Prescriptive Analytics Using Synthetic Information

Nidhi Parikh, Madhav Marathe, Henning Mortveit, Samarth Swarup

Abstract: In this chapter, the authors describe the use of synthetic information for doing prescriptive and predictive analytics. They discuss in detail how synthetic information is created by combining data from multiple sources and then describe its role in an ongoing disaster resilience study where they simulate the aftermath of a hypothetical nuclear detonation in Washington DC.