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Optimization hackathons, code fests, and innovation challenges on Nextmv

Looking to innovate in operations research? Or better translate academic research to industrial practice? Build or practice modeling skills set up for real-world impact? Check out this starter guide to hosting challenges on Nextmv.

Java support for the Nextmv OR-Tools integration: Build, test, deploy decision models faster

Do you use Java and OR-Tools to model optimization problems? The Nextmv OR-Tools integration now supports Java – making it easier to operationalize Java-based models using our DecisionOps platform.

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.