47.19.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="230" data-original-width="250" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_rDOGxfMI9uLUdj07XVC0X8GCc48jTkNxGu81Zs9MTmPBZF-8ty17yr1A03th6TmWERIhBmx41ViLEKUlbtMUfDpolm1MSDDF4XtT_WVBlOZ77yToq5k-JhPvi9sIwYxrkzvK8FD56NuhSCqdfoyTYdyCEb5DBQtXykgm49jcTGaeK3_5BdB0n0wAQ/w141-h130/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.47.19.png" width="141" /></a></div>Much thanks to <a href="https://www.eur.nl/en/people/sofia-pagliarin" target="_blank">Sofia Pagliarin</a> and <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en/about/ihs-staff/ihs-academic-staff/lasse-gerrits" target="_blank">Lasse Gerrits</a> for the chance to present at the Time-in-QCA workshop at <a href="https://www.ihs.nl/en" target="_blank">Erasmus University</a>.<p></p><p> <br /></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;"><b>WORKSHOP OVERVIEW</b></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">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. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><b>COMPLEX-IT AND QCA </b></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">For my talk, I presented on <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/COMPLEXIT_QCA.pdf" target="_blank"><i>COMPLEX-IT: A software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA</i></a>. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCeU6hQ6GOlJvT2nHBOeVnCPRYDmg_qPUQWyz9DNeXo9BQeAR2rhPMkrw9XWuAdxcbqnHzERMpX-MP3M2afVahykNF8jmSTxGW-KVglFwtGg7kRanLGt29OTnk16RKqJlDSYVMnL8fYsK1xadrInVW8qQIp61E-82hbE1TZZwu5MtLAASRd2qnumTNUg/s1554/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.54.06.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1554" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCeU6hQ6GOlJvT2nHBOeVnCPRYDmg_qPUQWyz9DNeXo9BQeAR2rhPMkrw9XWuAdxcbqnHzERMpX-MP3M2afVahykNF8jmSTxGW-KVglFwtGg7kRanLGt29OTnk16RKqJlDSYVMnL8fYsK1xadrInVW8qQIp61E-82hbE1TZZwu5MtLAASRd2qnumTNUg/w400-h330/Screenshot%202022-10-05%20at%2012.54.06.png" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/COMPLEXIT_QCA.pdf" target="_blank">HERE IS A LINK</a> TO THE PRESENTATION</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">HERE IS A LINK</a> TO COMPLEX-IT</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/depressedhealth.pdf" target="_blank">HERE IS A LINK</a> TO OUR CO-MORBID DEPRESSION PHYSICAL HEALTH paper <br /></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> <br /></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-51608444288527660022022-09-30T09:56:00.002+01:002022-09-30T09:59:48.966+01:00Health CASCADE Workshop: Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-YO3n3MoXsPgdmvfOz-DZDth1nRaBYAMcV84abqwqmrY24cjRpKwa-QQYJqtg2VhuW3z9H91MlU1AZ7hVtw59IJTp_xu6eHpRRfMrkSQTHI7f_ZYzh_jmUFOwtqdIB15vOrn9R6g95REnIzFBJYjpGt124MccvtoTrf3zeLeoxoxryOFsRXIdqYCNA/s716/Screenshot%202022-09-30%20at%2008.43.39.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="264" data-original-width="716" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6-YO3n3MoXsPgdmvfOz-DZDth1nRaBYAMcV84abqwqmrY24cjRpKwa-QQYJqtg2VhuW3z9H91MlU1AZ7hVtw59IJTp_xu6eHpRRfMrkSQTHI7f_ZYzh_jmUFOwtqdIB15vOrn9R6g95REnIzFBJYjpGt124MccvtoTrf3zeLeoxoxryOFsRXIdqYCNA/w400-h148/Screenshot%202022-09-30%20at%2008.43.39.png" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On 2</span>8<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span>and 29 <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Sept 2022,</span> <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I had the opportunity to present on <i><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/CASCADE_Presentation.pdf">Co-producing
complex systems interventions for public health</a></i>, as part of the <a href="https://healthcascade.eu/">Health CASCADE</a> three-day workshop in
Amsterdam on co-creation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<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
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
<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>
for the invite, <span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and to everyone that
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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ABOUT HEALTH CASCADE</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i>Before turning to my talk,
here is a bit more about Health CASCADE. It is a brilliant project and something
others should explore and promote! It is very much at the leading edge of
co-creation for health.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Health CASCADE is a Marie
Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Networks project funded by the European
Union (H2020 MSCA ITN) (Project number 956501).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The aim of Health CASCADE is to
foster the next generation of highly trained research leaders to develop
evidence based guiding principles, novel tools, and new technologies to make
co-creation an effective tool to fight complex public health problems through a
European Joint Doctoral Programme.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Global health challenges confront
us all as individuals and communities – from obesity to pandemics, cancer to
dementia – magnified by climate change and increasing inequality. These
challenges are complex problems arising from multiple interconnected factors
and feedback loops, resistant to existing public health programmes. We need new
ideas and new approaches such as co-creation. By bringing together citizens,
academics, businesses, and civil organisations, the project aims to co-create
effective solutions to these complex problems.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>OVERVIEW OF MY TWO-DAY
WORKSHOP</b></span></span></p>
<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
value of integrating complexity science and co-production for developing
effective, evidence-based tools for addressing complex public health problems. (<a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/CASCADE_Presentation.pdf">HERE IS THE
