EU Datathon 2022 teams behind the apps: Meet MyBioEUBuddy
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Organic farming is an agricultural method that aims to produce
food using natural substances and processes. As such, it tends to
have a limited environmental impact. Competing in the ‘European
Green Deal’ challenge, MyBioEUBuddy helps farmers and local
governments to find and follow the example of their ‘EU buddy
region’ classified as a top organic producer. The team behind this
app –Tamara Mitrovic, Biljana Vujovic and Nikola
Damjanovic – joined us for a short interview in which we talked
about the app, the idea that led to its creation and why they decided
to participate in the EU Datathon. 

 

HOW’S IT GOING WITH THE APP? WHAT’S THE CURRENT STATUS?  

Creating this app has been a long process. So far, we have completed
the core part: collating data, structuring it and creating a database,
cleaning and enriching it, performing exploratory analyses, finishing
clustering analyses, building unsupervised and supervised models and
validating them. In addition, making visualisation (data, model and
prediction) and creating recommendations. 

We are now focusing on the front-end part, especially the green user
interface. What's next? Celebrating as we cross the finishing line! 

 

WHY DID YOU DECIDE TO TAKE PART IN THE EU DATATHON?  

Our friendship goes back to our student days, when we worked together
on solving theoretical mathematical problems. Like then, we enjoy
spending time together, working on no less complicated tasks. 

We've all been involved in data science to some degree for many years,
and it's a field we enjoy working in. Considering that the topic
we’re addressing is very important, we feel a strong sense of
responsibility contributing to it in the best way we can. We are
always open to challenges that will enable us grow, and in our
opinion, EU Datathon is one of them. 

 

HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR THIS APP?  

While sitting together, we agreed that it was a pity that organic
production in our country, Montenegro, was at such a low level. It’s
a very import-dependent country, despite having sufficient natural
capacities at its disposal. 

We tried to find an answer to the question of where we should look for
models of organic production and what it was they were doing. The only
way we could glean any information was by browsing several internet
pages, without being able to clearly see who was good at bio
production, who was not, and why. That's how some of the ideas came
up. The EU program From Farm to Fork
[https://food.ec.europa.eu/horizontal-topics/farm-fork-strategy_en]
was an additional trigger for the idea. 

Combine available information and provide additional value through a
single web application that will have both comparative data and best
practices in one place and will be available to users for whom this
information is important. Sounds very simple, doesn't it?

 

To find out more about the MyBioEUBuddy team, watch this 1-minute
video [https://youtu.be/U0TUBrXZ9p4]. 

Curious to learn more? Discover the teams and their apps on the EU
Datathon website [https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eudatathon], watch their
videos on YouTube
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokN2NcsxCA&list=PLT5rARDev_rnik8jF6E8k5AjN5zeJmqXG]
and follow their updates on Twitter [https://twitter.com/EU_opendata],
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[https://www.linkedin.com/company/publications-office-of-the-european-union/]
or via our newsletter [https://data.europa.eu/en/newsletter]. 

Publication Date/Time
2022-10-04T04:30:00+00:00
Supporting organic farming with open data