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Easing the decision-making process with the AHP matrix The Analytical Hierarchy Process is a technique to help to organize, analyzing and optimizing complex decisions, and in this entry, I'm going to show you how I implemented it in Python Taking decisions can become a very complex issue especially in those occasions where the judgment of many people comes into play and when there are many alternatives to evaluate based on a large number of criteria. How the AHP works It considers some criteria to base our decisions on, and a set of alternatives amongst we have to pick up one, or at least rank them in a way that we show the ones that stick better to these criteria. As some criteria could be conflicting, in general, the option that will be chosen as the best will not necessarily perform the best in each criterion, but rather it will have a "fair" performance in all of them. It is also true, that the AHP is based on the subjective in...