From the course: Using Public Health Dashboards

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts.

Data sources

Data sources

From the course: Using Public Health Dashboards

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Data sources

“

- Not only are dashboards available for the general public, users can also get access to the data as well. In some sense, you can consider this as a way of democratization for data, but even if the data is available, we still have to determine whether or not dashboards are an ideal way to use that data. And then, of course, to think a little deeper about how we can actually benefit. If it's not beneficial, what can we do to make it beneficial? And, most importantly, when we think about the interaction between the data, as well as the dashboard, we always want to think about, what do we know and what don't we know. From a data standpoint, that means are there variables we're not collecting, is there information that we don't have that we need. From a technology standpoint, we have to take into consideration that all the data is not necessarily viewable if you are not looking at the files themselves. If you're not…

Contents