PHUSE Open Data Repository ("PODR")

PODR is powered by NIHPO’s Platform

Description

One challenge when using Open Data is that the raw data distributed by academic and government sources comes in multiple formats (CSV, Excel, XML). And sometimes a single dataset has used different file layouts over the years.

A second challenge with using Open Data is the need for users to integrate all those disparate datasets from multiple sources into an easy-to-search system.

PODR integrates health-related Open Data across agencies, within departments of each relevant agency, and across countries. PODR gives users a single interface to search across all available datasets.

NIHPO and PHUSE intend PODR to:

• Increase PHUSE member engagement with PHUSE’s Working Groups and events.
• Eliminate user’s time-consuming “Data Prep” process of loading and massaging raw data. “From Zero to Analysis” in under five minutes.
• Accelerate discovery of solutions to data-centric challenges posed by PHUSE sponsors, members.
• Make it easier for PHUSE members to learn new tools and technologies (Jupyter, Python, R).
• Give each PHUSE member the opportunity to quickly launch new projects and collaborative research projects with other members.
• Make data analytics accessible to all levels of users, from Excel users to power users.

And where PHUSE members will not need any IT involvement to use PODR.

Background

This is the presentation delivered during the launch webinar on 08 May 2020.

And this presentation outlines the concept of PHUSE as a "Glass Building" where members and other stakeholders come together in a spirit of total transparency. PHUSE as a Glass Building

Table of Contents

Here you can find relevant documents:

Documentation

Sample Code

Use Cases

Contributing

Any contribution to this repository will be free to use by PHUSE members.

Credits

PODR is an instance of the NIHPO Platform

The NIHPO Platform integrates health-related Open Data across agencies, within departments of each relevant agency, and across countries. The NIHPO Platform gives users a single interface to search across all available datasets.

License

Materials posted in this repository are free to use with proper credit to the materials' author.