Cannabis Data Science

You have probably pondered the curiously predictable effects that cannabis clearly has on people. Is the science settled on what compounds contribute to what effects? Join the Cannabis Data Science Meetup and let's put these sought-after effects to the test. Thanks to a contribution by a meetup MVP, we were able to run another 8,000+ OpenAI prompts, extracting thousands of new data points, ripe fo...

👃 Want to test sacred assumption about aromas of terpenes commonly found in cannabis? We take it a sniff further and examine user sentiment of aromas, i.e. what aromas do people love. And then we can test if any of the chemicals found in the product may be contributing to the aroma. We have a growing dataset of actual cannabis users, with matching lab results for their products, and rich text dat...

Want to know how to make 💰💰💰 from ☀️🪴🪴🪴? Learn from Drew Greco, director of cultivation at Solaris Farms, one of the largest cannabis cultivations in the world! Bring your best cannabis cultivation questions and let's make this one for the history books! 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis Data Science meetup: https://www.meetup.com/cannabis-data-science/ 🧑‍💻 Fin...

📣 Hear from Vadim Yerokhin, PhD how cannabis testing is being advanced at Abraxas Labs, one of the premier labs in Oklahoma dedicated to honest, transparent, and scientifically rigorous data. We talk THC, microbes, pests and pesticides, and the future of cannabis testing. Bring your best questions for someone who works everyday to bring you the best laboratory data scientific instruments can deli...

🦠 What cannot be seen and may cause $75,000,000 of cannabis to be remediated or destroyed every year in one state alone? Join the Cannabis Data Science Meetup and let's talk microbes! Today we're moving up the nanoscale! At risk of being luddites, we should probably get a basic knowledge of the creepy-crawly microorganisms that states that permit cannabis staunchly prohibit. Bring your best thoug...

💧 Come partake in the Cannabis Data Science meetup and let's ponder the particular particles that the peculiar plant produces. Today we can poke and prod at the foundations of chemistry and see if we can find practical uses with the ever-growing corpus of chemical compounds that we have been compiling. 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis Data Science meetup, every Wedne...

🍪 Do you know how many Cookies are in the Cookies Co.? Tough question, but the wisdom of the crowds is spectacular. Come crowd around, cast your opinions, and crunch on freshly collected Cookies data. 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis Data Science meetup, every Wednesday at 8:30am PST | 10:30am CDT | 11:30am EST. https://www.meetup.com/cannabis-data-science/ 🧑‍💻 Fin...

🎈 We have the data to begin to answer the question that's on everyone's minds: "What the hell is going to happen in California?" After the new testing regs that is. Every meetup you walk away with at least one novel insight, and this week will not be an exception. Get some brand new data, see never-before-seen statistics, and add your 2¢ to the discussion! 📊 Get the data: https://cannlytics.page...

🐒 Ready to monkey around with the freshest COAs? The boys have done it again, The Jungle Boys that is! JBs have released a crispy, modern website, and of course they listed their COAs! As we chew on some of our grand ideas, we get more pies in the oven (Zack's Pie, Pie Crasher, and Strawberry Pie to be specific!). Join us, discuss the latest happenings in the cannabis space, and take a look at th...

🚣‍♂️ Come meet Flow Gardens and see how the Cannabis Data Science Team can put data science to good use in the cannabis space! We have a sample pack of web scraping, COA parsing, effects and aromas, and chemical analysis to share in return for juicy insights about growing THCA-rich flower in Tennessee. 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis Data Science meetup, every Wedne...

🧑‍🎨We have results for all the winners of the 2022 and 2023 Emerald Cups. Using statistics, we can easily dispute the winner of the most unique terpene profile, just wait and see! You're going to see a statistic that the world has never-before-seen, crafted specifically for the cannabis industry. This is a special treat, get your seat, bring your best questions, thoughts, ideas, and comments, an...

🌲 What are factors that you can control to increase your chances that your plants live full, healthy lives until you reap the rewards of your harvest? Join us and we'll name a few! This is a fantastic application of data and statistics that you can put to use in your grows, from the smallest to the largest, figure out how to increase the chances that your plants survive and thrive! 🤝 Join the fu...

