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Does rainfall affect food prices in Kenya?

Does rainfall affect food prices in Kenya?

An exploratory data analysis,
carried out at @DataKindUK #DataDive,
28 July 2013,
London.

Geert Barentsen

July 28, 2013
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  1. Does rainfall affect food prices in Kenya? an exploratory data

    analysis carried out @DataKindUK 28 July 2013 London Geert Barentsen (@GeertMcTwit) Johan Kåhrström (@JohanKahrstrom) Simone Lombardini (@SimoneLomb) Eamon Bett (@eamon_bett)
  2. Method: we used domain expertise to fit a model to

    the moving average. Model fit Interesting model
  3. Key point We greatly improved the analysis by fitting a

    model which captured the domain expertise from Eamon (Kenya) and Simone (Oxfam).