citodouce-eng/Maize-Production-in-Africa
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agricultureRecord type:
project
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# 🌽 Maize Production in Africa — Big Data Project
> **Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning & AI Assistant for Maize Production in Africa**
## Project Overview
This project focuses on the **analysis and prediction of maize production in African countries** using agricultural data obtained from **FAOSTAT**.
The objective is to build an end-to-end Big Data solution capable of:
* Extracting and transforming maize production data.
* Storing processed data in PostgreSQL.
* Performing Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA).
* Identifying production trends across African countries.
* Developing Machine Learning models to predict maize production.
* Creating an interactive Tableau dashboard.
* Integrating an AI Assistant capable of answering natural-language questions about the dataset.
The project demonstrates the complete data lifecycle, from **raw data ingestion to analytics, prediction, visualization, and AI-powered interaction**.
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## Project Objectives
The main objectives of this project are:
1. **Collect** maize production data from FAOSTAT.
2. **Filter** the dataset to focus specifically on African countries.
3. **Clean and transform** the raw agricultural data.
4. **Store** the processed dataset in PostgreSQL.
5. **Analyze** maize production trends using EDA.
6. **Develop and evaluate** Machine Learning models.
7. **Predict** maize production based on historical data.
8. **Visualize** key findings through an interactive Tableau dashboard.
9. **Develop an AI Assistant** using the Groq API to interact with the data using natural language.
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## Project Architecture
The project follows an end-to-end data pipeline:
```text
┌─────────────────────┐
│ FAOSTAT │
│ Raw Maize Data │
└──────────┬──────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────┐
│ ETL │
│ Extract │
│ Transform │
│ Load │
└──────────┬──────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────┐
│ PostgreSQL │
│ Data Storage │
└──────────┬──────── …