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by hef19898
2284 days ago
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Makes sense. One of my previous employers tried to develop the tools in-house, as a sideline of the operational business of running transportation (of people, in busses, like groups of people renting the whole bus). Development was guided by a guy with a media background, developers where people fresh from University. Results were predictable. Some sophisticated tool kit would have been great! |
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One thing that's struck us is the lack of accessibility of optimization tools to software engineers. I worked as a developer long before I ever got into OR. When I switched over to being an analyst, it felt like there was an invisible divide between the two worlds.
A great success of the Data Science movement over the last decade seems to be making statistics and visualization easier for and more widely adopted by tech. We think optimization and simulation are about to go through the same thing.