Timeline for What is a good software for data collection à la CDC's Epi Info?
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| May 4, 2012 at 10:14 | vote | accept | Ankush | ||
| May 1, 2012 at 23:58 | history | edited | Ankush | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2012 at 19:44 | answer | added | Matt Parker | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 1, 2012 at 17:55 | history | edited | Ankush | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | Ankush | Secondly, Epi Info is painfully slow and its giving me some hard time whether to place confidence in it for a such a huge data especially when merging will be required and when reimporting of the data will be required after editing it in excel (geocoding and other cleaning discrepancies). Personally latest version has a very good Dashboard for data analysis, but many among us are in favour of SPSS. @Jonathan | |
| May 1, 2012 at 17:39 | comment | added | Ankush | The whole data is hand written (literally scribbled) and is indeed inconsistent at many places. Although I have almost designed the whole form in Epi Info which involves drop down boxes, radio buttons, check boxes and takes advantage of Check Code wherever required. My concerns with Epi Info are- the present version ie., EI7 though promises to incorporate Geocode, unfortunately I could not get it to work, even after getting separate keys from Bing. But, as a potential solution I would be using Google API, which would though limit queries ~2500/day/IP (yes there are workarounds). | |
| May 1, 2012 at 17:10 | comment | added | Jonathan | Also it would help to know why you are looking for an alternative to Epi Info. There are many potential tools and knowing more about your desires will help with making a recommendation. Is it too slow/costly? Not enough data validation? etc. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 17:08 | comment | added | Jonathan | Can you tell us more about the data format, and edit the original question to include the information in there? The more details the better. For example, if the data is typed/printed on paper and present on consistent styles of forms, you will probably want to use one of the many form-scanning-OCR solutions out there. If it's handwritten or inconsistent then you will need more manual methods. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 15:47 | comment | added | Ankush | The data has been already collected, but its all in papers, spanning over five years. It contains ~22 fields and is for many individuals, by that I mean >100,000. Im from India, although Im in a medical college, this project is our sole endeavor (i.e, self funded). Double data entry proposal in on table but a final call on check mechanisms will be taken only after the pilot study. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 15:25 | comment | added | Matt Parker | Can you give us a better idea of what kind of data you're collecting? Is this cross-sectional? Longitudinal? Are you collecting many fields for a few individuals, a few fields for many individuals, many for many? How massive is massive? What country are you in, and which institutions are you affiliated with? Are you doing double data entry? We need so much more info! | |
| May 1, 2012 at 13:12 | answer | added | Er. Sumit Machra | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 1, 2012 at 11:34 | comment | added | Ankush | Yes, Im looking for a data entry software, which would enable me to create data entry operator friendly forms which after filling would in turn generate a database in an excel sheet. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 11:11 | comment | added | pmgjones | Are you looking for data entry software (database) or statistical analysis software? Be more specific and perhaps we can help. | |
| May 1, 2012 at 10:35 | history | edited | chl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2012 at 7:22 | history | asked | Ankush | CC BY-SA 3.0 |