Organizations
Here is a select group of associations:
- INFORMS - This is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to and promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science, analytics, and more.
- The Operational Research Society (UK)
- The International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS)
- Mathematical Optimization Society
- Optimization Online is a repository of e-prints about optimization and related topics.
- Decision Sciences Institute
- Big List of Logistics associations
Supply Chain Organizations
- APICS - Concerning supply chain management
- Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
- CSC Center for Supply Chain Research
- Institute for Supply Management
Data Sources
- Data.gov This link opens in a new window
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
- U.S. Data FederationThe U.S. Data Federation supports data interoperability and harmonization across Federal, state, and local government agencies by highlighting common data formats, API specifications, and metadata vocabularies.
- WolframAlphaWolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.
- DataWebDataWeb is a sophisticated, technologically advanced data dissemination system that facilitates easy access to statistical data from their source, and repurposes them for many uses.
- USAFACTSUSAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society. We are a non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative and have no political agenda or commercial motive. We provide this information as a free public service and are committed to maintaining and expanding it in the future. Our work includes partnerships with academic institutions and experts who help keep our data accurate and unbiased. Our partners include the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the Penn Wharton Budget Model, and Lynchburg College.