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Haversine vs. OSRM: Distance and cost experiments on a vehicle routing problem (VRP)

How do you test if you should use map data over Haversine for a vehicle routing problem? Let’s use batch experiments with Nextmv to find out!

Plot your routes on a map with open source visualization tool, Nextplot

How do the routes look? Are they clustered? Are there any stops outside the region? Answer these questions and more with an open source route plotting tool that allows for easy, customized styling.

New decision apps, an open source decision model hub, and an individual plan

Many awesome projects and people underpin the optimization world. We're making mvs to surface more open source model code for real-world impact and better support individual decision modelers.

Introducing switchback testing: A/B testing for decision models with network effects

See the real-world impacts of a candidate model with a switchback test that randomly assigns units of production runs to each model. Start a switchback test, analyze the results, and promote a new model to production all in the Nextmv console.

A 2023 look back and 2024 preview of what’s next with DecisionOps and decision science

Last year, we focused on accelerating deployment and testing for decision models. 2024 looks to focus on operating and monitoring models with more platform integrations and greater visibility and control across your development lifecycle.

Shift scheduling optimization: Generating shift types, planning for demand, and assigning workers

Solving a workforce scheduling problem? Not sure where to start? We walk through the basics and cover what you need to know about optimizing and automating shift scheduling.