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Data Analytics for Poultry and Swine Industries

The renovated version of the Course and Extension Certificate on Data Analytics for Poultry and Swine Industries is available again in its virtual, self-paced, and interactive format.

The next course will start on August 24, 2026.

About this Extension Certificate

Covers how to collect, manage, and analyze data to generate useful information to improve the results and plan future developments. It goes beyond descriptive and predictive statistics, setting the basis for mathematical modeling, big data analysis, automatic analysis, and machine learning applied to Poultry and Swine situations.

Objective

To provide information and training relevant to data analytics for the poultry and swine industries.

Online Course Contents:

Induction to Analytical Thinking for Decision Making

Overview of analytics and potential benefits Description of this training program

  • From statistics to business intelligence and machine learning
  • Analytics in the livestock and poultry business
  • Description of contents of this workshop
  • Other workshops -  Material Online
  • Certification Program
  • Project collaborations

A. Statistical thinking and problem-solving I

  • What is Statistical Thinking
  • Overview of Problem-Solving
  • Statistical Problem-Solving
  • Types of Problems
  • Defining the Problem: Goals and Key Process Indicators
  • Defining the Process:
    • Developing a SIPOC Map, Input/Output Process Map
    • Top-Down and Deployment Flowcharts
Source : ncsu.edu

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The following days are spent trying to get our sheep fed. We are totally out of hay at the moment so we are getting by with feeding the sheep some old hay supplemented with grain, sharing pastures with the various sheep groups, and working hard to get hay cut between rain showers. Not easy!