Augmented Interpretation

The Data Lathe Decision Support System is an amalgam of discipline and knowledge derived from a broad array of fields. Its fundamental purpose is to provide a unified means of augmenting any person's ability to interpret, weigh, and act out decisions that most closely align with their desired objectives.

Data Lathe is built atop a single axiomatic principle: That the individual human decision-maker is the paramount scale of analysis in measuring the success or failure of any action. All operations, organizations or otherwise social constructs; regardless of culture, task, environment, size, scale, complexity, or intensity; are ultimately measurable only by the net effectiveness of individuals acting out decisions within these structures. 

As such, Data Lathe is crafted around the natural interpretive structure of a human being. It incorporates knowledge of neural physiology, psychology, and both established and novel mathematical techniques to systematically weight and update relational values of the worlds phenomena. This is expressed in a manner immediately relevant to a single individual and the environment in which they exist. In one sense, InformaticUs is a programmatic mirror of the psycho-physiological interpretive framework default to every human being. 

However, unlike the human interpretive structure, Data Lathe is capable of contending with phenomenological data at the rate and scale of a machine. Whereas a human being can ingest, interpret and weigh relatively small numbers of variables in a given moment, Data Lathe can incorporate information into decision analysis limited only by available data sources. This mathematical weighting structure provides the engine for an extraordinarily broad and powerful range of decision making assets. Advanced techniques and theories to include deterministic and probabilistic multicriteria decision analysis models, stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis, stochastic dominance, game theory, probability and statistics, regression analysis and others, can now be brought to use by the everyday person. 

Data Lathe is deliberately structured as a generalized archetypal framework that can be tailored to the extreme nuances of any task and purpose. This archetype can then be configured to power any form of human-machine interface. While an interface can be adapted to any one individual, EVERY interface is powered by a common programmatic framework. Combined with this feature, the vision of the Data Lathe Decision Support System takes full form:

A generalized interpretive tool that condenses monumental sums of data into actionable decisions immediately relevant at the scale of the individual; A tool that expresses information in a format that is most useful to the individual; A tool that is dynamically adapting to changes in environment and to other decision makers using the system; A tool that is grounded in a universally standardized interpretive framework which seamlessly ingests and expresses information across human actors without sacrificing localized nuance; And can be scaled both laterally and vertically to serve decision-makers at every level of hierarchy, in any organization pursuing any objective.

A tool for each of Us. A system for all of Us. Data Lathe DSS.