Spatial Data: make the most of your opportunities | Chris Grundy | TEDxLSHTM

[@tomkoch479]

Chris Grundy is one of the largely unsung experts in the field of computer-related data collection in health. What he describes is practical, simply and useful in the event of an evolving disease outbreak. There are, here, two take-aways. First, collecting data reflexively, and then collecting that data in a central place, provides a resource that is critical. Second, that in the event of an outbreak one need not be online to collect data. "Collect now, upload later," is the message. A future talk or paper hopefully will detail the new applications that can better be applied when in the midst of an outbreak or epidemic in far flung places.

[@snapsmicrosystems7532]

Spatial is special

[@lancee1043]

@ Chris Grundy (or if anyone reading knows of an answer)... You talked about easy tools for people to collect data so that we might be able to analyse it later once we realise where the value is in it. Logically that would then require some form of storage for all that data, which invokes big data and some level of financial restrictions on the volume of data. My question is... are you aware of any large data resources (preferably publicly available) where there are large pools of this diverse data mix you speak of. I know there are geocaching hobbyists, do they also capture pictures and/or text/number variables? And where do they store all this data? Is this kind of data being shared in some public forum? What I am hoping for is some database format resource which I can begin connecting simple software tools to and analyse for myself? I have a degree in GIS and have worked as an analyst. Your talk made me wonder how we can begin to wade (in a practical way) through this amassing data. I'm a practical person and want to be able to do it for myself.

[@uforoetim7286]

What apps is best suitable for this data collection sir?

[@rajcom87]

nice

[@optimusprime2105]

yep he saw covid coming lol