Big Data Science for Precision Farming Business Online Course

USDA Collaboration Chronology (see below), Preview of Online Course, and Commercial Examples: Farmers Business Network, FarmLogs, etc.

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Agenda

• 6:30 p.m. USDA: Open Data, Big Data and Precision Ag, Joyce Hunter, USDA Deputy Chief Information Officer for Policy and Planning and Bobby Jones, USDA Chief Data Officer Slides (http://semanticommunity.info/@api/deki/files/34894/JoyceHunter07302015.pptx)

• 7:15 p.m. Brief Member Introductions

• 7:30 p.m Bi.g Data Science for Precision Farming Business (http://semanticommunity.info/Data_Science/Big_Data_Science_for_Precision_Farming_Business#Story): HeatSpring: Data-Driven Farm Course (https://www.heatspring.com/courses/data-driven-farming)and Farm Data Dashboards (http://challengepost.com/software/farm-data-dashboards): USDA and Microsoft Innovation Challenge, and Commercial Examples: Farmers Business Network (https://www.farmersbusinessnetwork.com/), FarmLogs (https://farmlogs.com/), etc.

• 8:15 p.m. Open Discussion

• 8:45 p.m. Networking

• 9:00 p.m. Depart

USDA Collaboration Chronology

• March 16th: USDA CIO and ACDO on Open Data Plan and Roundtable Meetup

• March 25th: Government Technology & Innovation Incubator for Big Data Analytics II Meetup at Eastern Foundry

• May 18th: USDA Data Science MOOC Meetup

• May 21st, USDA Open Data Quarterly Submission to OMB on USDA Data Usage provided (USDA Data Science MOOC)

• July 21st, Data-Driven Farming Online Course Announced by HeatSpring and Semantic Community

• July 27th: USDA Microsoft Innovation Challenge Submission on Farm Data Dashboards

• July 29th, Partnerships Sought for Data-Driven Farming Online Course

• September 14th: Big Data Science for Precision Farming Business Online Course Meetup and Commercial Examples: Farmers Business Network, FarmLogs, etc.

• October 26-December 18th, Data-Driven Farming Online Course with Partners