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What is a decision model test bench? Why have one? And how to use Nextmv as one.

Model testing saves time and improves outcomes. But it’s not always possible to perform tests in the same environment as your production runs. That’s where a test bench comes in.

CI/CD for decision science: What is it, how does it work, and why does it matter?

CI/CD is how you ship higher quality code to production faster. But with decision science models, there’s a twist. We’ll look at the role of decision quality, specific testing tooling, and problem drift on CI/CD for decision science models.

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.