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Methodbox: Preparing for National Service

Methodbox: Preparing for National Service. Shoaib Sufi 11/10/11. Obesity Epidemic.

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Methodbox: Preparing for National Service

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  1. Methodbox:Preparing for National Service Shoaib Sufi 11/10/11

  2. Obesity Epidemic Fragmented understandingof public health problems such as obesity...data, methods/models and expertisesplit acrossdisciplines(e.g. social vs. biomedical)and settings (e.g. academia vs. healthcare)

  3. Puddles of research around the organising principle … but policies need the big picture

  4. Cross disciplinary research • ProblemLots of data + un-connected expertise • SolutionEasier to find relevant data + find experts/expertise • www.methodbox.org

  5. Investigation Cycle Results Tooling Community Data Analysis Models Publications, Reports or Decisions Questions • Our Tooling focus is (survey) Data and Analysis • Our main Community focus is Expertise via Methods/Analysis/Scripts

  6. Examples: HSE 2006 data set 208 pages 13 pages @1800 Variables Questionnaire Instructions Survey Description 148 pages 224 pages Questions used To set variables Variable Definitions Variable Categories Variable SPSS code Variable Value Domains 9 pages 351 pages 46 MB data files Data and Variable Codebook

  7. All HSE HSE 18 datasets in all of HSE

  8. HSE Just 5 surveys HSE HSE HSE HSE HSE HSE MethodBox serves 69 surveys !

  9. MethodBox Features • Searching for Surveys, Datasets, Variables • Exploring Variable data summaries • Shopping metaphor for Variable selection • Creating Subsets • User Profiles • Security (Authentication/Authorisation) • Groups & Public links • Upload Scripts • Comments and notes • Linking resources • Registering PubMed Id or DOI publications • Upload your own survey style data (CSV + DDI2)

  10. e-Lab Research Object Research protocol Statistical analysis scripts Data-sources Analysis-logs & notes Find Share Reuse Data-preparation scripts Figures/Graphics Working datasets Manuscripts References Slides Socially-stimulating science, in-silico

  11. www.methodbox.org

  12. survey results

  13. variable results & details

  14. Quotes • MethodBox just seems to be a lot more intuitive… You can just put in 'bus + scotland' or whatever it was and it will just go 'ta-da!'. It's all relevant and you can understand what's come up. You don't just get a load of codes and titles of surveys. • I'd use MethodBox to see if there were other suitable datasets [for my PhD research]. It would be useful to see if I could get more detailed or more recent stuff as well. If anything did come up, if I thought, 'oh that looks quite interesting' I can just go off on a tangent and have a look at habitualized recycling behaviour or whatever. I can just look at specific things that maybe the main dataset that I'm using doesn't have. I can use it to explore other options.

  15. How MethodBox fits in MethodBox Survey Navigation Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) Survey Mapping Improving Access & Use UK Data Archive (UKDA) Survey Curation Survey Commissioning & Collection etc… diagram not to scale

  16. Where we are upto • MethodBox launched at an ESDS government event April 2010 (5.7/7 from 15 responses) • 69 surveys available (e.g. HSE) • 259 datasets (e.g. HSE 2008) • 176 data extracts • 51 scripts • 400 unique visits in the last month (up 25%)

  17. Sustainability • Meet Data Provider requirements • Curation (content vs. service) • Support • Scaling (further surveys) • Licensing • Branding • Formative evaluation usability/improvements • Knowledge transfer – building a close link with the delivery team at UKDA • Platform for further developing ‘Amazon like features’

  18. Vanessa Higgins Rob Haines Caroline Jay

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