Kumu Loop Identification
How many are there really?
Welcome to another of SystemsWiki’s Musings exploring how a deeper understanding of relationships and their implications can enable more effective action.
Once upon a time, and no this is not a fairy tale, I recycled a nice model presenting the implications of unwanted births, abortion, and sex education as it seemed like a marvelous example to demonstrate storytelling in Kumu. It was such a marvelous example I labeled it “Storytelling 101.”
When I became fascinated with “Cauzality” if figured I should implement the same model so I could look at the loops as they were automatically identified. Once I finished implementing the model I was a bit in shock at Cauzality told me there were 22 loops in the model though I had only identified 13 of them in the Kumu model. Initially, I thought I had broken Cauzality somehow. As a check, I implemented the same model in “Insight Maker” as a test. When Insight Maker also indicated there were 22 loops I was a bit less disturbed, though only for a short time.
I found myself in a situation where every model I implemented in Kumu had to also be implemented in Cauzatlity to see if I missed anything. It didn't take long for this to become terribly annoying. This moved me to watch several YouTube videos to “Detect Cycle in Directed Graph, and attempt to implement what they presented in “Python.” Since 40+ years ago I wrote a lot of code so how difficult could this be? It turned out it was sufficiently difficult so after about a week I gave up in frustration, though still annoyed about implementing things in Kumu and Cauzality. You can review my modeling preferences in “Meaning & Understanding.”
A few days ago my frustration got to a point where I went back to a renewed attempt to develop a Python program to identify the loops in a Kumu project, and this time I succeeded. Please watch the following video and you can download the program at the link below.
What perspectives do you have that might improve the understanding?
Link List…
Storytelling 101 a Kumu Project by Gene Bellinger
SystemsWiki Public Folder for download of kloops2.py Python file
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