Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is a nonparametric method in operations research and economics for the estimation of production frontiers.[1] DEA has been applied in a large range of fields including international banking, economic sustainability, police department operations, and logistical applications[2][3][4] Additionally, DEA has been used to assess the performance of natural language processing models, and it has found other applications within machine learning.[5][6][7]