Open data in public health

Epidemiology class 2014

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1. Open data is your friend no really, it is
2. maia sauren
3. maia sauren
4. Open Knowledge Foundation Australia “spreading good vibes about openness”
5. Open “A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike.” ! - http://opendefinition.org ! (but not everything can be open)
6. Data Data Information Knowledge Understanding Wisdom
7. the good
8. Norway, Denmark, Netherlands announced cutting Uganda’s ODA by $15+m • Freely available data from International Aid Transparency Initiative • Only tools designed to help make IATI data accessible - easy! • 75% of Uganda’s ODA spent on health • …which is provided by the US, the UK, and the Global Fund ! ! • http://opendevtoolkit.net/2014/02/26/uganda-anti-homosexuality- bill/
11. £27/month wasted on branded statins for cholesterol treatments - not proven ! http://prescribinganalytics.com/
12. risk perception
13. http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
15. the bad
17. Per capita consumption of cheese correlates with Number of people who died by becoming tangled in their bedsheets (Correlation: 0.947091) ! http://www.tylervigen.com/
18. the ugly
19. Google Flu Trends overestimated by 50% peak Christmas flu of 2012 (US) correlation is not causation
20. herd immunity
21. the ????
23. the effective
24. State of the climate 2014 (CSIRO & BoM)
25. statistically significant vs significant Bennett et al. “Neural Correlates of Interspecies Perspective Taking in the Post-Mortem Atlantic Salmon: An Argument For Proper Multiple Comparisons Correction” Journal of Serendipitous and Unexpected Results, 2010 “I need a full length Atlantic Salmon. For science.”
26. get involved
27. hackathons they’re for everyone
28. types of hackathons Hack for a cause Hack on new technology Hack as R&D Hack alongside conferences Marketing hack day Hack for app building (danger) ! ! http://mulqueeny.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/types-of-hack-day/
29. HealthHack 2013 6 researchers 1 clear problem each 5-6 per team 1 weekend
34. questions? maia@thoughtworks.com