LINK to the PDF of my Presentation</a>)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihPBZIApkFfMCc5HyrUShbXs9AAt6MdEjqmiF-SttYQcWpJsCW9PMrTg9E8RDokgPzsSkw-K1ZsGoMYsOyRLU0Bs2pDCPKjdl2GL8P4bUj3b6_lVdZL1UDJqUXK_CDQbIAxnyzt0zZRUUQxak1PSR-Cj2c98SD7fDwAQAK_0oJda0Xa8YXod6kFQntoA/s1634/Screenshot%202022-09-30%20at%2009.23.44.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="1634" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihPBZIApkFfMCc5HyrUShbXs9AAt6MdEjqmiF-SttYQcWpJsCW9PMrTg9E8RDokgPzsSkw-K1ZsGoMYsOyRLU0Bs2pDCPKjdl2GL8P4bUj3b6_lVdZL1UDJqUXK_CDQbIAxnyzt0zZRUUQxak1PSR-Cj2c98SD7fDwAQAK_0oJda0Xa8YXod6kFQntoA/w400-h111/Screenshot%202022-09-30%20at%2009.23.44.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p>
<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>
<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
proposed as a powerful toolkit for addressing complex public health problems,
including the important role of place. In turn, co-creation has gained traction
for addressing the complexities of public health policy, practice, and
promotion, particularly around issues of inequality and inequity. While both
approaches offer vital strategies for addressing complexity in public health,
researchers are only beginning to explore their integration. Hence the purpose
of this workshop.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></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;">ORGANIZATION OF WORKSHOP</span></b></span></p>
<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
thinking about complexity in public health. To develop this framework, we began
with an introduction to the complexity sciences, including a map of its present-day
trajectories. From there we examined the current challenges the field faces. Particular
focus was given to the failure of most complexity science approaches –
particularly in terms of computational modelling – to effectively engage
stakeholders in the model building process, as well as the development or
evaluation of public health policies and practices. Given our public health
focus, the COVID-19 pandemic was used as our case study. We ended the day
highlighting some examples where progress has been made in integrating
complexity science and co-production, particularly participatory systems
mapping and case-based complexity – which attendees got a chance to explore.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></p>
<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
discussions. The first explored, from both an epistemological and practical
level, which approaches to co-creation and complexity science might work best together
(or not), or critically inform or challenge one the other, including different
methods and tactics. The second session explored what sorts of methods or research
projects, or case studies participants could develop to advance the integration
of these two approaches to address complex public health problems.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></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;">HERE IS A KEY POINT </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">– WHICH WE
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
limitations of science and policy and practice. Those same limitations are
often found in the complexity sciences. How can co-creation address those
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,
co-creation struggles with complexity and systems thinking. How can the tools
of complexity science help? Be it systems mapping, computational modelling, or
network analysis? </span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<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
LINKS from the Workshop</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<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";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-01919-7">Here is an
open-access book</a> by Barbrook-Johnson and Penn that is the gold standard on practical
guidelines for doing systems mapping, including participatory systems mapping.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<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";">
</span></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829221002318">Here
is an article</a> by two CASCADE members (Lead author, <a href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/niamh-smith-18301278">Niamh Smith</a> and
co-author, <a href="https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/persons/sebastien-chastin">Sebastien Chastin</a>),
using systems mapping and complex network analysis.</p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p>
<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
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
evaluation from a complex systems perspective. CECAN stands for the Centre for
the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<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.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935122016899">Here
is an open-access article</a> by me and my colleagues that used participatory
systems mapping to develop a co-created policy agenda for air quality and brain
health and dementia.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
<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
the community engagement work around co-creation and systems thinking</a> being
done by <a href="https://people.unisa.edu.au/sharon.zivkovic">Sharon Zivkovic</a>
and colleagues. </p>
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<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
COMPLEX-IT</a>, the software package my colleagues and I developed for helping evaluators,
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<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
Gerrits</a> and I had the opportunity to present on our Atlas of Social
Complexity project for the RICH, <span style="letter-spacing: 0.6pt;">the <a href="https://www.radboud-complexity.com/">Radboud Interfaculty Complexity Hub</a>.
</span>The focus of our presentation was, <i>Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent
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.
