methodbox: preparing for national service
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Methodbox:Preparing for National Service
Shoaib Sufi11/10/11
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Obesity Epidemic
Fragmented understandingof public health problems such as obesity
...data, methods/models and expertisesplit across
disciplines (e.g. social vs. biomedical)
and settings (e.g. academia vs. healthcare)
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Puddles of researcharound the organising principle
… but policies need the big picture
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Cross disciplinary research
• ProblemLots of data + un-connected expertise
• SolutionEasier to find relevant data + find experts/expertise
• www.methodbox.org
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Investigation Cycle
Data
•Our Tooling focus is (survey) Data and Analysis•Our main Community focus is Expertise via Methods/Analysis/Scripts
AnalysisModels
Results
Questions Publications, Reports or Decisions
ToolingCommunity
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Examples: HSE 2006 data set
13 pages208 pages
Variable DefinitionsVariable CategoriesVariable SPSS code
Questionnaire Instructions
224 pages
Questions usedTo set variables
148 pages
Survey Description
9 pagesVariable Value
Domains 351 pages46 MB data files
Data and Variable Codebook
@1800 Variables
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HSE
All HSE18 datasets in all of HSE
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Just 5 surveysHSE
HSE
HSE
HSE
HSE
HSE
HSE
MethodBox serves 69 surveys !
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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)
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e-Lab
Socially-stimulating science, in-silico
Research Object
FindShareReuse
Data-sources
Data-preparation scripts
Research protocol Statistical analysis scripts
Slides
Working datasets
Figures/Graphics
Manuscripts
References
Analysis-logs & notes
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www.methodbox.org
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survey results
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variable results & details
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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.
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How MethodBox fits in
UK Data Archive(UKDA)
MethodBox
Economic and Social Data Service(ESDS)
Survey Curation
Survey Mapping
diagram not to scale
Survey Navigation
Survey Commissioning & Collection
etc…
Impr
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& U
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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%)
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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’
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Vanessa Higgins
Rob Haines
Caroline Jay