Our Ongoing Journey from No Data to Data Science

Our Ongoing Journey from No Data

to Data Science

Presented at Data for Social Innovation 15/12/2016By Paul Lam (@quantisan), InGrower Mobile

Anders Frigaard, Biz Dev

17 years international development experience, Danish Agricultural Council, MBA, and Agro-Economist

Næsgaard, Business Institute Aalborg

Paul Lam, Product Manager

Software engineer with EE and Biomedical Eng. background, VP Engineering Motiva, CTO Spokepoint, Data Scientist uSwitch

Waterloo, U Toronto

Alberto, 19Entrepreneur

Jorge, 22Entrepreneur

We are an agribusiness school

Data Entry and Resource Management

Data science, so what?

Profitability

Source: Wikipedia

Year 2

Year 2

Year 4

Year 4

Year 6

Year 6

We collect data to enable new opportunities

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InGrower

input output

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output

Accessibility

Reduce Applicant Requirement

Remote Support

Long-term Support

We share data to reduce barriers

Before

Current

Scalability

Combining offline training + online support

- gradudate- Saved

US$5000

- Start home business

- 800 chickens

- Start school

- Start training- Seed capital

2 years0 month 2 months

- Start home business- 100 chickens- Ongoing support +

training online

- Start school

0 month 3 months

- Graduate- Seed

capital

Current

2017

6 months

We use data to scale social impact

So what?

Consider the humans - Jer Thorp

“It helps me make money”

Paul Lampaul@ingrower.com@quantisan

Thank you!