Data Analytics
Practical insights from 11 re:build sessions on implementing data analytics in regenerative villages.
Overview
Data Analytics is a fundamental component of regenerative village development. This guide synthesizes knowledge from re:build gatherings to provide practical insights for implementing data analytics in community projects.
Key Insights
MRV systems: Some practitioners consult for carbon credit desks and MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) collectives, which are essential for tracking environmental impact.
Drone monitoring advantages: Drone monitoring of fields can spot disease, predation, or other issues way faster than ground-based observation. When traveling through fields that are hundreds or thousands of acres, problems often aren't visible until they've proliferated too far.
Satellite MRV: Satellite-based MRV systems can monitor diversity and carbon, helping secure and protect more of nature. Some practitioners don't believe we need separate water credits—water should be integrated into broader conservation approaches. Environmental DNA biodiversity monitoring provides complementary data for comprehensive ecosystem assessment.
Comprehensive data collection: Some projects in the European Union are collecting data on all systems and activities, including things like raising organic material in soil, creating comprehensive datasets for analysis.
Monitoring focus: There's a big focus on monitoring—understanding what's happening in systems is essential for improvement.
Monitoring tools: Different monitoring tools can be used in presentations and analysis to track various aspects of projects.
Gamification and data: Some companies use gamification to encourage employees to go greener, then collect anonymous data on scope three carbon emissions from employment patterns.
Examples and Case Studies
We are also engaged with the, with studies, lots of projects in the European Union, for collecting data of all the things that we do, all the systems that we are, and all the things that we are doing, and all the things that we are doing data of all the things that we do, all the systems that we, that we implant, like the directorial, like raising organic material in the soil
Best Practices
- When you're targeting your target audience there, it gives you various of information like you can give their like interest like sports like lifestyle, you can like give them demographic data as and it's gonna be really specific
- And then you're gonna be like, you're, like lifestyle, you can like give them demographic data, and it's gonna be really specific
- So offer some data, some factual observations that leads to that conclusion, and then build on that data with some form of inference
- You know, the conclusions that you draw from that data
Implementation Guide
To implement data analytics in your regenerative village project, consider the following approach:
Implementation details to be added.
Challenges and Considerations
However, some of the work that I've been doing with drone monitoring of the field is able to spot disease or predation or any kind of thing, way faster than I can when I'm traveling through fields that are hundreds of acres, even dozens of acres or thousands of acres, you don't see the problem until it's proliferated too far
External Resources
For deeper exploration of this topic, see:
- Environmental DNA Biodiversity Monitoring - Advanced monitoring techniques for biodiversity data