@inproceedings{267563cc328842bfb92a6ad2db029348,
title = "Bovi-Analytics: A platform to educate veterinary students Big Data in dairy cows: An initiative to create the veterinary stethoscope version 3.0?",
abstract = "As in other sectors, Veterinary Medicine is evolving quickly in the 21th century due to new Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies. At the department of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Herd Health (ROHH) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Ghent, Belgium, dairy researchers and veterinarians are trying to adapt to the wide range of new technologies. New mobile wearables during animal and herd checks offer valuable tools to increase accuracy of the diagnosis. Furthermore, the amount of data created on a dairy farm exponentially grew over the last decade to 100 MegaBytes each day (milk meters, accelerometers and vaginal or ruminal temperature loggers). However, trying to integrate the widespread data streams from PLF technologies is tempting. Researchers at ROHH are developing an online platform in collaboration with the DairyDataWarehouse (Assen, The Netherlands) allowing students to have daily access to a wide range of data from dairy farms. Students are able to consult the herd and animals on- and offline, on and off site. The current initiative focusses on a new tool called Bovi-Analytics to allow student access to herds with Big Data tools such as PowerPivot, R-packages or SAS. The goal of the platform is to increase the student's ability to convert physiological knowledge into applied Veterinary Medicine using Big Data.",
keywords = "Big data, Dairy cows, Data analysis",
author = "M. Hostens and K. Hermans and {De Koster}, J. and {Van Eetvelde}, M. and {De Preester}, E. and H. Bogaert and {Van Ranst}, B. and S. Moerman and J. Vandepitte and G. Opsomer",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Precision Livestock Farming 2015 - Papers Presented at the 7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, ECPLF 2015",
publisher = "Organising Committee of the 9th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming (ECPLF), Teagasc, Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre",
pages = "736--739",
editor = "Marcella Guarino and D. Berckmans",
booktitle = "Precision Livestock Farming 2015 - Papers Presented at the 7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, ECPLF 2015",
note = "7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming, ECPLF 2015 ; Conference date: 15-09-2015 Through 18-09-2015",
}