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
Ross</a>, <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/hitomi-shibata-094090219">Hitomi
Shibata</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jerraldrector/">Jerrald
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
discussion, which helped us to develop our ideas further. In particular, we
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
of integrating complexity thinking into primary, secondary and university education
(</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
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>
<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
of the complexity sciences is well-documented. Once deemed a minority interest,
the complexity sciences have been taken up in many fields such that some of its
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
we have developed</span><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;"> (2021)</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;">,</span><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;"> demonstrates this widespread popularity.</span><b><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;">A major challenge remains</span></b><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 complexity sciences have run into a series of intellectual traps –
e.g., quants over qual, poor knowledge of social science – which presently have
the study of complexity on a bit of a problematic course. Looking to the
future, can these present challenges be addressed? If so, to what extent or in
what ways? What do such near and distant future adjacent possibilities look
like? Can we map them? Where is the frontier of the complexity sciences headed,
or not headed? The purpose of this <i>highly
interactive workshop</i> is to explore the future (the adjacent possible)
of the complexity sciences, and for participants to have an active hand in
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>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/RICH%20presentation.pdf" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> for the PDF of the presentation </span></span><br /></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><br /><p> </p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-36529783811106405762022-09-21T19:09:00.008+01:002022-09-22T08:23:21.685+01:00The psychology of complexity: a few notes from forthcoming Atlas of Social Complexity
<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,
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Lasse
Gerrits</span></a> and I are working on the forthcoming <i>Atlas of Social
Complexity</i>, to be published in Autumn 2023 with <a href="https://www.blogger.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Edward
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>
<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
the book is how <span style="color: black;">a global network of researchers,
scholars, artists, social activists, policy makers, and civil servants have
been working variously over the last decade to overcome to venture into new
territories in the study of social complexity, creating entirely new fields of
social science synthesis and advance, as well as inspiring the complexity
imagination we presently need to address the significant global social problems
we currently face.</span></span>
</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
progress being made in the study of key topics in psychology and the cognitive
sciences, from cellular cognition and network immunology to the gut-brain axis
and the emotional self to our embodied minds and the dynamical systems of human
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>
<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
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>
</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,
most of the main points remain core to my argument.</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/ComplexityPsych.pdf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Here is a copy of the PDF</span></b></a> of the presentation</span></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5JJAE5Z2xs" target="_blank"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Here is a link to a video </b></span></a>of my lecture and the conversation that
followed</span></span></p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style><p><span style="-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;"> </span></p><p><span style="-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;"> </span></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-72398164705953831932022-09-14T09:49:00.010+01:002022-09-14T15:26:46.268+01:00 The emergence of SMART methods -- non-expert platforms for social science and health research <p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT2JKSImG0BzbH8gwnHTip0M303-j_bH8FyegVcyE8Ie0NC7dhiN6J17a28YMY5HX0dIsHog8dKpx2X6f4iJkxEv2dJVNqNjk96MNQgLRGH9AwF05IA3J--endoX1BCqbP6_IUYJcLL7aVjMzyguv2NsJJ-rgkOp46a0U7xU0WlHSlzPv41MmStb6bA/s2172/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png" 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/AVvXsEjIT2JKSImG0BzbH8gwnHTip0M303-j_bH8FyegVcyE8Ie0NC7dhiN6J17a28YMY5HX0dIsHog8dKpx2X6f4iJkxEv2dJVNqNjk96MNQgLRGH9AwF05IA3J--endoX1BCqbP6_IUYJcLL7aVjMzyguv2NsJJ-rgkOp46a0U7xU0WlHSlzPv41MmStb6bA/w400-h121/Screenshot%202022-09-13%20at%2012.26.44.png" width="400" /></a></div><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
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
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>
(Department of Engineering Education, University at Buffalo) first
identified, which he and I are calling smart and approachable methods or
<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>
</p><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="color: #00b050; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #00B050; mso-style-textfill-type: solid;">PURPOSE
OF SESSION</span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This session will introduce this newly emerging field, provide
some examples, and then explore with attendees how to critically engage and
develop new smart methods for social science and health research.</span>
<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>
<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;">Examine the utility of this field</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; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">I</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">dentify key concerns</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; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">S</span><span style="font-family: Arial; language: en-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ketch out ideas for possible
AM-Smart methods</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; 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>
<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>
</p><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">How do AM-Smart methods impact learning due to the speed
at which we they work?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">The value or
ramifications of datasets that have not been understood?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">The value of pausing
and slow science.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">When is it good to have
slow versus fast science?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">In terms of scaffolding
how do we make sure of not cutting corners.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">How do we decide what
to use based on different context and users and different levels of expertise.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">The importance of
co-production.</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">Throwing the baby out with the bathwater by critiquing
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;">
what we want them to learn?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">Where is the learning taking place or not taking place?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">Are we smart enough for AM-Smart methods?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">The value of gaming environments for AM-Smart
environments?</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><div class="O1" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 40px; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.31in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-special-format: bullet;">•</span><span style="language: en-GB;">This tends to favour
fast processing.</span></div>
<p><b><span style="color: #38761d;">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.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #38761d;">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.</span></b><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-22332168501959881212022-09-13T12:47:00.000+01:002022-09-13T12:47:09.692+01:00COMPLEX-IT for rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research (MethodsCon University of Manchester)<p>
</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
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
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
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>,
which is a free online R-Studio suite of computational social science
techniques for classification, scenario simulation, and prediction. <span class="marki43ad9tva" data-markjs="true" data-ogab="" data-ogac="" data-ogsb="" data-ogsc="">COMPLEX-IT</span>
was created for users who are non-experts in these techniques,
including cluster analysis, topographical neural nets, agent-based
modelling, micro-simulation, data visualisation, and
prediction/forecasting methods. Using a small public health dataset,
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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{page:WordSection1;}</style></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-59720714476125488342022-03-08T11:52:00.007+00:002022-06-13T09:55:56.845+01:00Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation<p>I would like to thank <a href="https://www.pdx.edu/systems-science/dr-wayne-wakeland" target="_blank">Wayne Wakeland </a>and his colleagues in the <a href="https://www.pdx.edu/systems-science/" target="_blank">systems science program</a> at Portland State University for the chance to present at their <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Ui5s2lwYQLHTrgubMtK43CMk0QFKYruy3fWnJTRVX4/edit#gid=0" target="_blank">noon systems science and complexity seminar</a>.</p><p>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> (Department of Engineering Education, University at Buffalo) first identified, which he and I are calling smart and approachable methods or <b><i>AM-Smart </i></b>for short.</p><p>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, <a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexit.html" target="_blank">COMPLEX-IT</a>.</p><p><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>HERE IS A QUICK SUMMARY OF MY PRESENTATION</b></span><br /></p><div style="-moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px none; caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", 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;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">TITLE: Smart Methods for Complex Policy Evaluation</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; border: 0px none; caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30); color: #201f1e; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", 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;"><b>ABSTRACT: </b> 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. <span style="color: #e69138;">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.</span></div><p><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b>LINKS </b></span><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/Am%20Smart%20Methods.pdf" target="_blank">Here is the LINK</a> to the PowerPoint of my presentation. <br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://media.pdx.edu/media/t/1_yjap0fqa/161380472" target="_blank">Here is the LINK</a> to a video of my presentation.</li></ul><div><div> </div><div>Examples of AM-Smart methods are as follows:<p>
</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
environment for case-based modelling and policy evaluation for non-experts.</span></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;"> </span></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/">SOMbrero</a> for artificial intelligence </span></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;"> </span></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/">PRSM</a> for participatory systems mapping</span></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;"> </span></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/">SAGEMODELER</a> for learning systems dynamics
through designing models</span></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;"> </span></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/">FactoShiny</a> for statistical analysis and
visualization </span></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;"> </span></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/">Occam</a>, a Discrete Multivariate Modeling
(DMM) tool based on the methodology of Reconstructability Analysis (RA).</span></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;"> </span></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/">COMPASS</a> for comparative methods software </span></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;"> </span></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/">NetLogo Web</a> for agent-based models</span></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;"> </span></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/">MAIA</a> for designing multiagent models for
institutional analysis</span></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;"> </span></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/">Cytoscape</a> for modeling complex networks</span></p>
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<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
platforms that meet many of the AM-smart attributes but may be less
representative on a few attributes including </span></p>
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<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,
air-quality information platform, including a suite of tools – IQAir Earth,
Map, App and AirVisual</span></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;"> </span></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/">UK CDRC Mapmaker</a>, including indices of
