18-75_Q&A__3.pdf

IFIB:

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The following questions were raised with respect to subject IFIB. Responses are to provide clarification.

Questions Responses

1. How is the NATO data pipeline organized?

2. Does NATO have a data engineering group?

2a. Database administrators?

2b. Data Scientists / Analysts?

2c. Report Developers?

2d. What skillsets do they own?

3. What are the expected initial number of users during development & testing?

3a. How many users should be planned for in the following year?

4. What are examples of what-if questions that might be asked using the scenario tool?

5. What are the feature requirements of the scenario development component?

6. What structure of the pieces of knowledge should be put in a knowledge base. Free text?

6a. With tags/labels/folders/links?

6b. Propositional logic?

6c. Probabilistic equations?

Data will be collected from open source databases, web pages, etc. The collected data will be stored in cloud and accessed via web interface.

No

Yes

Statistics and strategic foresight and analysis.

Up to 20 Users

TBD

The scenario tool will be used to analyze the findings of the NLP and trend analysis.

It will provide insights and inform trend analysis based on the changes in variables.

IFIB-ACT-SACT-18-75 Pilot Study:

Improving Strategic Foresight Analysis

(SFA) Using Data Science Tools and

Techniques, Automation and Software

Support to Analyst

Q & A # 3

7 Jan 2019