DECISION THEATER
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What if you could evaluate and see decision outcomes before making them?
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THE ASU ADVANTAGE
Informed Decision Making
The Arizona State University (ASU) Decision Theater (DT) is a university resource supporting and enabling research activities through data visualization, predictive modeling, and expert multi discipline and stakeholder analytics.
Complex systems by their nature are multi-dimensional and cross domain boundaries. System problems cannot be easily understood or solved by looking at it through a single prism that does not consider consequences to all aspects of the problem. While research and practical knowledge on interrelated functions exists, it is often challenging to communicate contextualized relationships to non-expert audiences or decision or policy makers. DT applies an integrated, visualized, data, and mathematical model approach to portraying and analyzing the functions of a system, conducting predictive analysis, and communicating to leaders, practitioners and community members.
The creativity and innovation Decision Theater brings to each project elevates the possibilities, and brings ideas alive.” Dominique Roe-Sepowitz Associate Professor, ASU School of Social Work
From fundamental research to real-world application, ASU DT staff develops custom modeling and simulation tools with unique visualization capabilities to create a common understanding of complex problems. Clients are able to test theories and forecast the outcome of prospective decisions. The collaborative, immersive, and interactive environments created at ASU DT affords researchers and other organizations unparalleled abilities to make decisions in a range of disciplines and environments, often in timesensitive environments, that incorporate multiple streams of real-time information. Economic policy, health care delivery, emergency preparedness, and disaster response are just some examples of the large scale, dynamic systems where key decisions have long-term ramifications.
