Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies @AIAS_dk
Complex systems simulation
computational social science
digital humanities (archaeology)
#abm #python
We've got Nathaniel Durant talking about modelling forts in Scythia Minor
Romans liked to put their forts on higher land and close to major water sources but not too close to small streams (flood risk?)
Aug 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#LimesCongress2022 starting strong with digital applications to Limes studies.
So far lots of cool remote sensing and predictive modelling.
"Tobler" is the king!
In an incredible turn of events I'm now listening about the @CEIPAC_UB database. The very same one I worked on for many years 😅
Aug 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
We are thrilled to announce that the very first #ABM in #archaeology textbook is now
▶️ Practical, hands-on tutorials designed for not-computational folk.
▶️ Algorithmic zoo, with all the most common ways to model, well, everything.
▶️ GIS, Networks and Data Science chapters.
Nov 12, 2019 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Thread: there was a pretty impressive backlash against today's long read in the guardian about the idea that by studying large, long term trends in human history one may identify patterns in human societies. Patterns that may hold for the future. 1/
theguardian.com/technology/201…
I'm highly enthusiastic about this idea (and especially the formal modelling element). In particular, I see it as a counterbalance against history as "one damn thing after another". I thought it may be interesting to debate some of the criticisms I saw today and in the past.
