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Wednesday Oct. 14, 2020, 4:45 p.m.–Oct. 14, 2020, 5:15 p.m. in Data Science Applications

Help your plants to stay healthier with Machine Learning at home

Maria Jose Molina Contreras, PhD

Audience level:
Novice

Brief Summary

Many studies have also proven that growing indoor house plants, as long as being a trend, improves health, despite the difficulty to keep them alive. In this talk, you will learn how to set up a basic plant monitoring system and implement a real-world machine learning project with plants at home.

Outline

Many studies have also proven that growing indoor house plants, as long as being a trend, improves health, despite the difficulty to keep them alive. The fact is that when we grow plants inside our homes, they depend 100% on us and sometimes it is difficult to know what they need.

In this talk, we will explore how to improve your plants' lives by setting up a basic plant monitoring system. This might sound complicated, but it is indeed very simple and useful: thanks to using python and jupyter notebooks. Moreover, you are going to create a machine learning pipeline from going through the steps of data labelling, selecting the framework, the model, and you will learn how to deal with the challenges that one can have in these processes.

Finally, you will see how this project is an excellent way to learn how to deal with data science challenges, at the same time that you will learn plant biology and how to implement a real-world machine learning project, and at the same time help your plant to be happier.


Outline

Introduction
How create your own dataset (methodology and criteria)
How to select the framework
How to establish the model (methodology and criteria)
Data analysis and data visualization
Impact of this implementation at home
Next steps

(1) This talk is beginner friendly. The main idea of this talk is to show with a practical example how we can implement machine learning at home, at the same time, how we can store and work with our own data for analysis.

(2) The background knowledge should be basic python knowledge.

This proposal of talk is complementary to a previous personal project called "PLANTARIS" , where the main goal was to implement a simple but functional watering system at home.