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We are building a simulation of agriculture in southern Ontario for policy makers and the lay public alike to be able to edit to invent and investigate hypotheses. Our perspective on the problem is holistic: we see agriculture as simultaneously economic, ecological, cultural and as involving both urban humans, rural humans, and animal life, and we think that anything less than modelling all aspects of the world will miss critical decision boundaries.

Check out our gameplan:

• Architecture
• Explaining Ourselves (can anyone think of a pithier link title?)
• Modelling
• Datasets
• Visualizations
• Statistics

Get hacking, meditate on our Philosophy or add to our References.

There are very disorganized notes scattered on these shared docs which should be read, digested, and then merged into this wiki or tossed: http://piratepad.net/xQTNPECqcj, http://piratepad.net/uud1vW5W5e

Our allies,

• SiG@UWaterloo
• The UW Games Institute
• MaRS Data Catalyst - a source of open data and direction for application
• Dawn Parker and her SLUCE II land use simulation
• The McConnell Foundation
• WICI

and some of our inspiration

• School of Data
• The Global Land Project
• CorridorDesign
• CoMSES Network out of Arizona State University
• The People who lobbied for data.gc.ca

When we want to get off github, know that this wiki itself is simply a git repo with URL https://github.com/majdal/modex.wiki.git and the issue tracker can be extracted with the REST API (this ruby project is a one-click export solution).

Wiki syntax protips: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet