From the Space Shuttle to Industry: How Analytica’s NASA-Developed Risk Methodology Transfers Across Sectors
05/18/2026
How NASA and Lumina built a probabilistic risk modeling system for Space Shuttle ground processing.
Max Henrion
Max Henrion is Lumina’s Founder and CEO and has experience as a researcher, educator, software designer, consultant, and entrepreneur, specializing in the design and effective use of decision technologies since 1982.
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The Units State of America: buying gas by the kilowatt-hour
07/08/2024
Why does the USA still use British Thermal Units (BTU) and other archaic units that even the Brits scrapped? Max Henrion argues that international (metric) units would make the clean energy transition easier.
Why big data analytics projects fail and how to fix them
07/08/2024
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…
Analytica & systems dynamics: interview with Cory Welch
07/08/2024
Cory Welch gave a paper on using Analytica at the International System Dynamics Conference on why and how he uses …
Estimation of the EVI using Monte Carlo
07/08/2024
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…
Analytica user feedback
11/14/2022
See what power users are saying about important Analytica features, what they want to see in the future of Analytica, and what our team is working on providing.
Is it time to switch to an electric vehicle?
06/29/2022
Can you save money by switching to an EV? How do various vehicles compare in terms of total cost of ownership?
The Suppression Triangle for COVID-19: How soon can we end the lockdown?
04/15/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has given many people a crash course in the frightening implications of rapid exponential growth in cases and deaths – what some people call “J-curves”…
