{"id":23,"date":"2016-11-27T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dereklee.peachpuff-wolverine-566518.hostingersite.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2016-11-27T20:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:43:43","slug":"big-data-for-big-animals-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/dereklee\/23\/big-data-for-big-animals-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-content\">\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\">Wild Nature Institute Giraffe Research Uses Big Data Tools<br \/>\nPart 3: Velocity, Volume, and Variety in Tall Data for Giraffe Conservation<\/h2>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Giraffes are big animals, so scientists have turned to big data solutions for giraffe conservation.\u00a0 Researchers from the Wild Nature Institute are conducting one of the largest-scale big mammal studies ever undertaken by studying births, deaths, and movements of more than 2,000 giraffes across a 4,000 square kilometer landscape in the Tarangire ecosystem of northern Tanzania, East Africa. Giraffe populations have declined precipitously across Africa due to habitat loss and illegal killing for meat. Dr. Derek Lee, Principal Scientist of the Wild Nature Institute said, \u201cWe needed new tools to figure out how we can save giraffes, and there was a perfect storm of technology that made our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildnatureinstitute.org\/giraffe.html\" target=\"_blank\">Project GIRAFFE<\/a> work possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Big data programs are often described by the 3 Vees of Velocity, Volume, and Variety, and Wild Nature Institute\u2019s Project GIRAFFE is growing in all three. \u201cOur Volume (amount of data) and Variety (type and nature of data) are already staggering.\u201d said Dr. Lee. \u201cWe take about 9000 high-resolution photos every year, and these photos contain hundreds of gigabytes of data on giraffe identity, location, social relationships, age, size, reproductive status, disease, space and habitat use, and much more. Our Velocity recently increased in a huge step function as our computer science collaborators have developed amazing new tools to speed up data processing. We are always looking for more partners from the computer science, informatics, and cybernetics worlds to improve our information processing systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Variety of data streams is also increasing as Wild Nature Institute enlists village game scouts, tourism operators, and ecotourists on safari. Involving stakeholders is integral to monitoring how giraffes respond to community conservation zones called Wildlife Management Areas. Wild Nature Institute partners at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pamsfoundationtanzania.org\/portfolio\/tarangire-manyara-project\/\" target=\"_blank\">PAMS Foundation<\/a> are supporting intelligence-based anti-poaching activities to protect elephants and giraffes in the Tarangire ecosystem, and Wild Nature Institute is documenting how the wildlife populations respond to their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Wild Nature Institute scientists are using digital photographs of each giraffe\u2019s unique and unchanging spot patterns to identify them throughout their lives. They are quantifying births, deaths, and movements of more than 2000 individual giraffes in a landscape that is a mosaic of natural and human-impacted areas to learn where giraffe are doing well, and where they are not, and why. Armed with data-driven conservation knowledge products, Wild Nature Institute scientists and partners are working to protect and connect the areas that are most important to giraffe survival and reproduction.\u00a0 \u201cWe are turning big data into tall data to save giraffes!\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/dereklee\/10\/big-data-for-big-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 1: Matching Photos of the Same Giraffe Using Virtual Supercomputers<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildnatureinstitute.org\/blog\/-big-data-for-big-animals-part-2\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2: Machine Learning Finds the Giraffe in the Bushes<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-none \">\n<p><a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wildnatureinstitute.org\/uploads\/5\/5\/7\/7\/5577192\/1926206_orig.jpg?w=1200\" alt=\"Picture\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<div>Giraffes contemplating the cloud-based informatics tools developed by Wild Nature Institute and their partners.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild Nature Institute Giraffe Research Uses Big Data Tools Part 3: Velocity, Volume, and Variety in Tall Data for Giraffe Conservation Giraffes are big animals, so scientists have turned to big data solutions for giraffe conservation.\u00a0 Researchers from the Wild Nature Institute are conducting one of the largest-scale big mammal studies ever undertaken by studying &#8230; <a title=\"Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/dereklee\/23\/big-data-for-big-animals-part-3\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[5,8,6,7,4],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-wildlife-conservation","tag-animals","tag-derek-lee","tag-giraffe","tag-wild-nature-institute","tag-wildlife"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3 - Derek Lee<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceblog.com\/dereklee\/23\/big-data-for-big-animals-part-3\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Big Data for Big Animals: Part 3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wild Nature Institute Giraffe Research Uses Big Data Tools Part 3: Velocity, Volume, and Variety in Tall Data for Giraffe Conservation Giraffes are big animals, so scientists have turned to big data solutions for giraffe conservation.\u00a0 Researchers from the Wild Nature Institute are conducting one of the largest-scale big mammal studies ever undertaken by studying ... 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