Civitas Systems — Atlas writing https://civitassystems.com/atlas/ Essays and notes from the Civitas Systems Atlas — systems science, provenance, complexity, and the methods behind the practice. en-us One Number, Fully Loaded https://civitassystems.com/atlas/one-number.html https://civitassystems.com/atlas/one-number.html One real number from my published work — 73% — unfolded all the way down: the claim verbatim, the paper, the data under it, the estimates it leans on, and what it's for. Every System Has an Address https://civitassystems.com/atlas/essays/dimensionality-of-systems.html https://civitassystems.com/atlas/essays/dimensionality-of-systems.html Any system — a pendulum, an economy, the climate — can be located along three dimensions: structure, temporality, and chaos. The essay behind the explorer. Seventeen Goals, One System https://civitassystems.com/atlas/essays/sdg-nexus.html https://civitassystems.com/atlas/essays/sdg-nexus.html Modeling the SDG nexus as a complex coupled system — cross-impact network analysis and system dynamics, from two 2019 papers with Bernard Amadei.