NetLogo: a powerful platform for agent-based models

A quick break from my usual R-centric posts to toot the horn of one of my other favorite pieces of freeware, NetLogo, which “is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment.” If you are interested in modeling complex systems and spatially-explicit behavior or processes, you should definitely take the time to (at least) download NetLogo and browse a few of the many example models.

RStudio is RStupendous

I am a sucker for beautiful applications. The latest R-related application to catch my eye is RStudio. RStudio™ is a free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for R.