multiple deprivation</span></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;"> </span></p>
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statistically and visually</span></p>
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</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/AVvXsEg3WEXz45rS7rqqxZtVavINkxdBarmJnAeR1r5V0PZ7_u3VXQQqarSAx3rupC5rjk6VyFh1oC3ZQzILKa-ft7NVL-cQEcZukcMyWrX1E1aOMBdj5ypkZ6EKJ7ZAJri0MEE3hlEVgMpvhUj1ijvzc443c4bqdebYrcprh3IdbZ87YFwD3ihZgHh98OQ4AA=s850" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="102" data-original-width="850" height="38" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3WEXz45rS7rqqxZtVavINkxdBarmJnAeR1r5V0PZ7_u3VXQQqarSAx3rupC5rjk6VyFh1oC3ZQzILKa-ft7NVL-cQEcZukcMyWrX1E1aOMBdj5ypkZ6EKJ7ZAJri0MEE3hlEVgMpvhUj1ijvzc443c4bqdebYrcprh3IdbZ87YFwD3ihZgHh98OQ4AA=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></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><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;"><a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/dave-byrne/" target="_blank">David Byrne</a> and I would like to thank <a href="https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/james-nobles" target="_blank">James Noble </a>and <a href="https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/staff/alexandra-potts/" target="_blank">Alexandra Potts</a> for the
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
of January 1-3pm. The focus of this session was “the process
for planning an evaluation of a complex systems approach”.</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;"><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
overview of our presentation included the following – which you can click on to
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>
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<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>
<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
complex systems approach to evaluation?</span></p>
<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
role of methods?</span></p>
<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;">Three
examples:</span></p>
<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>
<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>
<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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{margin-bottom:0cm;}</style><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="-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;"></span></p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-59234803518588905592021-09-15T10:53:00.002+01:002022-08-28T09:38:11.589+01:00Q & A for the 2021 version of the map of the complexity sciences<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9-dbS6KxoeCUjDShpSKg1JBKDCgR9YY5WxNYCqSRizCDe1pbBawO6VR5Z8Nr4pFQSIxplZ0fwN-UOdeZAiyr2mDy3-kVlmOvDPUNXQBn5Nwa9-zVj1ov6dmNyh9KaYIzNlckseaD08yD/s1200/MAP2021.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV9-dbS6KxoeCUjDShpSKg1JBKDCgR9YY5WxNYCqSRizCDe1pbBawO6VR5Z8Nr4pFQSIxplZ0fwN-UOdeZAiyr2mDy3-kVlmOvDPUNXQBn5Nwa9-zVj1ov6dmNyh9KaYIzNlckseaD08yD/w400-h225/MAP2021.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>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.<br /><p></p><p>Brian Castellani and Lasse Gerrits </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/complexity-map_feb09.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE VERSION OF MAP</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.art-sciencefactory.com/MapLegend.html" target="_blank">CLICK HERE FOR PDF OR JPEG OF MAP</a> <br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Q&A FOR THE MAP OF THE COMPLEXITY SCIENCES</span></span></h2></div><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>What is this
map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This map is an
introduction to the complexity sciences – from physics and biology to sociology
and psychology to computational modelling and policy evaluation. We purposely
use the term ‘sciences’ in the plural because there is no one complexity
science and no one boundary around it. The map was created as an educational
tool. It is to be treated as an introduction, not an in-depth investigation
into the field. Experts in the field will also find the map useful for
exploring new areas and for teaching.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>What about the
Arts and Humanities?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfortunately, we
cannot address the Humanities or Arts as the map would become unwieldy. Complex
systems thinking, fractals, chaos theory and other areas of investigation have
been used in the arts; and the Humanities have added key insights, for example,
Buddhist meditation, deep ecology, fractal architecture, urban design, and
assemblage art. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Is the map
historical? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It is roughly
historical. The five lineages, running from left to right, are based on Fritjof
<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
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)
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>),
and (5) artificial intelligence/methods (<span style="color: #ffc000; mso-themecolor: accent4;">orange</span>). While not perfect, we’ve kept this basic framework as
it provides a nice skeleton on which to assemble the map. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How should the
map be read? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It should be read
left to right, moving from the early 1900s to the present. Topics are placed
approximately at the point when they became a major area of study. For each
topic, we have provided a handful of top scholars, including, when possible,
the individual or team that was instrumental in advancing the topic. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How was the
map compiled? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Between the two
of us, the map represents over forty years of combined research and reading, as
well as in-depth discussions with colleagues across the various fields and
around the world. Castellani launched the first version of the map in 2009.
Since then, it has been revised every several years, as the field has massively
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
in our fellowship at the <a href="https://ias.uva.nl/" target="_blank">Institute for Advanced Study of the University ofAmsterdam.</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Why didn’t you
use a bibliometric analysis to make the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bibliometric
analyses are all the rage, and they can be powerful tools. There are a couple
of reasons why we don’t use those tools. First, bibliographic analyses struggle
to construct a history of a topic. They are better at providing cross-sectional
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
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>,
<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
(as opposed to books), recognised journals (which is an issue, as many
complexity works are often in obscure journals or blogs, etc) and sources that
are online as opposed to libraries, archives, conference letters, and so forth.
