Example of a Bathtub overflow without using an If-Then-Else statement.

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The city of Bergen has a goal of becoming fossil-free in 2030. How do we get there? Some weeks ago, local experts from different domains came together and developed a causal loop diagram (CLD). This will form the skeleton for the modelling hackathon.

Bill Braun's version from the HPSIG wiki.

A model of the influences for Congress Creating Legislation.

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Just some thoughts for Runy.

While these pictures represent very different things there is a common essence.

The typical problem solving cycle.

A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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A spatially aware, agent based model of disease spread. There are three classes of people: susceptible (healthy), infected (sick and infectious), and recovered (healthy and temporarily immune).

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Our actions are based on our beliefs and the results of those actions are the basis for our beliefs. The difficulty we create for ourselves is that we make assumptions as to how to interpret the results we select based on our beliefs. As a result we are often operating on a flawed perspective of reality.

Population Growth in an Agrarian Society with the addition of agriculture.

How to create  fixed random variable which is set at the beginning of the simulation.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

Demo of changing vector length on the fly.

Model is created by Gene Bellinger. Original model can be accessed from https://insightmaker.com/insight/2249/Adjusting-the-Shower-SFD.

My first relationship map which demonstrates the build out of the relationship options for a project which is behind schedule.

Once the strategy has been developed it's up to the Stakeholders who own the segments of the revised model to implement it so a new pattern of behavior is created thus effecting the desired situation.

Cloud example. If you really want clouds a sources in your model it's pretty easy to create one.

This is a template which one might use as a basis for creating Insight Maker Relationship models. Links have default style of the blue ones in the diagram. The easiest way to get the red dashed links is to CTRL+d to duplicate them and then connect where appropriate.

The boundary defines the extent of the system.

Some people have found it easier to communicate interactions and their implications with Connection Circles rather than Causal Loop Diagrams.

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The typical approach to dealing with situations. We simply want them to go away.

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Yesterday's actions are responsible for the world we experience today. And today's actions are responsible for the world that we will experience tomorrow. The "Creating the Future" model is intended to provide a better sense of the common process associated with the unexpected unfolding of the future..