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12/10/2019 | Blogs, Modeling tips & tricks, Videos

Behind the scenes: 5.3 color themes

Ben here to tell you about my first large project at Lumina — developing new color schemes for the Analytica 5.3 release. One of our primary goals was improving the look and feel…

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12/09/2019 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Energy & power, Environment & climate

How can decision analysis help climate change?

Lumina CEO Max Henrion moderates a panel of decision experts in this Society of Decision Professionals (SDP) webinar on a controversial and critical topic.

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11/11/2019 | Academic research, Blogs, Data mining, statistics, & AI, Modeling tips & tricks, Newsworthy, Portfolio management, Risk & uncertainty

Book review: decision making under uncertainty

This just-released Spanish-language textbook from Professor Jorge E Muro Arbulú has now taken its spot as my favorite textbook on …

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09/23/2019 | Blogs, Energy & power, Newsworthy

Dan Violette announced as 2019 IEPEC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

Dan Violette, PhD has been awarded the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award winner by the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference (IEPEC) board. This biennial award is…

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09/17/2019 | Blogs, Modeling tips & tricks, Scripting languages, Python & R

An Analytica advantage over MATLAB

I’m working on a model translation project for the California Energy Commission, going from MATLAB to Analytica. The transportation system model I’m working…

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03/19/2019 | Blogs, Modeling tips & tricks, Videos

Plotting over a Google Map

Here is how to display your geographic data on a Google map background.

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02/14/2019 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks, Optimization & solvers

An optimal Valentine’s date

“You know, Valentine’s Day reminds me of the optimal stopping problem.” Not sure if this phrase was uttered elsewhere, but, this is the sort of water cooler conversations…

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01/30/2019 | Blogs, Data mining, statistics, & AI, Modeling tips & tricks

How to update y = m x + b with new data

Abstract: Bayesian linear regression made super easy and intuitive! You arrive in a new city for the first time, and you’ll …

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