They also do not capture historical impact beyond citations. Third, there is
range of more minor technical problems that make us unsure if those tools can
do a better job than we did manually. </p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Is this map
complete? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The map is not
complete, and was not designed to be – in fact, we are not sure what would even
entail. The complexity sciences represent a loose (but connected) and quickly
evolving body of knowledge that intersects with almost every field in the
sciences and the social sciences. A map created in 2019 will not look like a
map in 2020. We focus on providing a reasonably comprehensive introduction to
the field. The nice thing about the online version is that, by clicking on the
links, users are taken into even more in-depth reviews that link to an even
wider range of information. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How about
diversity in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, and nationality?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We made a
concerted effort to make sure the map highlighted the work of a wide variety of
scholars around the world and up-and-coming researchers. We also sought gender
and stage of career balance as well as ethnicity and nationality. We will continue to
advance the work of everyone we can.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Why is author
x not on the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We often receive
questions about why a certain author is not on the map. Sometimes the scholar
is missing because of the limitations in our knowledge. Most of the time it is
because the map is an educational tool, and of limited size and space, and can
only include so many people. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Could you
please include author x on the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfortunately, we
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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Could you
please include <i>me</i> on the map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Unfortunately, we
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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>I know how to
improve the map.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">We invite
everyone who believes that our map needs to be improved to make an
alternative one themselves. We are looking forward to such initiatives. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>This is not a
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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As stated above,
we are looking forward to alternatives. In the meantime, in the brave new world
of social media, it is easy to be cruel. Please do not be mean.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Can I use your
map? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">You can always
use the map if you attribute correctly with this reference:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u>Castellani, B
and Gerrits, L (2021). Map of the complexity sciences. Art and Science Factory,
LLC. </u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">While we
encourage sharing of the map, we want to point out that the map may not be used
for commercial purposes and / or without proper attribution. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<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
downloads of the map as a jpg and pdf, which are located on the Map Legend
page.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Under what
license is the map released? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The map is
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
Alike 4.0 International</a> license. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Will you
continue to update the map?</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Yes, we plan to
update the map regularly, as was done since the original version from 2009.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>How do you
know what is complexity and what is not? </b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As others have
said before us, and we agree with, the complexity sciences are not defined by
clear boundaries. It is a sprawling and growing group of theories, methods,
findings, and big and small ideas, that permeates in almost every field
imaginable. The boundaries between what is about complexity and what is not are
amorphous. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The map is
skewered / biased towards…</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Bias is real. For
starters, we can only cover English / German / Dutch / French between us, as such we may
overlook work published in other languages. There is also the fact that
map-making is somewhat path-dependent, where those who are said to have made an
impact may remain to be designated as such. Above all, it can be hard to trace
the origin of ideas, especially going further back in time. It may very well be
that someone took an idea from someone else without proper attribution. Sadly,
some labs or research groups tended to build on the work of PhD’s and postdocs
without giving much credit to their work. This continues to be an issue until
this very day. We’ve tried our best to present a balanced overview of the people
who have driven the study of complexity, and those who continue to do so. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>I don’t think
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>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This is correct. We
purposely include names of upcoming scholars that we find worth following as
they push the field into interesting directions. Map-making is not only about
charting the terrain just crossed but also an attempt to charter the unknown
terrains. That is why we include scholars that we believe have something novel
to say. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style> <br /></p><p> </p>Brian Castellanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16999463977724262598noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3344012822794591839.post-31108291023314787952021-09-13T11:53:00.003+01:002021-09-20T15:14:48.434+01:00The Limits of Evolution and the Modularity of Mind -- Can we please finally move on?<p>In preparation for writing the 'psychology and complexity' for my forthcoming book with Lasse Gerrits, <i>The Atlas of Social Complexity</i>, I have once again delved into the deep end of the pool on modularity of mind and its links to human evolution.</p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Modularity Ain't Rev-Evolutionary <br /></h3><p>Colombo, in an interesting article, <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/670331" target="_blank">Moving forward (and beyond) the modularity debate: A network perspective</a> (2013), nicely sums the purported distinction between modularity and evolutionary psychology: <br /></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #666666;">"At least since Fodor’s 1983 (The Modularity of Mind), the notion of modularity has been one of the most important concepts used to articulate an account of the human cognitive architecture, which provides us with an encompassing theory (a “blueprint”) of the nature, arrangement, and form of the structures and processes that are responsible for cognition and adaptive behavior. This should be distinguished from a theory of the origins of cognitive architectures, which is concerned with the evolutionary and developmental history of the structures and processes that are responsible for cognition and adaptive behavior."