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Category: Modeling tips & tricks

Learn from our team of modeling experts and the decision analysis community on best practices for model building. Here you will find information about Analytica, as well as general tips and tricks. Topics include how to go about structuring a complex problem, how to analyze models using sensitivity and scenario analysis, and tips on selecting graphs and maps to provide clearer insights. Overall we want to guide you and your organization to be better decision makers, no matter what industry or field you work in. For more a more comprehensive list of tutorials, user guides, videos, example models, and libraries, check out our Analytica Docs website.

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07/08/2024 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks, Videos

Why big data analytics projects fail and how to fix them

If you are like most practitioners of analytics, you went into the field because you are good with numbers, and you want to help people improve the quality of decisions on…

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07/08/2024 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks, Portfolio management, Projects by consulting firms

Analytica & systems dynamics: interview with Cory Welch

Cory Welch gave a paper on using Analytica at the International System Dynamics Conference on why and how he uses …

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07/08/2024 | Business & finance, Modeling tips & tricks, Portfolio management, Risk & uncertainty, Videos, Webinars

Analysis for finance & decision professionals

Watch Dan Zoppo’s webinar on the powerful Least Squares Monte Carlo method for real options problems that can add value to a businesses.

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07/08/2024 | Analytica in the cloud, Modeling tips & tricks, Videos, Webinars

How to use Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP)

How to use Analytica Cloud Platform (ACP) to its full potential with our CEO Max Henrion.

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07/08/2024 | Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks, Portfolio management, Videos, Webinars

Decision making when there is little historic precedent

Learn how to make decisions and strategic plans in uncertain situations, where historical data is not available. See how to model this in Analytica with clarity and insight.

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07/08/2024 | Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks, Risk & uncertainty, Videos, Webinars

The value of knowing how little you know

Understand the Expected Value of Including Uncertainty (EVIU), compare with the Expected Value of Perfect Information (EVPI), and the insights it gives into a variety of problems.

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07/08/2024 | Blogs, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Modeling tips & tricks, Risk & uncertainty

Estimation of the EVI using Monte Carlo

The expected value of information (EVI) lets you estimate the value of getting new information that reduces uncertainty. At first blush, it seems paradoxical that you can estimate…

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06/23/2023 | Analytica in the cloud, Energy & power, Environment & climate, Lumina consulting projects, Modeling tips & tricks, Videos, Webinars

How the heat pump calculator was built

Walk through our heat pump calculator model and what decisions were made in its creation.

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