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Local Food Systems Computer Modeling, GIS, Data(mining) group
This is a meta group to explore, discuss, post blog posts, ideas, and resources about technology applications, best practices, and resources for Computer Simulation, GIS and Datamining of local food systems.
This could be useful, for instance, for people exploring logistics, crunching numbers of all kinds, looking at environmental impacts, modeling or datamining around crop and livestock growth rates and conditions, market explorations, importing open data from public sources and using it, like data from NOAA, US Census, etc
The primary goal here is to pool resources, and knowledge and put the power of datamining, computer simulation, and working with and analyszing data into the hands of more people, by creating and/or disseminating knowledge about ways to use these tools, best practices, etc
Market Maker: What is it? How can we use it?
Sun, 09/28/2008 - 14:36 — Sam RoseHi friends,
I received lots of great feedback from many of you that I had a chance to speak with at the Stinner Summit recently.
Lots of projects and groups were interested in havign access to geographic mapping online. It turns out that there is already a resource available that offers quite a bit of publicly-available data.
That tool is Ohio Market Maker
(also linked to under useful links above)
Can we post maps showing where our users are, where food processing infrastructure exists, etc?
Wed, 09/24/2008 - 11:09 — M.Ajamian B.JaegerI was hoping the site could have various info maps-one would be under list of all users showing where users are. maybe that list could be organized by region or alphabetically as right now it seems random and it's hard to look through. Also I think it would be a great resource to map farms, processing facilities, inclduing kitchens, meat processing, dairy processing, mills, etc, farm markets, CSAs, distributors, and even commercial buyers of local food.
A New Type of Insfrastructure for Local Systems (including local food systems) based on search
Sun, 06/29/2008 - 12:59 — Sam RoseToday I read this amazing article:
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php
Modeling food system logistics using ExtendSim
Thu, 06/26/2008 - 20:14 — Casey HoyThis post is mainly for the Food Systems Modeling, GIS and Data group, but I'm including a few other groups that could be interested as well.
Idea: Local food systems computer modeling and datamining services
Wed, 06/18/2008 - 09:39 — Sam RoseThe idea is that I could create a low cost service that could:
- Model local food systems on several scales using some different open source software to create systems simulaiton models
- Collect data, and when appropriate, combine with existing public data to create datamining models for projecting, finding patterns, and to augment decision making in local food systems
The data from models, and from data mining would be made public, released under an open license (even when people *pay* for the creation of models or datamining services).
Any custom software, scripts, etc that are generated would also be made public/open license.
An addendum to this idea is that an open resource/education space could be offered to explore non-open source software modeling and datamining options, especially when they lower the barrier of entry for people to employ them
A food grower would like to mine existing data to look for patterns in the growth of certain crops. Where is the best location to grow the crops? What is the best rotation combination? Soil conditions? Same food grower would also like to model many combinations simultaneously, so this is done with simulation programs. The food grower then can use this to augment his decision making.
The same food grower, plus some other stakeholders would like to also model local ecomomic systems, and nearby urban systems, to see the effect that their products could have on local ecomomies, environments and social systems. So, this si also done with different available simulation software. Data mining is also employed. There are several services, who operate in partnership, to combine and process data, both for data mining/knowledge discovery in data, data visualization, and for systems simulation.