</span> <br /></p></blockquote><p>An easy example that makes these differences clear is Chomsky's famous language acquisition device and his agnostic-to-antagonistic views of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology. Massive pages of ink devoted to the complexities of language acquisition aside, Chomsky's basic point is that our brains seem to come ready made, in certain ways, to engage in language -- call it a set of modules if you will. As to how much evolution drives this ability, the answer is probably not as much as we think. We only need so much evolution to survive. While the human brain is a product of evolution, the resulting mind, in all of its massive complexity, is so much more than what we need to evolve and survive. Trying to retrospectively link each little thing we do, from painting a picture to nibbling our nails, to some evolutionary necessity in our past is pointless -- and now it seems, given the current state of the literature, mostly untenable. <br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Finding a middle ground<br /></h3><p>For me, modularity as a strong programme has always been underdetermined by the evidence, with its widespread acceptance appearing to be driven more by academic celebrity and its theoretical simplicity. Modularity as a weak theory has always held my interest, as complex systems are generally comprised of subsystems and lower orders of complexity, working top-down and bottom-up simultaneously, with command centres of limited ability and so forth. The embodied mind being comprised of modules -- that is, some complex network of functional subsystems (from our brains to our gut microbiota), with fuzzy organisational closure, for the purposes of completing a task outside conscious awareness -- just seems to make reasonable sense. Language acquisition, speech, motor function, <span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">paleomammalian emotions, microbiota-gut-brain axis, there is an endless list of things needing constant care and attention that our conscious, command-centre selves cannot effectively manage while writing sentences, eating toast and drinking our coffee in the morning.</span></span></p><p><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, however, and their just-so, reverse engineered usge of modularity -- in particular the massive modularity thesis -- have always seemed baffling. That is not to say that they don't have useful things to say, as they do. They just as often say things that are not useful. It is therefore exciting to see, fingers crossed, that the over-<span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">usage of modularity to support evolutionary psychology, as well as modularity in its strong form, are </span></span></span></span><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">finally going the way of the dinosaurs. Or, at least, that is the sense I got from several recent articles. Here is a quick list:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Pietraszewski, D., & Wertz, A. (2021). <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=rGFYm8AAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=rGFYm8AAAAAJ:IWHjjKOFINEC" target="_blank">Why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity</a>.<i> Perspectives on Psychological Science</i>, 2.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc"><span class="ILfuVd"><span class="hgKElc">Palecek, M. (2017). <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0048393116672833" target="_blank">Modularity of mind: Is it time to abandon this ship?.</a> <i>Philosophy of the Social Sciences</i>, <i>47</i>(2), 132-144.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="gs_citr" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Colombo, M. (2013). <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/670331" target="_blank">Moving forward (and beyond) the modularity debate: A network perspective.</a> <i>Philosophy of Science</i>, <i>80</i>(3), 356-377.</span></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Bertolero, M. A., & Bassett, D. S. (2020). <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12504" target="_blank">On the nature of explanations offered by network science: A perspective from and for practicing neuroscientists</a>. <i>Topics in Cognitive Science</i>, <i>12</i>(4), 1272-1293.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Sosis, R., & Kiper, J. (2014). <a href="https://www.proquest.com/openview/42cb3573fc99602b8889ca687d92b886/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=47829" target="_blank">Why religion is better conceived as a complex system than a norm-enforcing institution</a>. <i>Behavioral and Brain Sciences</i>, <i>37</i>(3), 275.</span></span></p><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">The basic story I get from these articles is that, despite the propaganda, modularity as a basis for our evolutionary psychological development has failed to produce the necessary evidence for its assertions and has made little advance in the past decade or so. In short, it is mostly wrong. Colombo sums it up rather nicely:</div><blockquote><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #666666;">"Because of mere terminological disputes, because of vagueness surrounding putative central features of modularity such as functional specialization, domain specificity, and informational encapsulation, and especially because of little agreement about the proper empirical methods for discovering and justifying the existence of candidate modules (cf. the controversy around the cheater-detection module: e.g., Fodor 2000, 2008; Sperber and Girotto 2003; Cosmides and Tooby 2008a, 2008b), the modularity debate in the cognitive sciences and philosophy of psychology has often been frustratingly fruitless." (See <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/670331" target="_blank">Moving forward (and beyond) the modularity debate: A network perspective</a>) </span></div></blockquote><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">In turn, as the theoretical foundation for evolutionary psychology, this has come at a cost. In <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=rGFYm8AAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=rGFYm8AAAAAJ:IWHjjKOFINEC" target="_blank">Why evolutionary psychology should abandon modularity</a> (2021), <span style="font-size: small;">Pietraszewski and Wertz make this point clear: </span></span> </div><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"></div><blockquote><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #666666;">"The upshot of all of this back-and-forth is that both sides in this modularity debate feel as if the other is patently absurd in its convictions. Evolutionary psychologists cannot imagine what else could exist but functional specialization in the mind. Meanwhile, critics on the other side feel as if the bottom has been pulled out from their understanding of evolutionary psychology if it does not intend the attributes of modularity that it now seems to be backing away from. Both sides are left, understandably, exasperated and at a seeming impasse.</span></div><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #666666;"> </span></div><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"><span style="color: #666666;">The cost of this state of affairs cannot be over-stated. It has misled an entire generation of scientists about how to think about relationship between evolution and the mind, and it actively hinders progress in understanding how the mind works."