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Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

  • 1.  Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-25-2023 18:17

    A gaggle of geese.

    A murder of crows.

    A parliament of owls.

    A flamboyance of flamingos. 

    A pride of lions.

    What do you call a group of operations researchers?



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    Laura Albert
    INFORMS President
    Professor and David H. Gustafson Chair
    University of Wisconsin-Madison
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  • 2.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 08:05

    Doesn't fit the "__" of "__" format, but how about:

    GladiatORs



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    Yash Puranik
    Principal Data Scientist
    Aimpoint Digital, LP
    Malden MA
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  • 3.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 08:53

    A sequence of analysts? 
    A class of philomaths? 
    A family of INFORMS members :)



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    Kara Tucker
    Editor
    Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
    Catonsville MD
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  • 4.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 09:00

    intellectually curious



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    Ken Fordyce
    director analytics without borders
    Arkieva
    Wilmington DE
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  • 5.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 09:03

    A tableau of optimizers



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    RALPH ASHER
    Founder, Data Driven Supply Chain LLC
    Data Driven Supply Chain LLC
    Minneapolis MN
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  • 6.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 10:10

    Hard to top Ralph's excellent answer!  But I'd offer...

    A distribution of problem solvers



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    Anthony Bonifonte
    Assistant Professor of Data Analytics
    Denison University
    Granville OH
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  • 7.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 10:24

    A vectOR of analysts
    INFORMed of consultants
    teaMS of scientists



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    Andrew Acosta
    Data Scientist
    Milesius Capital Resources LLC
    Chicago IL
    andrew@acm.org
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  • 8.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 11:02

    A snooze of nerds?



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    Paul Rubin
    Professor Emeritus
    Michigan State University
    East Lansing MI
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  • 9.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 11:26

    Perhaps a brigade of best deal seekers? (or division?)



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    Vincent Tsz Fai Chow
    Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
    Email: tsz-fai.chow@polyu.edu.hk
    https://tfvchow.github.io
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  • 10.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 11:35

    Can we use "a quantity of quants", or have the finance people copyrighted that?



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    Paul Rubin
    Professor Emeritus
    Michigan State University
    East Lansing MI
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  • 11.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 12:52

    If they are orderly, then I would call them "a queue of operations researchers".



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    Greg Godfrey
    Director, Advanced Data Analytics
    Metron, Inc.
    Reston VA
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  • 12.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 13:43

    Unfortunately, the INFORMS membership is at best partially stochastically ordered, and maybe not even that. I think the queueing theorists and the simulators are still arguing about stochastic dominance.



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    Paul Rubin
    Professor Emeritus
    Michigan State University
    East Lansing MI
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  • 13.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 13:09

    Some ideas from chatGPT:

    problem-solving squad
    mathematical maestros
    decision wizards
    optimization ninjas



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    Nicholas Ulmer
    Faculty
    Naval Postgraduate School
    Pacific Grove CA
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  • 14.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 13:41

    After more annual meetings than I care to count, I'm pretty sure we can rule out "optimization ninjas". Ninjas are quiet, right?



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    Paul Rubin
    Professor Emeritus
    Michigan State University
    East Lansing MI
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  • 15.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 14:00
    Edited by Kenneth Schultz 05-26-2023 14:19

    The optimum of academics. 



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    Kenneth Schultz
    Unaffiliated
    Englewood OH
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  • 16.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 14:17

    Highly employable!



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    Keith Willoughby
    Professor
    University of Saskatchewan
    Saskatoon SK
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  • 17.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 20:13

    How about "a model of operations researchers"?



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    David Tulett
    Associate Professor
    Memorial University of Newfoundland
    St John's
    Canada
    dtulett@mun.ca
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  • 18.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-26-2023 22:16

    "The Operatti of Operations Researchers" brings a sense of mystery, and sounds like a group of highly-skilled individuals deftly operating/working on complex challenges while maintaining a connection to the field of Operations Research through the term "operatti" (which is reminiscent of "operations"). 



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    Mikhail Bragin
    University of California, Riverside
    Riverside CA
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  • 19.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-27-2023 09:17

    An ontology of optimizers?



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    Mihai Banciu
    Professor of Business Analytics and Operations Management
    Bucknell University
    Lewisburg PA
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  • 20.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-28-2023 21:07

    An Argument of ORs



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    Samuel Denard
    Empirical Products and Services
    Houston, TX
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  • 21.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-28-2023 14:24

    A gurobi of optimizers? at the risk of annoying other vendors. It works better than an ampl of optimizers.



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    Bruce Hartman
    Professor
    University of St. Francis
    Tucson, AZ United States
    bruce@ahartman.net
    website:http://drbrucehartman.net/brucewebsite/
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  • 22.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-29-2023 06:52

    Determined Hunters of the Mirage.

    How about that



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    Magdy Helal
    Asociate Professor
    American University of the Middle East
    Kuwait
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  • 23.  RE: Fun post - what do you call a group of operations researchers?

    Posted 05-30-2023 01:22

    I can't believe no one has suggested what I'm about to suggest yet, but here it goes...

    A group of operations researchers is obviously called a simplex. :-D 



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    Tallys Yunes
    Associate Professor
    University of Miami
    Coral Gables FL
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