Food Bank Forecasting with Professor Lauren B. Davis

Food Bank Forecasting with Professor Lauren B. Davis

June 3, 2025 · 49 min · Season 5 · Episode 47

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Professor Lauren B. Davis discusses her research on forecasting food bank operations and the uncertainty of food donations.

This episode of Forecasting Impact features Professor Lauren B. Davis discussing her research on applying stochastic modeling and forecasting to food bank operations. Lauren shares how she began forecasting with a local food bank, which led her to focus on forecasting the highly uncertain supply of food donations. She details the food banks' donation sourcing process, the management of their supply chains, and the application of models like exponential smoothing, support vector regression, an...

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