# Interactive Genetic Algorithm Dashboard from Scratch in Python¶

Playing God with an algorithm based on evolution.

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# What are we doing?¶

If you want to interact with the final result first, you can play with it on to PyViz examples here: https://genetic-algorithm.pyviz.demo.anaconda.com/GA

How can you maximise the number of components in a laptop, while having size, weight and price constraints? For questions like these, we often want to reach for optimisation algorithms, and one particularly fun one is Genetic Algorithm.

## Our example problem¶

For the sake of a fun visualisation, let's say the optimisation is "Wherever I click on the plot is the optimimum spot to find". We're going to use a population-based approach, Genetic Algorithm, in which there is a population of individuals (each individual representing a possible solution) which evolve across generations. Each solution is just the individual's x and y coordinates.

# What we want to see¶

We want to see a kind of "evolution simulator" in which we click a spot on the plot and when we begin evolving, each generation moves closer to the place we clicked.

# We need a population¶

"And God said, Let us make man in our image". First, let's create a population.

### Imports¶

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import math
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import random
from holoviews import opts
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import holoviews as hv
import panel as pn
from holoviews.streams import Stream
hv.extension('matplotlib', logo=False)