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hello everyone and welcome to the

complexity Explorer tutorial on the

fundamentals in NetLogo in this short

little tutorial I'm going to be taking

you through how to actually understand

how to build an agent-based model and

specifically within the language of NetLogo

and so we'll be going all the way

from what is in Agent base model what's

its purpose and what's its goal very

quickly because its more focused on the

practice to actually how to build a

model and actually put it together and

get all the components in the right

spots to actually very briefly at the

end exporting the the results of a model

and looking at them in something like an

Excel or R or some package along those

lines right so our goal is over just a

few short lessons to really get you all

the way through understanding what a

model is and how you play around with it

in NetLogo to building your own model

and doing our best ability to get you

that quickly now how is this gonna be

structured well this course is very

structured so that you should be

following along on your machine at home

on your computer working along with the

tutorial in the discussion that we have

right and so you'll be able to actually

try things out and really play with them

Im a big fan of believing that you learn

through doing in many respects and so

you'll be able to work alongside me as I

go through and demonstrate the

capabilities and in the NetLogo

programming language right and then in

the end we're actually gonna take

everything we've learned where we've

explored a bunch of little components

like what is an agent what is a patch

and what is the link and we're gonna put

them all together to actually build a

model together as over these videos

right and we'll get to the point where

you can actually generate some output

and look at the output right and you'll

be doing that kind of in synchrony with

me

right and then at the very end in the

conclusion I've written up a homework

assignment that essentially is without

it doesn't have any of the data attached to

it but instead just has a series of

goals for you to kind of create that

actually reproduces in essence a basic

version of a model that I used for a

publication in

management science a top journal in the

business management field right and so

you can actually see how that model was

created see the steps in creating that

model and I will provide you with

step-by-step code that kind of shows you

the homework right so you kind of get an

example of how to build up a model from

scratch now if you're interested in you

really like what you see in this

tutorial I highly recommend you check

out the agent base for the introduction

the agent-based modeling course the full

course that I do on complexity Explorer

every summer right and it really kind of

goes into more detail about what's going

on and the theory behind what's

happening within these models that we're

going to disrupt in this course and

it'll also provide you with a lot more

tools and what we're gonna have time to

talk to you and it's just this short

little bit of course so that's the the

basic outline for the course and that's

the basic description what we're gonna

cover and let's get right in and we're

going to start talking about what an

agent-based model is and and talk about

what different types of agent-based models

models look like in the NetLogo

programming environment thanks everybody