Category: PTO Series
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How do I use my PTO? Part 4 – Calendar of Adventures
In the first three parts of this PTO optimization journey, I dwell on the mathematics of some optimization problem that would tell us which trips to take and when. The burden of this approach is data. Not only do we need data regarding our pool of trips, we need data on how we would assign…
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How do I use my PTO? Part 3 – Bundling Trips
In Part 1, we laid out the most basic optimization problem formulation for choosing which trips to take given a large set of trips. An implicit assumption in this problem formulation is that the trips we choose amongst are standalone. We don’t really account for the interaction between two different trips. For example, let’s say…
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How do I use my PTO? Part 2 – Math to Code
In Part 1 of this series, we sketched out our decision problem of choosing which trips to take given the amount of PTO days we have as a (barebones) optimization problem. That’s great and all (I’ve always like just looking at mathematical notation), but we should be able to solve this problem to get an…
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How do I use my PTO? Part 1 – Problem Definition
For this series of articles, I want to do something related to a more practical problem we all have… deciding how to use our PTO days. If you’re like me, you have way too many trips on your list that your tiny amount of PTO days can’t possibly support in a year. The best we…