Mobile Data Collection Using Open Data Kit
Using Formhub to create your survey and collect data.
Flexible survey designMobile and desktop data collection
Mark Spohr, MD, USA
ODK and Formhub
Survey Design Data Collection Data Analysis
Formhub.org
Download to spreadsheet
Formhub.org
Android mobile
Web page
XLSForm
formhub.org
Survey Design
Start with one of the prepared survey forms Formhub.org/mspohr Pick a form Download it in XLSForm format You can edit it in any spreadsheet program
Formhub.org/syntax Upload the form to your own Formhub account.
Choose a Form
Click on the orange form name:
Download XLSForm
You can edit the form
Create your own Formhub Account
Formhub.org Click on “Sign Up” and Register your account
Upload your form to your account
Choose File and click Publish
Enter Data
You can enter data directly into the web form: Click on “Enter Web Form”
You can install ODK Collect from the Google Play Store and enter data on your Android mobile device
Analyze Data
After you have uploaded data, you can view and filter it on Formhub... or...
You can download in spreadsheet format
Additional Resources
Form Design Data Collection
Data Analysis
ODK Aggregate
DHIS2
ODK CollectODK Build
ODK Build
ODK Build is a form designer with a drag-and-drop user interface. Build is an HTML5 web application and works best for designing simple forms.
http://opendatakit.org/use/build/ For more powerful form designers, try
XLS2XForm, Vellum, or Kobo, or PurcForms.
ODK Collect
ODK Collect renders forms into a sequence of input prompts that apply form logic, entry constraints, and repeating sub-structures. Users work through the prompts and can save the submission at any point. Finalized submissions can be sent to (and new forms downloaded from) a server. Currently, ODK Collect uses the Android platform, supports a wide variety of prompts (text, number, location, multimedia, barcodes), and works well without network connectivity.
http://opendatakit.org/use/collect/
ODK Aggregate
ODK Aggregate provides a ready-to-deploy server and data repository to: provide blank forms to ODK Collect (or other OpenRosa
clients), accept finalized forms (submissions) from ODK Collect and
manage collected data, visualize the collected data using maps and simple graphs, export data (e.g., as CSV files for spreadsheets, or as KML
files for Google Earth), and publish data to external systems (e.g., Google Spreadsheets
or Google Fusion Tables).
http://opendatakit.org/use/aggregate/
SuperCourse Links
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Research library:
http://ssc.bibalex.org/helpdesk/introduction.jsf
Supercourse Research Methods:
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ResearchMethods/index14.htm
Mark Spohr: [email protected]
Supercourse: [email protected]