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Complex Systems Summer School 2019-Social Shuttle Times

2019-06-26T00:22:06Z

ChrisBoyc:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2019}}

==Social Shuttle Times with Lorenzo==

A shuttle will be available to get you to and from downtown Santa Fe on Friday evening and to other venues during these last two weeks

Shuttle schedule:

'''SATURDAY, JUNE 22'''

'''TO DOWNTOWN SANTA FE DURING THE DAY:''' 9:00 am - 2:30 pm

Pick Up Rotation: IAIA on the hour 9, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2

Water & Sandoval Downtown Stop: on the half hour 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30 with last pick up 2:30.

'''TO DOWNTOWN SANTA FE DURING AT NIGHT:''' 10:00 pm - 12:30 am

Pick Up Rotation: IAIA on the hour 10, 11, 12

Water & Sandoval Downtown Stop: on the half hour 10:30, 11:30, with last pick up 12:30

Please be prompt to pickup locations, as the shuttle will need to keep a tight schedule in order to stay on time. We also want to be respectful of Lorenzo's time, especially with the late-night pickups.

In the event a shuttle is overloaded, a to-and-from trip ("orbit") should be approximately 45 minutes.

'''Reminder''' Uber and Lyft are also available and efficient ways of getting around.

'''TUESDAY, JUNE 25'''

'''TO ZAFARANO SHOPPING AREA (TARGET and MORE):''' 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Shuttle sign-up:
7:00 pm
* Jackie
* Emily
* Elissa
* Pablo
* Mackenzie
* Dee
* Wenqian
* Andrew
* Pam
* Anshuman

Larremore Workshop: How To Rank Things & Pairwise Comparisons 2019

2019-06-24T02:46:13Z

ChrisBoyc:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2019}}

Dan Larremore Workshop

Monday, June 24 @ 3:15pm in the conference room.

During lectures on networks and hierarchies, we discussed how a network representing the outcomes of discrete choices—Which wine is preferred? Swipe right or swipe left? Which team won the match?—can be used to find a ranking. In this workshop, we'll apply these methods by tasting, comparing, and ranking dozes of different salsas to find the most delicious. We'll also discuss topics like tournament design, adaptive tournaments, and the difference between a marketing study of salsa quality and a bracket-based tournament like the World Cup.

LARREMORE WORKSHOP LOTTO SIGNUP!!

# JP
# Andrew Gillreath-Brown
# Ritwika
# Ernest
# Aabir
# Alec
# Brennan
# Fabian
# Elissa
# Erwin
# Andrea
# Hunter
# Ian
# Pam
# Jessica Lee
# Dries
# Yuka
# Arta
# Kazu
# Chris Quarles
# Bhargav
# Emily
# Luther
# Ignacio
# Koissi
# Bhartendu
# Jeongki
# Toni
# Dakota
# Jackie
# Kyle
# Chris B-J

Complex Systems Summer School 2019-Tutorials

2019-06-19T16:00:32Z

ChrisBoyc:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2019}}

Please use this space to organize any tutorial you would like to offer your peers. It is useful to keep these in chronological order of occurrence (or at least proposed times) and include the time in the title, so that people can see what fits in their schedule at a glance by looking at the table of contents.

= Upcoming Tutorials =

==Agent-Based Modelling of Complex Systems - [https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php/Patrick_Steinmann Patrick Steinmann] (07:00 PM 6/18)==

Agent-based modelling can be a powerful for modelling complex system problems. But what *is* agent-based modelling? And how do we go about it in a structured and scientific way? And once we've made a model... what do we do with it? I have a background in policy analysis and simulation studies, and am offering this tutorial for those interested in using ABM (specifically NetLogo, as it is very accessible) in current or future work. I will cover some basic systems simulation theory, go over one structured method of making ABMs (from Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems, eds. van Dam, Nikolic, and Lukszo), and finally look at some ways the finished model could be used/explored - specifically, sensitivity analysis and scenario discovery. We will also briefly look at how NetLogo can be connected to tools such as Python, R, and Mathematica, and what possibilities that opens up.

