#1324: Putting the Data in MoDa: Integrating Agent-Based Modeling, Quantitative Data Analysis, and Teacher Responsivity to Investigate Complex Phenomena

This demo introduces key enhancements to MoDa: A free, open-source web based system designed to support students in making sense of complex systems. MoDa is a domain-specific, block-based computational modeling and analysis tool that allows students to build models side-by-side to real-world data. Our latest enhancements include integrating quantitative data in the system using the Common Online Data Analysis Platform and Activity Player to support structured data-rich investigations, allowing students to use a wider variety of real-world data sources to refine their model toward reproducing important features of system behavior both qualitatively, by reproducing important visual and dynamic behaviors, and quantitatively by allowing closer comparison of patterns, relationships, and variability.