Helping African farmers with TensorFlow

Amanda Ramcharan, Latifa Mrisho, and Peter McCloskey joined Daniel and Chris to talk about how Penn State University are collaborating to help African farmers increase their yields via a TensorFlow powered mobile app.

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Featuring:

• Amanda Ramcharan – Website, GitHub, X
• Latifa Mrisho – X
• Peter McCloskey – 
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Assessing a mobile-based deep learning model for plant disease surveillance
• Penn State-developed plant-disease app recognized by Google

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