I would also be glad to consult on any projects involving ABM/systems simulation.

=== Suggested Date and Time ===
Tuesday 18JUN, 7:00 PM, lecture hall.

=== Interested Participants ===
Sign up below in the bulleted list below if you are interested. If you have experience with ABM and would like to share your expertise, please feel free to join. You can add more slots as needed:
* Patrick Steinmann (presenter)
* Jeongki Lim
* Dries Daems
* Bhartendu Pandey
* Travis
* Pam
* Arta
* Ludvig
* Ian
* Wenqian
* Jordi
* Elissa
* Bakus
* Andrew
* Luther

If you can't make it, feel free to come chat with [https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php/Patrick_Steinmann me].

==Classical Hypothesis Testing- The Course You Think You Don't Need - John S. Schuler (7:00 PM 6/20) NEW TIME==

Classical statistics does not get much love these days with all the newer techniques. While I applaud these new techniques and use them myself, I think there is value in these older methods. In particular, classical statistics is an excellent framework for thinking about replication. I envision this as the first in a series of three talks but for now I am announcing one. I will cover hypothesis testing with minimal prerequisites. My focus will be on the logic behind hypothesis testing and common misunderstandings thereof.

=== Suggested Date and Time ===
I am willing to move this if desired. I will find a classroom and update this space.

=== Interested Participants ===
Sign up is not required but it would be helpful to have some idea.
* Patrick
* Kate
* Jeongki
* Pam
* Arta
* Shihui
* Yuka

==Data Visualization and Aesthetics - [https://github.com/eonadler/Data-Visualization/blob/master/Matplotlib%20and%20Data%20Visualization%20Tutorial.ipynb Ethan Nadler] (8:00 PM 6/19)==

This will be a tutorial/"formal" discussion (i.e. with slides) aimed at data visualization in science, and its relation to art and aesthetics. It will roughly be organized as follows, depending on interest:

1. Overview/live-coding tutorial based on a Python data visualization workshop I've run in the past;

2. Discussion of specific examples: each attendee will send a favorite plot/visualization that *they have made* (likely from past research), and we'll discuss each as a group;

3. Discussion of general principles: interesting topics include, but are not limited to:
* What makes a plot beautiful?
* Do scientific data visualization and art have the same aesthetic aims?
* Are aesthetic biases reflected in scientific data visualization? (If so, how?)

=== Suggested Date and Time ===
8:00 PM on Wednesday, 6/19.

=== Interested Participants ===
* Ethan Nadler (presenter)
* Daniel Borrero
* Arta Cika
* Kenzie Givens
* Catherine Brinkley (but only if time changes... I have to pick up kids at 5.30pm)
* Patrick
* Erwin
* Kate
* Bakus
* Bhartendu
* Ernest
* Travis
* Pam
* Henri
* Ludvig
* Ignacio
* Mikaela
* Winnie
* Andrew
* John Malloy
* Ian
* Dries
* Chris B-J

== Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics in Python - [[Bhargav_Srinivasa_Desikan|Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan]] ==

I thought that doing an introductory level tutorial in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics in Python would be useful/fun - it usually adds a very informative level of complexity to projects, even when it isn't the primary mode of inquiry. If you don't have textual data, I can also guide you through the process of mining data off the internet, either through web scraping or twitter - you can also do cool stuff like mailing entire WhatsApp chat histories to yourself, which means we could also do some funky meta Santa Fe WhatsApp chat analysis!

I've conducted similar tutorials before ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWSs325tGoc&t=70s PyData LA 2018], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkAFJwi-G98&t=6s PyData Berlin 2017]), and I also share all my material on GitHub in the form of [https://github.com/bhargavvader/personal/tree/master/notebooks/text_analysis_tutorial Jupyter Notebooks].
I've linked the videos and code so that you can have a brief look to see if it's stuff you might be interested in.

