Identifying Potential Positive Deviants (PDs) across rice producing areas in Indonesia: An application of Big Data analytics and approaches

A stepwise approach for the identification and validation of positive deviants (PD) rice villages in Indonesia i.e. villages with significantly higher agricultural productivity in comparison to neighbouring villages with similar socio-economic and environmental conditions. It is a step towards building evidence for the use of big data to facilitate PD related development programming in agriculture.