GEMS X007.1 - Title: Digital Agriculture: Getting Started Using Data to Support Decisions
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Delivery Options
Instructor Led Online
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Description
Prerequisites: This course is intended for students with limited or no background with data, but have practical experience working in agriculture, food, or environment.
Data is everywhere in agriculture, but knowing what to do with it isn't always easy or straightforward. This module will give you the basic tools for analyzing a decision-making context, evaluating the data needs, collecting or integrating data, and then performing basic analysis and visualization in Excel, R, Python, and QGIS. We will also cover some of the common pitfalls of using data to drive decision-making to be sure you and your teams can avoid them.
Objectives
- Analyze a decision-making context to identify what the decision is, what options exist for decision-making, who the decision-maker(s) is (are), what mechanisms of decision-making are used
- Identify what data exists and what data needs to be collected or integrated to support decision-making
- Perform basic data visualization in Excel, R, Python, and QGIS including importing data (csv, shapefiles), subsetting data, and making boxplots, scatterplots, histograms, choropleth maps, and dot maps
- Describe the decision-maker(s) each data visualization is targeted at and the appropriate uses and pitfalls of interpretation to guard against
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