Data Retrieval Tools
This tools provides a single point of access for a variety of public health data and statistics. You can access information on mortality, morbidity, natality, Injury etc. Example of the types of questions that this tool can help answer: How many under one-yearold babies died of homicide in the US in 1999?
Interactive database system for Injury data. Data is categorized as fatal and non-fatal. Example of the types of questions that this tool can help answer: Do more boys suffer from dog bite than girls do in 2001.
Has these databases: US mortality statistics, Cancer prevalence information, probability of developing or dying from cancer.
Behavior data collected from the largest continuously conducted telephone health survey in the world. Has data on risk behaviors related to chronic diseases, injuries and death. Example of the types of questions that this tool can help answer: In 2000, how often did people in Connecticut eat fruits and vegetables every day by race.
MEPSnet (Medical Expenditure Panel Survey) Query Tool
Survey data on health care use and costs in the US. Data on specific health services that americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope and breadth of private health insurance held by and available to US population. Ex: In 1999, how many emergency room visits were made and how much did the ER facilities and physicians charge?
Hospital Compare includes information that will help consumers compare the quality of information available in hospital outpatient departments.
This tool has detailed information about every Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country. Before you get started, you or your family member may have other long-term care choices like community-based services, home care, or assisted living depending on your needs and resources.
NHQRDRnet is an online query system that allows you to access national and State data on the quality of, and access to, health care from scientifically credible measures and data sources. With NHQRDRnet you can Access data on particular clinical conditions such as asthma, diabetes, etc.; Access data for different care areas such as lifestyle modification and palliative care; (iii) Track and display trends over time for national estimates on selected measures, including dimensions of health care quality, stages of health care, clinical conditions, settings of care, and access to health care; Access data for quality of health care, access to health care, or priority populations.
Gateway to statistics from over 100 US Federal agencies.
US Census Bureau data. Ex: demographic data for population in Farmingham, Connecticut
Corona SDK is a Lua based framework that allows any developer who knows a scripting language to write mobile applications across platforms without having to rewrite code or recreate assets. Write your mobile app 10X faster with fewer lines of code and publish on iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Data Visualization Tools
Factual is a platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. It provides an open data repository, collaborative tools, data sourcing and accountability. Factual was founded in 2007 by Gil Elbaz, co-founder of Applied Semantics (AdSense), which was acquired by Google in 2003.
A Social Data Discovery solution combines elements of leading-edge technologies – Social Networking, Cloud Computing, Data Visualization and Analytics, mobile and location-based services, Internet-scale Data Serving, and Web Publishing – into a social, participatory experience for online audiences.
Google Fusion Tables is a free service for sharing and visualizing data online. It allows you to upload and share data, merge data from multiple tables into interesting derived tables, and see the most up-to-date data from all sources.
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The IdeaTree Javascript API allows you to embed dynamic network relationship graphs within your web application. A variety of node and edge shapes and colors are available, and nodes can be linked to URLs.
Blog article on how to create linked data from CSV files using Freebase Gridworks (via data.gov.uk). Freebase is an open, Creative Commons licensed repository of structured data of more than 12 million entities.
MEDgle is a semantic web (Web3.0) service transforming over 70 million probabilistic medical concept relationships (symptoms, diagnoses, diagnostic tests, medications, therapeutic solutions, ages, genders, lifestyles, genetics) in eight languages, into actionable choices, through artificial intelligence algorithms.
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