Jing
As a Statistician for Decision Innovation Solutions, Jing Tang is responsible for analyzing data to help clients to make better strategic business decisions, and to assist coworkers in improving model prediction and model estimation preference. Jing works with clients and coworkers on data cleaning, modeling estimation, optimization, prediction, machine learning, social media data mining, risk analysis, data visualization, as well as providing reliable analysis results.
So far, she has been involved in several projects, such as using the prices of soybean oil, corn, and heating oil to predict yellow grease, choice white grease, and DCO price, optimizing different factors’ conditions to increase yields coming from byproducts. She has also been involved in building up models to estimate feed consumption for livestock, poultry, horse, sheep and goats, as well as estimating pet food consumption for dogs and cats.
Jing comes from Beijing, the capital of China. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Food Science and Technology at the Beijing Business and Technology University (BTBU), and obtained a M.S. degree in Food Science at the University of Missouri (MU), Columbia.
Also, Jing has a M.A degree in Statistics at MU. Therefore, Jing has the ability to combine both science and statistics knowledge together and to assist clients and colleagues in analyzing Areas of Expertise data, especially in the agricultural industry.
Education:
- Master of Food Science, University of Missouri
- Master of Statistics, University of Missouri
Expertise:
- Statistical Methods
- Machine Learning
- Data Analyzing and Prediction
- Data Visualization
Posts by: Jing
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Iowa Ethanol Gross Production Margin in the Year 2019
by Jing Tang
We had unnormal weather events throughout 2019 April and May in the Midwest and Iowa that led to very significant delays in the corn planting…
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Freight Rates Analysis
by Jing Tang
As in the last article we talked about the common modes of transportation for agricultural commodities in the State of Missouri are truck, rail, ship,…
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Freight Transportation and Commodity Flow
by Jing Tang
Many midwestern states, like Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, etc., are reliant upon infrastructure to move agricultural and agricultural related commodities to markets. There are thousands of…
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What happened to Iowa Ethanol Gross Production Margin in 2019 so far?
by Jing Tang
“Planting progress has been slowed by relatively frequent and relatively heavy rains throughout April and May.”, said DIS chief economist, David Miller, on May 24,…
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U.S. Biodiesel Production and Feedstocks Usage Five Year Outlook
by Jing Tang
The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) published Monthly Biodiesel Production Report on June 28th. In this article, we will conduct a descriptive analysis of pure…
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Social Media Data Mining – A Powerful Tool for Decision Making
by Jing Tang
Within the past twenty years, the flow of information has exponentially increased, largely due to advancements in technology and adoption of social media. The speed…