{"product_id":"atlas-of-forecasts-isbn-9780262045957","title":"Atlas of Forecasts","description":"\u003cb\u003eForecasting the future with advanced data models and visualizations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo envision and create the futures we want, society needs an appropriate understanding of the likely impact of alternative actions. Data models and visualizations offer a way to understand and intelligently manage complex, interlinked systems in science and technology, education, and policymaking. \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e, from the creator of \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Science\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, shows how we can use data to predict, communicate, and ultimately attain desirable futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing advanced data visualizations to introduce different types of computational models, \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates how models can inform effective decision-making in education, science, technology, and policymaking. The models and maps presented aim to help anyone understand key processes and outcomes of complex systems dynamics, including which human skills are needed in an artificial intelligence-empowered economy; what progress in science and technology is likely to be made; and how policymakers can future-proof regions or nations. This Atlas offers a driver's seat-perspective for a test-drive of the future.Foreword\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Introduction and History\u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Methods\u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Models in Action\u003cbr\u003ePart 4: Science Maps in Action\u003cbr\u003ePart 5: Envisioning Desirable Futures\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eCredits\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cb\u003e2022 PROSE Award Winner, Engineering \u0026amp; Technology\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"[Börner's] sumptuous, detailed book tackles issues of error and bias head-on...\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—New Scientist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003edelivers peer-reviewed and edited articles, tutorials, and case studies that provide unmatched professional development for forecasters.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e is a sumptuous work that will give modelers and forecasters the perspectives and intellectual repower to deal with the challenges of uncertain futures.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Foresight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Börner, a professor of information and library sciences and a noted expert on information visualization and bibliometrics, admirably accomplishes the enormous task of distilling the breadth and depth of computational modeling. The text provides an overview of modeling methods followed by examples of modeling as applied in science, technology, and policy studies at micro and macro scales. A richly illustrated set of \"science maps\" from various disciplines forms the bulk of this atlas. As a highly informational resource on applications of modeling methods, the volume is best suited for academic collections with broad focus on computing, library and information science, and the computational social sciences.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e–CHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The future is not waiting to reveal itself. It’s all around us, in the shifting and changing consequences of every one of the quintillion interactions going on every second, everywhere. We make the future, unknowing of the consequences. If we were able to model and predict the result of all those interactions, we could reshape them and generate a future we want. This magnificent \u003cu\u003eAtlas\u003c\/u\u003e is a first step toward being able to do that.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJames Burke, author of \u003ci\u003eConnections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e is an amazing and incredibly important resource. To understand its power, just consider how modern weather reports merge complex models and immense data into understandable forecasts that mobilize the entire citizenry to take coordinated action—and now imagine that power applied to all of societies’ grand challenges!”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlex “Sandy” Pentland, MIT; co-author of \u003ci\u003eBuilding the New Economy: Data as Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e is mind-boggling—parading the multiple dimensions of our future, and the rich set of tools and data that data science has assembled, so that we can grasp the destiny of the natural, social, and technological systems that surround us. Richly illustrated, colorful, and rigorous, this Atlas takes us on an eye-opening journey.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAlbert-László Barabási, Northeastern University, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Formula: The Universal Laws of Success\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“New mapping methodologies are becoming critical as we now have 24\/7 access to real-world sensor data, digitally born data, and unprecedented data-processing, modeling, and visualization capabilities. Our challenge today is how to convert this data toward enabling the transformation needed to fight the interconnected climate and inequality crises.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eOlga Subirós, Olga Subirós Studio; curator of the \u003ci\u003eBig Bang Data\u003c\/i\u003e exhibition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e is an intoxicating cocktail of ideas, images, maps, and data visualizations, which inspires the reader to make creative contributions. The entire \u003ci\u003eAtlas\u003c\/i\u003e series—including \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Science\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e—is an unmatched map of our current realities and future directions.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBen Shneiderman, University of Maryland; author of \u003ci\u003eThe New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e, Katy Börner has once again delivered an encyclopedic intellectual tour de force. Using the most advanced mathematical and computational analyses and tools, this \u003cu\u003eAtlas\u003c\/u\u003e will join its predecessors as a superb and influential seminal reference volume for decision-makers, scientists, scholars, and students. If \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Science\u003c\/i\u003e showed us ‘what we know’ and \u003cu\u003eAtlas of Knowledge\u003c\/u\u003e showed us ‘how to visualize it,’ then this fitting final volume of the \u003cu\u003eAtlas\u003c\/u\u003etrilogy shows us ‘why it matters,’ with its sophisticated application to real-world challenges.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMichael A. McRobbie, Eighteenth President of Indiana University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Building meaningful future scenarios is both an art and a science. \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Forecasts\u003c\/i\u003e provides clear and thorough explanations of the leading methods for producing realistic visions, while offering crucial insights into how to generate compelling visualizations to effectively communicate the future to the present.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eParag Khanna, founder of FutureMap; author of \u003ci\u003eConnectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Katy Börner has designed and delivered a remarkably integrated compendium of approaches to predicting and implementing desirable futures across many domains. Her broad survey of alternative models is compelling and practically valuable, and the model visualizations are insightful and truly beautiful. Everyone needs to have this book.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eWilliam B. Rouse, Georgetown University; author of \u003ci\u003eComputing Possible Futures: Model-Based Explorations of “What If?”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“All of us in the business of making judgments about what matters in science owe a debt of gratitude to Katy Börner and her colleagues for their extraordinary work on visualization and sense-making. The third installment of the \u003cu\u003eAtlas\u003c\/u\u003etrilogy is a book of rare clarity and beauty that is also informative and practical. A monumental achievement.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSusan M. Fitzpatrick, President of the James S. McDonnell Foundation\u003c\/b\u003eKaty Börner is Victor H. Yngve Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Information Science in the Departments of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Information Science at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where she is also founding director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlas of Knowledge: Anyone Can Map\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by the MIT Press). 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