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In this tutorial, I’ll finish the process of converting a simple Excel Transshipment problem that I wrote to minimize the traveling distance that a set of patrol cars would have …
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In this tutorial I’m going to go through creating an optimization model in Excel. The next part of the tutorial will be scaling a small optimization program into a larger …
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I recently worked on two analytic projects which had libraries which were crucial to the completion of the projects, which I like to call putting all your eggs in one …
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I’ve gone over the network forecasts for the presidential election of 2016 and it wasn’t a pretty sight. While I don’t buy the line that “A lot of forecasters will …
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I have a request from a sometimes Linux user, me.

Please stop forking and making new distros.

It’s not me, it’s you. Look, I’m a reasonably tech-savvy guy. And I …
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Last week I wrote an article about using a cluster computing system to generate a large amount of forecasts from time series data for the supply management units (SMU) in …
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Recently I constructed a simulation that modeled the consumable supply system of Marine Corps Logistics. The Marine Corps has several operational-level Supply Management Units (SMU) that warehouse and handle consumable …
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Amazon Web Services has an amazing amount of capabilities, and some good ‘free’ stuff on it. But, and you knew the butt (sic) was coming, it can be painful to …
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For the record, I agree with almost all the conclusions of the contest. Especially after wrestling with Python this morning:

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/10/r-vs-python-data-analysis.html