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Author: Lonnie Chrisman

Lonnie Chrisman

Lonnie Chrisman

Lonnie Chrisman is Lumina's Chief Technical Officer, where he heads engineering and development of Analytica. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley.

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07/08/2024 | Case studies, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Energy & power, Lumina consulting projects, Newsworthy, Portfolio management, Risk & uncertainty, Videos

Helping gas utilities reduce risk with RSE

Learn about the decision-support web application named ANAGRAM (Analytica for Natural Gas Risk Analysis and Management).

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07/08/2024 | Case studies, Environment & climate, Lumina consulting projects, Risk & uncertainty, Spreadsheet conversions

Are cows worse than cars for greenhouse gas?

Turns out that methane from farm animals generates more greenhouse gas emissions than cars, trucks, trains, and planes combined.

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07/08/2024 | Business & finance, Risk & uncertainty, Videos, Webinars

Using Analytica to model farm financial risk

Analytica provides the perfect platform for Agricultural Economists to explore the tradeoff between risk and profit at the farm level.

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07/08/2024 | Case studies, Energy & power, Environment & climate, Portfolio management, Projects by consulting firms

Tucson electric power

Navigant Consulting created RE-Sim™, an Analytica model, to help TEP plan how to add generating capacity from renewable sources.

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07/08/2024 | Analytica in the cloud, Case studies, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Energy & power, Environment & climate, Lumina consulting projects, Newsworthy, Open-source models, Videos

Building electrification: heat pump technology

Lumina set out to build a useful tool to assess the benefits of heat pumps. Learn more about heat pumps and their impact.

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07/08/2024 | Case studies, Decision analysis & multi-criteria, Energy & power, Environment & climate, Open-source models, Risk & uncertainty, Water & ocean resources

Controversy to consensus: offshore oil platforms

Offshore oil in California is highly controversial. But, Lumina’s decision model on decommissioning oil platforms led to consensus for “rigs to reefs”.

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07/08/2024 | Energy & power, Environment & climate, Newsworthy, Portfolio management, Videos, Webinars

Navigating the heat pump landscape

Fort Collins, Lumina, and Apex Analytics have created a tool to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions by optimizing building electrification programs.

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07/08/2024 | Blogs, Data mining, statistics, & AI

Does GPT-4 pass the Turing test?

In 1950, Alan Turing proposed “The Imitation Game”, today known as the Turing test, as a hypothetical way of measuring whether a computer can think [1]. It stakes out the…

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Download the free edition of Analytica

The free version of Analytica lets you create and edit models with up to 101 variables, which is pretty substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you run larger modes in ‘browse mode.’ Learn more about the free edition.

While Analytica doesn’t run on macOS, it does work with Parallels or VMWare through Windows.


    Analytica Cubes Pattern

    Download the free edition of Analytica

    The free version of Analytica lets you create and edit models with up to 101 variables, which is pretty substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you run larger modes in ‘browse mode.’ Learn more about the free edition.

    While Analytica doesn’t run on macOS, it does work with Parallels or VMWare through Windows.


      Analytica Cubes Pattern

      Download the free edition of Analytica

      The free version of Analytica lets you create and edit models with up to 101 variables, which is pretty substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you run larger modes in ‘browse mode.’ Learn more about the free edition.

      While Analytica doesn’t run on macOS, it does work with Parallels or VMWare through Windows.


        Analytica Cubes Pattern

        Download the free edition of Analytica

        The free version of Analytica lets you create and edit models with up to 101 variables, which is pretty substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you run larger modes in ‘browse mode.’ Learn more about the free edition.

        While Analytica doesn’t run on macOS, it does work with Parallels or VMWare through Windows.


          Analytica Cubes Pattern

          Download the free edition of Analytica

          The free version of Analytica lets you create and edit models with up to 101 variables, which is pretty substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you run larger modes in ‘browse mode.’ Learn more about the free edition.

          While Analytica doesn’t run on macOS, it does work with Parallels or VMWare through Windows.


            Analytica Cubes Pattern

            Download the free edition of Analytica

            The free version of Analytica lets you create and edit models with up to 101 variables, which is pretty substantial since each variable can be a multidimensional array. It also lets you run larger modes in ‘browse mode.’ Learn more about the free edition.

            While Analytica doesn’t run on macOS, it does work with Parallels or VMWare through Windows.


              Analytica Cubes Pattern