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The Data Science programming / analytics languages to know are, R and Python. If you're in Operations Research or another analytics fi...

Have you transferred at or departed from the London Heathrow airport lately? Did you notice how the boarding gates remain unassigned until a...

Earlier Dawen wrote an article about her recent experience in security screening at Gatwick Airport . I thought this was an opportunity to d...

Simulation is a powerful tool in the hands of Operations Research practitioners. In this article I intend to demonstrate the usage of a disc...

A ThinkOR blog reader asked me some questions about getting started as an Operational Research professional. The reader is in his final yea...

I spent 2013 ' overlanding ' through South America with my partner. 1 year, 1 continent, 1 simple car, 2 people, 13 countries, 40,0...

This year's INFORMS Business Analytics and Operations Research conference was held in Huntington Beach, California. Excellent talks on...

In the last post, I wrote about how good it is to see OR linked as a skillset to data science . However, do note that OR is only one part o...

... according to O'Reilly , yes, it is.  This is perhaps the clearest I've seen anyone link OR to Data Science. Or perhaps, depend...

Systems Dynamics is a discipline that floats about in the management science/management consulting ecosystem. It is genetically related to S...