The goal of our project was to determine on what days of the year to send available weather balloons to maximize the chance of collecting a sample. We had n weather balloons available, with a limit of one balloon per day. We had data showing the probability of of a balloon collecting a sample depending on weather conditions for each day during the year. To solve our maximization problem we used solver and genetic, simulated annealing, tabu search algorithms. We visualized the results of the algorithms as a calendar using the tkinter library like below