☀️ Having shown light on more than 50,000 lab results, we begin exploring how much selective breeding may explain the variation of cannabinoids we see in cannabis. We uncover more than one deep insight about the chemical nature of cannabis that we see growing from sea to shining sea. 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis Data Science meetup: https://www.meetup.com/cannabis...

🍲 It's time to stir the pot. With the advancement of technology in the past year, providing detailed lab results, buried deep in COAs, is now standard in the cannabis industry. With just a dash of open-source technology, any company can now use data that has been buried in PDFs, in dusty file drives, for years! It's about time we released the official how-to-parse COAs video. See first-hand how y...

🏗️ Do you know how economists estimate supply and demand? See how instruments can be used in this glorious episode of Cannabis Stats. Join a group of top-notch mathematicians, economists, and data scientists as we apply industry-best statistics to estimate what everyone in the cannabis space ultimately depends on: the supply and demand of cannabis. 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in...

🪨 We unearth a powerful PDF mining tool to mine retailer data. Once mined, we can easy calculate novel retail cannabis statistics. We start with Illinois. Massachusetts follows shortly after. We take a first look at trends in dispensaries per capita and sales per retailer. 🔎 Utilizing public data and advanced statistical methods, this research offers a detailed look into cannabis market dynamics...

🦎 Hard-to-reach fruit is always so sweet! We now have one of the largest datasets of terpene tests that exists in the public domain. This required quite the feat, but with the help of AI, think John Henry plus the steam engine, we were able to collect 2,000 terpene tests by TerpLife Labs. Watch, learn, listen, draw insights, ask questions, and help advance cannabis science! 🤝 Join the fun, data...

👩‍🏫With data from 21,000 cannabis licenses, Dr. Ruth Fisher shows us how to calculate a handful of brilliant statistics that you can use to quantify cannabis market structures. How equitable is a cannabis market? How diverse are the licenses? These are questions that you can begin to approach with the latest cannabis license data, with Dr. Fisher showing us exactly how useful the data can be. 🤝...

🤖 Can you imagine the world through AI's eyes? Now you can with optical character recognition! Use computer vision to get any data, any where you see it! Get lab result data from a pic of a COA! It's as easy as that these days. Come see the long road that's been travelled and how you can use OCR to unlock unfathomable amounts of data, sitting right before your eyes! 🤝 Join the fun, data wranglin...

♻️Today we don our ecologist caps and measure the diversity of cannabis products in the market. First we look at the abundance of strains in Washington, then we quantify the chemical diversity of products in Connecticut. Come join the fun and learn how to measure abundance, evenness, dominance, and richness of types. 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis Data Science meetu...

🥊 Do you know the top 20 strains in Michigan? How about the average THC for the top 20 medical strains? Come find out! We have 80,000 THC tests for all cannabis strains grown, sold, and smoked in 2021 and 2022! Come get the data, statistics, and share your own brilliant ideas to help advance cannabis science, one molecule at a time! 🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Cannabis D...

🍀Massachusetts releases 80,000 cannabis lab tests for THC, THCA, and total yeast and mold in a historic act of transparency! It is not everyday that the government lets you look behind the curtain. Join us as we plunder the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission's trove of the most prized numbers in the cannabis space: the elusive THC numbers.🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in t...

🎨 What is your favorite strain? This is the only question you need to begin finding the right product for the right person. Thanks to the work of Dr. John Abrams, we can merge science with folklore and you can use a simple 3-step algorithm to demystify the differences in cannabis strains, allowing you to hone in on the right choice for your palate. A glimpse into the algorithm:1. Calculate averag...

💎 Join us as we unearth insights buried deep in the 165,000 lab tests performed in Maryland and Washington for quality control. After wrangling cannabinoid and terpene data, we turn our eyes to the latest shiny object: heavy metals. Behold as we uncover what could be a deep dark secret of cannabis cultivators grasping for a silver bullet.🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics in the Canna...

🎯 In lieu of THC, consumers need a signal of what is going to be a quality product. We show how terpene data can be used to match similar strains and products, providing an excellent recommendation mechanism. Get your nearest neighbor, get your favorite blend, and advance cannabis science molecule by molecule by lending your eyes, ears, and attention!🤝 Join the fun, data wrangling, and analytics...