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Just working through the basic tutorial
In Run Control
I cant change the "entry initialization data", always reverts to "use active dataset".

We're on the same wavelength here! I have been amazed at what people try to do with a spreadsheet! (and usually when more appropriate tools are available.) Some of them can make the paradigm shift and take up a new investment in learning SD. Most get lost and persist with their spreadsheets. I find ...

I agree SD is NOT a substitute for spreadsheet modeling. My suggestion to "sell SD" was to "START with the familiar". Its about building a bridge to the SD concept. One will quickly discover the limitations to the spreadsheet and can move to SD where appropriate. I find the oppos...

"selling" modeling is a very dangerous concept. Look how the Climate Change debate has been oversold, become an epistemological debate and derailed - almost fatally. Modeling can provide insights rather than predictions. The insights are only useful to the extent that they can help guide a...