Ednan Ochieng
My Fall Projects
Project Model Page For the fall module project, my partner Gustavo and I decided to model Demographic Transition, a theory made to explain the phenomenon of increasing population in human societies. This project challenged us to make a have= had + change model. This means that the current condition the of a variable is equal to what it was plus an alteration that occurred. In our project, the 'change' is the amount of people being added to a population, the 'had' is the initial amount of humans, and the 'have' is the current amount of people. Project Download
Modles in Windows Excel Spreedsheets
I used Windows Excel for gathering data for random occurances. In the following projects, I recorded all the new information I learned, made a spreadsheet that flips a coin and give a random result, and made some basic iteration expamples of the rule Have= had + change. The coin would either land heads or tails and the Excel model would record a number of of each occurrence. It then takes that data and make them into percentages.
Models in Vensim
Vensim was different from Excel. Excel can do multiple iterations of the multiple functions all at one time. Vensim can display graphs and charts of data of one fuction rather than just numbers.
Models in Agent Cube
Agent Cubes can not do as many functions at a time and it does not have as intricate graphs ans Vensim, so why use it? Agant Cubes shows a story. In Excel shows you numbers and percents, Vensim will show you graphs and relationships, but ony Angent Cubes can show the model in action.
My Spring Projects
Micheal and I manipulated some given code and with the help of staff members and othe apprentices we were able to create a model of how a forest fire would realistically burn.
We also learned about parallel computing. We took notes, examples, and recorded down information from our own research.