This week, we'll see how optimization
can be used to find a sports schedule
and to find a perfect match in online dating.
In the first lecture, we'll discuss
how almost every single sports league uses optimization
to design their season schedules.
We'll extend the idea of linear optimization
to integer optimization, a powerful way
to model decisions.
In the second lecture, we'll talk
about how eHarmony, the online dating site,
combines predictive models with optimization models
to suggest matches.
Let's get started.