{"id":154,"date":"2018-03-29T22:15:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2018-03-29T22:15:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:15:50","slug":"historyquant-update-november-2016-to-january-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"HistoryQuant Update\u2014November 2016 to January 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(It has been over a year since the last update, but I needed to temporarily reduce activities to spend more time dealing with family health issues. Hence the update hiatus.)<\/p>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>There have been two areas of special effort. The first is to develop a generic but unified language that describes a broad range of phenomena, ranging from history to planetary processes. The second is to delve further into physical and geographic data and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Recent work has focused upon entering more data into the Colossus world history simulator and analyzing the relations between additional dynasties.<\/p>\n<h3>Presentations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Colossus History Grid: integrating network and spatial models of world history,\u201d <i>Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association\u2014Beyond Social Science History: Knowledge in an Interdisciplinary World<\/i>, Chicago, Illinois, 17-20 November 2016<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLessons About Historical, Economic and Resource Bubbles from the Rise and Fall of Spain\u2019s Golden New World,\u201d <i>World History Association Annual Conference<\/i>, Boston, Massachusetts, 22 &#8211; 24 June 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWorkshop: Feeding Empires\u2014Quantitative, Digital &amp; Graphic Simulations for History Using Food Cases,\u201d <i>World History Association Annual Conference<\/i>, Boston, Massachusetts, 22 &#8211; 24 June 2017.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEmergy and Efficiency Analysis of Historical Bubbles,\u201d <i>10th Biennial Emergy Research Conference<\/i>, Gainesville, Florida, January 25-27 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(It has been over a year since the last update, but I needed to temporarily reduce activities to spend more time dealing with family health issues. Hence the update hiatus.) Summary There have been two areas of special effort. The first is to develop a generic but unified language that describes a broad range of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historyquant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}