The Pandaa Blog

A Deeper Dive into Nonlinearities and Critical Thresholds to Understand Climate and Buildings

I have explained that we can do much better than one-size-fits-all thinking as we work to make buildings more safe

Why Average Values Oversimplify Understanding of Climate Change and Covid-19

In my previous post, I explained how we can move from "one size fits all" thinking to solutions that help

Getting Smarter About Buildings in the Age of Pandemics and Climate: How Data and AI Can Take Us From “One...

The increasing frequency and severity of pandemic and climate events represent new challenges to keeping buildings, particularly older buildings, safe

Guest Post: Decision Intelligence: Fulfilling the Promise of Cognitive AI

I was watching last weekend’s anti-mask, anti-vaccination protests in Edinburgh with utter horror and asking myself, how can rational human

Your Building Designs – a Unique Source of Data to Fight Covid-19

Humans excel at causal reasoning, however our "neurological machinery" has limitations, especially when trying to make decisions in situations of

“Dead-End” Spaces: the Hidden Coronavirus Hotspots That May Be Lurking Inside Buildings.

Shifting from data- to decision-centric thinking for COVID19 safety

Across the world, we've empowered a select few policy makers and organizational leaders to make COVID19 safety decisions for us.

Calling all Data Scientists to the COVID19 challenge

...we don't have a shortage of #epidemiologists. Nor #vaccine researchers. Instead, there is a huge gap in the chain from

The Decision Command Fallacy (Part 3)

In Part 2 of this article, I explained that, without careful thought, intervention in a complex situation will, more often

The Decision Command Fallacy (Part 2)

Decision failure patterns in complex environments The two decision failures I covered in Part 1 have different causes, but follow

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