{"id":747,"date":"2020-11-17T22:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T22:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrpseries.com\/?page_id=747"},"modified":"2020-11-18T10:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T10:56:49","slug":"episode-8-making-modeling-accessible","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mrpseries.com\/wordpress\/episode-8-making-modeling-accessible\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 8: Making Modeling Accessible"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\"\"The MRP team meets again in 2018 at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, & Simulation Center, to field test a new simulation platform that allows non-modelers to build simulations. The programmers built the platform using agent-based models that use artificial intelligence in order to examine social systems and social theories, and developed a web-based simulation development environment. The experts worked to remove as many barriers to modeling for those with no computer programming experience, in order for them to effectively create models. <\/span><\/p>

\"\"To test their work, they invite a religious studies scholar with no background in computer programming to build a simulation from scratch called the Radicalization and Violent Extremism Model. By using a religion expert to simulate a theory, the MRP team finds that the non-modeler was able to successfully build a complicated model relatively quickly. <\/span><\/p>

\"\"The team travels to Boston, MA to host the annual meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion. They present the conclusions of their three-year project and the insights they have gleaned into religious social processes. They share how they wanted to expand and adapt their models and craft a narrative around the information that the simulation is generating. <\/span><\/p>

\"\"They followed through on their original promise to deliver models, a non-programmatic simulation platform, and to communicate with the general public about the promise of applying modeling and simulation to the study of religion.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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