optimization

Optimized Wordle solver

Statistics / game, Jonathan Olson, optimization, Wordle

In case you’re not so good with the words, but feel the social…
Optimizing retail spaces

Statistics / New York Times, optimization, privacy, retail, shopping

Patrick Sisson for The New York Times reports on the growing popularity of…
Repulsive curves

Visualization / curves, optimization, research

Chris Yu, Henrik Schumacher, and Keenan Crane from Carnegie Mellon University are working…
Optimizing a peanut butter and banana sandwich

Statistics / deep learning, optimization, sandwich

How do you assemble a banana and peanut butter sandwich that maximizes the…
Optimizing a Pokémon team with simulation

Statistics / optimization, Pokemon, R

Emily Robinson recently took up Pokémon on Nintendo Switch:
I recently started playing…
Brewery Road Trip, Optimized With Genetic Algorithm

Data Underload / algorithm, breweries, optimization, road trip

Visit the best American breweries of 2018, based on RateBeer rankings, while minimizing travel time and distance.
Optimizing your R code

Coding / Hadley Wickham, optimization, R

Hadley Wickham offers a detailed, practical guide to finding and removing the major…