FASTCON: Food, Ag & Supply Chain in Tech Conference

Data-driven decisions are paramount to thriving and growing in today’s business, government, and service environments. In this session, the Grande Cheese Company shares how to leverage vast resources of publicly available data from governments, non-governmental organizations, and commercial sources to augment and enhance understanding; leading to better business decisions. Topics include: - Sources and access methods to publicly available data sets, reliability and biases in data, and opportunities to use public data both tactically and strategically. Data use demonstrations using public data from North/South America, Europe, and Oceania will focus on proper organization, presentation, and visualization of data and methods to source and structure data within to make comparative analysis and glean understanding. A use case in collaboration with the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities focusing on agricultural data will be featured.