</span></div></blockquote><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">An example of this problem is a recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The article, "<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/117/45/27767?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights</a>" is of value not only because its authors include some of the key names in the field of evolutionary psychology, but also because it represents the problematic over-valuing of these ideas into the social realm, where simpler and more empirically viable explanations from fields such as public health, social pscyhology, sociology, political science and cultural anthropology already exist. This is not to say that the article does not make some excellent points, such as how quarantine will negatively impact the gut microbiota of kids, which will impact their long-term health. The problem is its reductionist centering of evolutionary theory and its modular understanding of social life as the basis for making sense of human life. </div><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"> </div><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">The first line of the article says it all:</div><blockquote><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0">"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, and nothing about the human response to COVID-19 will either (p. 27768). Nothing! <br /></div></blockquote><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Evolving forward -- Network and more networks!<br /></h3><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSs_KpOtDfLoQZ-D-PxsNfciaVoE5DyySXHCBtSE4m6xjY8tK-zwcNjfnYJiBsSlZW4cmuYODq1jcAq9ZiMORE5Y5YFLLpXgFFnlM7jmrYdmtum1OKrr8CDs_W9I4sFhpJ7SzZoeDrz8Fx/s1412/Screenshot+2021-09-13+at+09.35.29.png" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1052" data-original-width="1412" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSs_KpOtDfLoQZ-D-PxsNfciaVoE5DyySXHCBtSE4m6xjY8tK-zwcNjfnYJiBsSlZW4cmuYODq1jcAq9ZiMORE5Y5YFLLpXgFFnlM7jmrYdmtum1OKrr8CDs_W9I4sFhpJ7SzZoeDrz8Fx/s320/Screenshot+2021-09-13+at+09.35.29.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12504" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Image by </span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/tops.12504" target="_blank">Bertolero, M. A., & Bassett, D. S. (2020)</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table>I cannot remember where, exactly, Richard Rorty stated it, but his points was this: philosophical arguments generally don't resolve with a winner, instead they get disgarded once they are no longer useful. "Modularity or not" seems to be losing steam as an argument -- and hopefully the antagonistic clash between opposing views will eventually lose sway over evolutionary psychology too. <p></p><p>What is replacing the "modularity or not" debate? That is not entirely clear, but one productive avenue is complex network modularity and, more generally, a complex systems modularity -- both of which have been around for a while and seem to be gaining ground. I cannot survey this research presently, except to offer a few articles to explore:</p><div class="gs_citr" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Favela, L. H., Amon, M. J., & van
Rooij, M. M. (2018). <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354317750775" target="_blank">The incommensurability of emergence and modularity in complex systems: A comment on Wastell </a>(2014). <i>Theory & Psychology</i>, <i>28</i>(4), 559-567.</span></span></div><div class="gs_citr" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="gs_citr" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Wastell, C. A., Purcell, Z., Howarth,
S., Paterson, W., & Slocombe, B. (2018). <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354318758213" target="_blank">The development of Complex
Emergent Modularity: A reply to Favela, Amon, & van Rooij (2018)</a>. <i>Theory & Psychology</i>, <i>28</i>(4), 568-571.</span></span></div><div class="gs_citr" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"> </span></span></div><div class="gs_citr" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;" tabindex="0"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Colombo, M. (2013). <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/670331" target="_blank">Moving forward (and beyond) the modularity debate: A network perspective.</a> <i>Philosophy of Science</i>, <i>80</i>(3), 356-377. <br /></span></span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Zerilli, J. (2019). <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-018-0309-7" target="_blank">Neural reuse and the modularity of mind: where to next for modularity?.</a> <i>Biological Theory</i>, <i>14</i>(1), 1-20. </span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Newman, M. E. (2006). <a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/103/23/8577.short" target="_blank">Modularity and community structure in networks</a>. <i>Proceedings of the national academy of sciences</i>, <i>103</i>(23), 8577-8582.</span></span></p><p>The other avenue would be to finally recognise that cognitive science <u>is</u> complexity science and to search for ways to integrate the various ideas and empirical evidence using a complex systems framework. Examples of this view (of which network modality is a part) include <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/embodied-cognition/" target="_blank">embodied cognition</a>, <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/connectionism/" target="_blank">connectionism</a> and <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02228/full" target="_blank">ecological psychology</a>, as well as as recasting cognition as complexity and challenging theoretical and methodlogical reductionism. Embodied mind resarch is very well known. The latter is a more general argument. See for example:</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Favela, L. H. (2020). <a href="https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcs.1525" target="_blank">Cognitive science as complexity science</a>. <i>Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science</i>, <i>11</i>(4), e1525.</span><span style="color: #bf9000;"> </span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Van Orden, G., & Stephen, D. G. (2012). <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01165.x" target="_blank">Is cognitive science usefully cast as complexity science?</a>. <i>Topics in cognitive science</i>, <i>4</i>(1), 3-6.</span></span></p><p>The utility of these alternative framings come with their own intellectual traps. All scientific ideas do. They are at least more interesting then telling me:</p><blockquote><p>"A key insight of evolutionary thinking is that—in contrast to the metaphor of the invisible hand—the pursuit of lower-level interests, such as short-term individual, corporate, partisan, or nationalistic interests, is far more likely to undermine than contribute to the global common good. . . . [As such,] treat differences in nation/state responses to COVID-19 as natural experiments in evolutionary processes by documenting different phylogenies of responses, measuring the efficacy of each, and then replicating successful approaches in necessary areas and future pandemics" (<a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/117/45/27767?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">Seitz et al, p. 27772</a>). </p></blockquote><p>If this is a major observation from a field some fifty years in the making, I think it is time to move on.<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="gs_citr" tabindex="0"><style>@font-face
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