Is it time to switch to an electric vehicle?
Can you save money by switching to an EV? Electric vehicle (EV) prices have been coming down and gas prices are skyrocketing. How do various vehicles compare in terms of total cost of ownership?
The Units State of America: Buying gas by the kilowatt-hour?
Why shouldn’t the US stand against the tyranny of a decimal system of units, which was based on the irrelevant fact that we humans have ten fingers? Why shouldn’t the US retain its quaint exceptionalism in units as in other domains — such as being the only developed nation not to have universal healthcare or paid parental leave?
Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy Expenditure from Santa’s global tour
In late December, Santa Claus will embark on his annual Christmas eve ritual, delivering presents to the good little boys …
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Climate change and the energy transition: How can DA help?
Lumina CEO Max Henrion moderates a panel of decision experts in this Society of Decision Professionals (SDP) webinar on a …
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Dan Violette Announced as 2019 IEPEC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Dan Violette Announced as 2019 IEPEC Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
An Analytica advantage over MATLAB
If you’re working in MATLAB and find yourself using repmat and reshape, consider letting Analytica do that unenjoyable dimension management on your behalf so you can focus on building out a useful model.
What to do when your model results are ridiculous?
When an exhaustive scrutiny of the model code, the data and more sensitivity analyses don’t reveal why your model isn’t working, you must consider that perhaps it’s your intuition that is wrong. Learn why a normative framework like decision analysis can help vs treating human expertise and intuition as the “gold standard.”
Marginal Abatement part 2 – adding a dimension
In my earlier blog article, Marginal Abatement, I explained what a Marginal Abatement graph is and how to set up …
Apples to Oranges to Chinese Gooseberries: Pledges for the Paris climate talks
October 1, 2015 was the UN’s deadline to receive national pledges for the UN Climate Change Treaty to be negotiated …
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