Understanding the environment and dynamics of a situation is the first step to being able to do something about it. Kimetrica’s domain modeling capability is to provide international development and humanitarian assistance decision-makers with tools for informed scenario support that will allow them to make a choice with the most impact. Domain models provide focused insights into some aspect of how the world works. These models provide singular insights when taken individually and deeper dynamics when combined as part of a sequence of collection. Domain models are most valuable when used to provide quantitative insights into specific questions. Domain models are designed with this use in mind and use methods that optimize for that aspect.
Domain models are highly valuable for providing reliable and repeatable indicators on a specific aspect of the world, but should not be construed as a source of general insight. For example, a model designed for wide-area crop production estimates is valuable in that context, but an entirely different approach is warranted for narrow-focus field level production. Within the documentation for each domain model you will find discussion on the methods and assumptions used, which is critical to understand when using these models in analysis.
The domain models identified have been used on current projects and focus on rapid deployment in data-scarce environments. Currently the models require a technical data science acumen to run, as they do not have an intuitive user interface. Most, if not all of our models produce outputs in a GeoJSON and GeoTIFF format.