I'd be doing:

* finding text data
* pre-processing text data
* identifying your problem
* part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition
* topic modelling
* text classification
* text generation with neural nets
* word embeddings

=== Preparing for the tutorial ===

Following the instructions under the setup section in [https://github.com/bhargavvader/personal/tree/master/notebooks/text_analysis_tutorial this link] will help a bunch! I will spend the first 20 minutes helping with setup before moving on. If you would want to run all the code in the tutorial while I am, you would need [[pythonhttps://www.python.org/downloads/|python]] and [https://jupyter.org/install jupyter] installed.

=== Suggested Date and Time ===
The tutorial will be from 4-6 pm on Monday (17th June), in the main lecture hall.
I'll be happy to do smaller more detailed sessions and maybe a second tutorial if folks want it!

=== Interested Participants ===
(if anyone would like to conduct the tutorial with me or add more to it, very happy to collaborate!) 

# Bhargav (presenter) 
# Arta Cika
# Xin Ran
# Daniel Borrero
# Jackie Brown
# Pam Mantri
# Dee Romo
# Jeongki Lim
# Ernest Aigner
# Robert Coulter
# Winnie Poel
# Travis Moore
# Pablo M. Flores
# Catherine Brinkley
# Andrew Gillreath-Brown
# Kate
# Bakus
# Dries
# Bhartendu
# Kenzie Givens
# Wenqian
# Jordi
# Elissa

=== Note ===

This would require pretty basic python programming skills, but I'll be walking everyone through the code. Even if you can't code it might be useful to know what kind of problems you can solve, and I'd be happy to link to resources to learning enough python to get started on your own. There has been interest in doing a general Machine Learning tutorial too: we can talk about this during the text tutorial to figure out what might be most useful for everyone!

I'm happy to chat with folks for suggestions on if they'd want more/less than what has been described!

([[Bhargav_Srinivasa_Desikan|this]] is what I look like if you want to find me)

==Distribution Fitting and Maximum Likelihood Estimation - [https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php/Christopher_Quarles Chris Quarles] (2:00 PM, Thursday 6/20)==

Researchers and statistics students regularly assume that their data is normally distributed, and network degree distributions are often assumed to follow a power law. These are typically incorrect assumptions. It is important to examine the ''shape'' of the data. And, if the data reasonably fits a nice, parametric shape, we might want to infer the best parameter(s) for that shape. For a power law, the parameter is the exponent. For normally distributed data, we might want to infer the mean and standard deviation. This can give insight about the process that generated the data and the analyses that we can do with it. Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) is the workhorse method to do this distribution fitting.

In this workshop, you will learn how to fit distributions using MLE, and when it might be useful. I'll go over the basic ideas behind distribution fitting, including likelihood and log-likelihood. We will work through the calculation of a maximum likelihood estimator together, and talk about how to choose the best-fit distibution. You'll get the opportunity to do some hands-on calculation and find a best fit distribution for a dataset.

You'll want to bring a pencil and paper/notebook, and a computer with some basic statistical software that you know how to use (R, Python, Excel, etc.). You also will need to be able to take derivatives to get the most of the workshop.

=== Suggested Date and Time ===
Thursday, June 20th at 2:00 PM. 
This week is filling up with tutorials. If there are enough people interested, I can do this again during week 3. Text me on Slack if you can't make this, and would rather do it the following week.

=== Interested Participants ===
* Jeongki Lim
* Jessica Lee
* Bhartendu
* Henri
* Wenqian
* Arta

==Kirsten Moy, 7:00pm, Tuesday June 17==

[[Kirsten Moy]] will be leading a tutorial/discussion about her work on complexity in community development. Come on along

From her description:

A review of highlights from four other case studies in addition to Detroit on the utilization of complexity thinking in community development. Case studies include a microenterprise development organization in the San Francisco area that works from an ecosystem perspective; a national organization that brings NGOs and City Government together in a dozen cities to create greater financial security for low and moderate-income families; an organization that provides support to family networks in different cities to collectively bring people out of poverty; and the only community revitalization nonprofit in the US (now in 18 cities) that consciously and intentionally works from a complexity science framework.

Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity for participants to present their specific questions to the researcher and the group.

Please sign up so we have some idea of who will be around and can choose the appropriate room

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# Ahyan Panjwani
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# Ignacio
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= Past Tutorials =
== Nonlinear Dynamics Q&A I w/ D. Borrero (6/10) ==

I've taught upper division/intro graduate level Nonlinear Dynamics a couple of times before. Given the quick pace of some of the lectures by the SFI faculty and people's various levels of familiarity with this material, I'd be glad to lead a couple of review/question and answer/clarification sessions for any of the Nonlinear Dynamics lectures (Liz Bradley, Josh Garland, Dave Feldman, Vicky Yang) if anybody is interested. I would also be glad to consult on any projects involving dynamical systems. The idea is to keep it pretty informal, low key, and organic. All levels of expertise welcome!

If you can't make it, feel free to come chat with [https://wiki.santafe.edu/index.php/Daniel_Borrero me].

Informal discussion of various topics in Nonlinear Dynamics. Topics covered included:
* Taylor series and linearization of nonlinear systems
* Why the stability of the fixed point has to do with the slope of map at the fixed point (i.e., f'(x*))
* How to think about dynamical systems with continuous time systems ("flows") that are governed by differential equations in 1-dimension
* Why trajectories in chaotic systems diverge exponentially and where exactly a Lyapunov exponent comes from
* Floquet multipliers and diverge of trajectories in maps
* Where the quadratic term in the logistic map comes from

== Nonlinear Dynamics Q&A II w/ D. Borrero (6/15) ==
Took an in-depth look at dynamics and bifurcations in 1D flows

==Nonlinear Dynamics Q&A III w/ D. Borrero (6/16) ==
Informal discussion of various topics in Nonlinear Dynamics. Topics covered included:
* 1D maps
* Period doubling route to chaos

2019 Dome Showing 7:00PM

2019-06-18T23:56:07Z

ChrisBoyc:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2019}}

'''7:00 PM Dome Showing''' 
Please sign up to reserve a seat. 
Limit of 33 for each showing but there are three (3) showings: 
7:00 PM and 8:00 PM and 9:00 PM, so everyone will get a seat to the show.
 

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#Jessica Brumley
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#Jordi Piñero
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Zefferman Workshop 2019

2019-06-18T21:08:47Z

ChrisBoyc:

{{Complex Systems Summer School 2019}}

Signup page for Matt Zefferman's workshop!

How do researchers reason through the steps of making evolutionary models? Here is your chance to try. On Monday Matt Zefferman will introduce evolutionary game theory and on Wednesday Liz Hobson will describe her empirical work on hierarchy and parakeet aggression. However, there currently isn't a theory about what hierarchical aggression strategies we should expect to evolve under different conditions. Matt and Liz have been thinking about modeling this and thought it would be a useful example for CSSS students interested in walking through the modeling process. When canonical models are presented in papers, coursework or textbooks there is often little information about how the sausage was made. Much like sausage-making - model-making is often not pretty. But hopefully you get delicious sausage at the end of the process. Also, like sausage-making most modeling is done in private. This will be Liz and Matt's first attempt to try it in public. The effort might fail spectacularly (this often happens more often than not), but going through the process can still be useful.

Limited to 20 spots, so we're going to run a lotto to decide seats. If you're interested, sign up here!

# JP
# Pam Mantri
# Henri
# Arta
# Elissa
# Levi
# Alex
# Emily Coco
# Gen
# Dries
# Andrew Gillreath-Brown
# Harun
# Mackenzie
# Jessica Brumley
# Ritwika
# Erwin
# Mark Chu
# Mikaela
# Ian
# Fabian
# Toni
# Adam
# Kyle
# Jessica Lee
# Pablo M. Flores
# Jack Shaw
# Chris B-J
# Shihui
# Aabir
# Marjorie Ylisiurua

Zefferman Workshop 2019

2019-06-18T21:07:02Z

ChrisBoyc: