NIFA Listens FY 2023 – FY 2024 is a biennial stakeholder listening opportunity to collect input to understand key challenges, promising opportunities and recommended top priorities related to advancing agricultural research, education and Extension. Read more at the NIFA Listens webpage.
The report below captures findings from this year's session. NIFA implemented text analytics workflows leveraging the USDA EDAPT Data Science Workbench. New natural language processing (NLP) algorithms supported sentiment analysis and unbiased identification of top topics clusters and semantic relationships. New Tableau dashboards were designed to support further insight discovery. As reference, this report includes a qualitative analysis RRDC Stakeholder report, including a qualitative analysis comparing priorities identified.