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: mhspohr@gmail.com

Supercourse: super1@pitt.edu