Resources

Training/Workshop Opportunities

Santa Fe Institute Introduction to Agent Based Modeling. Click here to learn more.
Decision Analysis in R for Technologies in Health (DARTH) has publicly available workshops and helpful resources.

Supplementary Readings

Ethics: Best T, Sandikci B, Eisenstein D, Meltzer D. Managing Hospital Bed Capacity Through Partitioning Care into Focused Wings. SSRN Electron J. Published online December 14, 2012. doi:10.2139/SSRN.2191134

Ethics: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

Data-Oriented Design: Data-Oriented Design e-book

Data Visualization: Wickham H. A layered grammar of graphics. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 2010 Jan 1;19(1):3-28.

Best Practices in ABM: Giabbanelli PJ, Tison B, Keith J. The application of modeling and simulation to public health: Assessing the quality of Agent-Based Models for obesity. Simul Model Pract Theory. 2021;108:102268. doi:10.1016/J.SIMPAT.2020.102268

Best Practices in ABM: Grimm V, Railsback SF, Vincenot CE, Berger U, Gallagher C, DeAngelis DL, Edmonds B, Ge J, Giske J, Groeneveld J, Johnston AS. The ODD Protocol for Describing Agent-Based and Other Simulation Models: A Second Update to Improve Clarity, Replication, and Structural Realism. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. doi:10.18564/jasss.4259.SIMPAT.2020.102268

Best Practices in ABM: Hammond RA. Appendix A: Considerations and Best Practices in Agent-Based Modeling to Inform Policy. Assessing the use of agent-based models for tobacco regulation 2015 Jul 17. National Academies Press (US)