Open data in public health

Epidemiology class 2014

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1. Open data is your
   friend
   no really, it is
   

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2. maia sauren
   

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3. maia sauren
   

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4. Open
   Knowledge
   Foundation
   Australia
   “spreading good vibes
   about openness”
   

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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)
   

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6. Data
   Data
   Information
   Knowledge
   Understanding
   Wisdom
   

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7. the good
   

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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/
   

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11. £27/month wasted
    on branded statins for cholesterol treatments - not proven
    !
    http://prescribinganalytics.com/
    

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12. risk perception
    

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13. http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/
    

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15. the bad
    

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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/
    

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18. the ugly
    

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19. Google Flu Trends
    overestimated by 50% peak Christmas flu of 2012 (US)
    correlation is not causation
    

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20. herd immunity
    

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21. the ????
    

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23. the effective
    

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24. State of the climate 2014 (CSIRO & BoM)
    

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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.”
    

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26. get involved
    

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27. hackathons
    they’re for everyone
    

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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/
    

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29. HealthHack 2013
    6 researchers
    1 clear problem each
    5-6 per team
    1 weekend
    

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34. questions?
    maia@thoughtworks.com
    

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