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Using Open Data in Creative Ways to Solve Problems

May 28, 2015 Joyce Hunter, Acting CIO, Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning

Want to make better use of forest, park and trail datasets? Try a hackathon. A hackthon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on...

Technology

Ag Census Data Tools Coming Your Way

April 24, 2014 Renee Picanso, Census and Survey Division Director, National Agricultural Statistics Service

The Census of Agriculture is conducted every five years and USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) spends that time planning, preparing, and executing the Census. But that’s only a part of the Census process. Once we gather and process the data, we have to make sure the results are...

Conservation

Dive Deeper Into USDA Data with New APIs

December 11, 2013 Erin Maneri Akred, Presidential Innovations Fellow for Open Data, ERS

Data consumers can now more easily leverage several of the most popular offerings from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS)! To meet the needs of a growing community of data users, including application developers and researchers, ERS has just released seven new APIs (Application Programming...

Conservation Technology

From Data to Decisions: Using Data to Improve Public Access and Knowledge

November 29, 2013 Joyce Hunter, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Policy and Planning

There are many companies that are currently using USDA data. Mercaris is a new company filling in the gap in offerings with reliable market data and an online trading tool tailored to the organic and non-GMO production, processing, and retail industries. Their reports present current and archived...

Technology

"Meet Me at the Market" - The Evolution of a Farmers Market

August 07, 2013 Arthur Neal, Deputy Administrator, AMS Transportation & Marketing Program

What better time than National Farmers Market Week to explore the history of farmers markets in the United States? Farmers markets are a critical ingredient to our nation’s food system, and date back to 1730 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the United States. "Meet me at the Market" has for decades...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Taking Hack-tion for Food, Farmers and America

June 04, 2013 Shayla Mae Bailey, AMS Public Affairs

This past weekend, civic hackers across the country took action—or hack-tion—when they gathered together to use their coding, designing and tech-making powers for good. Armed with a passion for data and working under a framework that focused their energies on solving civic problems, over 11,000...

Food and Nutrition Farming Technology

USDA, ERS Moving Down the Track to Open Data

May 23, 2013 Lavonne Luquis, Web Services Branch, Economic Research Service

Each day, the Charts of Note series from the Economic Research Service (ERS) delivers an innovative, visual display of research findings. Wouldn’t it be great if these charts could be easily grabbed for use on your own website or blog? Well, now they can. The new Federal Open Data Policy asks...

Technology

USDA Meets Digital Government Strategy Milestone with Mobile and Open Data Solutions

May 23, 2013 Amanda Eamich, Director of Web Communications

As part of USDA’s 12-month Digital Government Strategy deliverables we are sharing several new mobile and open data projects that help us deliver 21 st century service to you, our customers and stakeholders. These new tools and open data efforts will enable USDA customers, to more easily access...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety Technology

New API Helps Satisfy the Nation's App-etite for Farmers Markets

May 15, 2013 Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator

America is developing quite an app-etite. The number of U.S. smartphone owners is approaching 130 million, resulting in more and more demand for mobile access to our information. Combine that with the increase in consumers wanting access to fresh, local products, and it’s obvious why there’s such a...

Food and Nutrition Farming Technology

Full Speed Ahead for Open Ag Data

May 06, 2013 Todd Park, Chief Technology Officer of the United States and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Cross posted from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy blog: Last week, hundreds of innovators gathered at the World Bank IFC Center to brainstorm about how Open Data can be harnessed to help meet the challenge of sustainably feeding nine billion people by 2050. The group included...

Food and Nutrition Trade Research and Science Technology
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