Data Science Hackathon Workshop - 2023

CHALLENGES AND PROBLEM SOLVING WITH DATA SCIENCE IN NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT

Public workshop in the scope of the Green Data Science Master programme

 

Date: 6th October 2023
Time: 09:45h-12:30h
Location: ISA, Salão Nobre

Language: English

 

Workshop Overview: Join us for an engaging and informative workshop on the application of data science in natural resources and environmental sciences. In this 2.5-hour event, we will explore two data science problems and hear from experts on the challenges and opportunities in these fields. The workshop is open to all the ISA community, and marks the start of the Hackathon project team’s work to solve data science application problems.

 

Agenda:

 

09:45h - 10:00h: Registration and Networking

  • Participants arrive and sign in.
  • Networking opportunities.

 

10:00h - 11:15h: Part 1 - Problem Statements and Challenge Briefing

10:00h - 10:15h: Opening Remarks

  • Speaker: Rui Figueira (ISA)
  • Welcome and introduction to the workshop.
  • Brief overview of the day and workshop’s agenda.

10:15h - 10:45h: Problem 1 - Prioritisation of occurrences and allocation of means and resources to combat forest fires - FEPC-ANEPC

  • Speaker: Akli Benali (ISA)
  • Overview of the first data science problem
  • Challenges and complexities associated with this problem.
  • Q&A session for clarification on challenges.

10:45h - 11:15h: Problem 2 - Prediction of raspberries yield and fruit quality - Summer Berry Portugal

  • Speaker: João Alves (Summer Berry)
  • Overview of the first data science problem
  • Challenges and complexities associated with this problem.
  • Q&A session for clarification on challenges.

11:15h - 11:30h: Break and Networking

 

11:30h - 12:30h: Part 2 - Communications on Challenges and Opportunities for Green Data Science

11:30h - 12:15h: Communications on Challenges and Opportunities

Three short presentations on challenges and opportunities in applying data science to agriculture, food, forestry and the environment.

  • Moderator: Manuel Campagnolo (ISA)
  • Presentation 1: Paulo Branco (ISA) - working with river networks, problems, challenges and solutions (download slides)
  • Presentation 2: João Rolim (ISA) - the experience on multidimensional data on agricultural water management (download slides)
  • Presentation 3: Miguel Costa (ISA) - the challenges on supporting decision making practices based on data in agriculture (download slides)

12:15h - 12:30h: Discussion and Closing Remarks

  • Moderator: Rui Figueira (ISA)
  • Recap of key takeaways from the workshop.
  • Information about future events or resources.

12:30h - End of workshop

 

Download program as pdf

Files
GreenDS-Hackathon-workshop-programme-2023.pdf