Data Collection, Management, Analysis And Mapping Using Odk, Stata And Qgis.

Dear All,

RE: DATA COLLECTION, MANAGEMENT, ANALYSIS AND MAPPING USING ODK, STATA AND QGIS

Tech For Development -T4D would like to invite you to a high impact Training Course in Data Collection, Management, Analysis And Mapping Using Odk, Stata And Qgis to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from 11th to 22nd Nov, 2019

Event Information

Course Name: Data Collection, Management, Analysis And Mapping Using Odk, Stata And Qgis.

Venue: Tech for Development Training Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Event Date: 11th to 22nd Nov, 2019

Course Fee: KES 75,000 OR USD 1,100

Online Registration: Register here

Introduction

ODK

Open data kit, commonly referred to as ODK is a set of popular free and open source tools that allow us to collect data using mobile devices. Being a pioneer tool of its nature, ODK is one of the most popular mobile data collection tools. The fact that ODK is free and open source also makes it a darling to users considering the budget constraints that come with projects. Other reasons for its popularity include but not limited to: Allows offline data collection, has an active online community and support base, ability to collect rich data (photos, audio, video, signature etc), ability to collect location data (points, traces and polygon), allows collaboration and data sharing.

Stata

From simple to complex datasets, STATA makes it easy for analysts to maximize the use of their data. Other than quantitative data analyses, STATA can be used for exploring and analyzing geo-tagged datasets. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) of STATA is user-friendly for beginners, and those not familiar with commands.

QGIS (Mapping)

A Geographic Information System is a multi-component environment used to create, manage, visualize and analyze data and its spatial counterpart. Most datasets you will encounter in your lifetime can all be assigned a spatial location whether on the earth’s surface or within some arbitrary coordinate system (such as a soccer field or a gridded petri dish). So, in essence, any dataset can be represented in a GIS.

Duration

10 days

Why this course

Data collection, management, analyses and mapping has always been a bully for many people, either because of their divergent academic background from research/statistics/GIS and/or mathematics, or because they have not been introduced well to understanding data and analyzing it for information purposes. Whether you are a researcher or a member of project management team, evidence-based decision making is becoming a mandatory tool in organizations and for prioritizing development needs.

Who should attend

Any person willing to learn mobile data collection using ODK, data management and analysis using STATA and mapping using QGIS to improve their general knowledge on data collection, management, analyses and mapping for academic research, organizational data, or wanting to switch to new technologies for data processing has the right footing to this course.

Requirements

Participants are advised to bring a PC laptop with Windows XP Service Pack 3 or later with at least 2GB of RAM. You should also ensure that the laptop is installed with a genuine antivirus and is well updated.

If your computer is password protected please ensure that you have the administrator password for the purpose of installing software during the training.

Course Outline

ODK (Mobile Data Collection)

Digitizing your questionnaire

Introduction to basic XLSForm syntax for survey authoring

Getting started – Survey authoring using XLSForm syntax

Types of questions

Form Validation and Conversion for ODK Aggregate

Troubleshooting common syntax errors

Device calibration (Mobile Phones/Tablets) – ODK Collect

Introduction to ODK Collect

ODK Collect installation and configuration

Uploading forms into ODK Collect manually

Downloading form into ODK Collect from ODK Aggregate server

Hosting survey data (Online) – ODK Aggregate

Introduction to Google app engine/Digital Ocean/AWS for ODK

Introduction to ODK Aggregate

ODK Aggregate – Download and setup

ODK Aggregate administration and calibration

Data analysis in ODK aggregate

Downloading data for analysis

Downloading data from ODK Aggregate

Introduction to ODK Briefcase

Download and setup ODK Briefcase

ODK Briefcase calibration and administration

Stata (Data Management and analysis)

Introduction to Data Management, Surveys and Experimental Designs

Data Collection Techniques

Introduction to STATA datasets, Edit, Browse, List, Generating Variables, Codebook, Use written programs) Data Management in STATA (Import, Data Labelling, Handling Duplicates, Missing Values, Reshape, Append, Merge, Collapse, Data Transformation, Creating Dummy Variables)

Data Exploration (Simple tables, cross tabulation with measures of association, Measures of Central Tendency, Outliers, Quartiles, Percentiles, Skewness, Kurtosis, Variance, Standard Deviation, Standard Errors, Ladder/Gladder)

Advanced Analyses (Normality tests, variance tests, t-tests, One-way & Two-way ANOVA, MANOVA, ANCOVA, OLS Regression, Logistic/Binomial Regression, Factor Analyses/PCA, GLM, Cox Regression, Other Regression Models)

QGIS (Mapping)

Introduction, cartography and GIS, and creating maps in QGIS

Basic conceptual understanding of cartography, GIS, and mapping

Gain familiarity with geographic data and information, and how it’s encoded within computer files

Gain a basic familiarity with the QGIS interface

Gain awareness of spatial reference and projection issues

Perform basic map styling

Create and export a basic map as a static image file

Thematic data mapping, Geocoding and point in polygon analysis

Load shape files and CSV data into QGIS

Data transformation

Create classed choropleth map

Adjust the legend to help the map tell a clearer story

Load tabular CSV data into QGIS and performing a tabular join

Learn about some of the geocoding tools available online

Understand and perform a point in polygon analysis

Heat maps, creating and editing vector Geometries

Map point data

Create a ‘heat map’ representation of the data

Georeferencing

Digitizing data

Digitizing data with Open Street Map in QGIS

Importing OpenStreetMap data: SpatialLite Database

Data filtering and extraction

Exporting layers to a local CRS

Extracting and preparing thematic OSM data

Filtering OSM data to create desired features

Using the Graphical Processing Modeler to automate workflows

Expected Training Outcomes

By the end of this training course participants will have learnt:

How to develop, manage and administer and implement a mobile data collection platform using ODK.

The core statistical concepts, clearly demonstrate data management and analyses skills in STATA.

How to develop maps and perform geographical data analysis in QGIS

Methodology

This instructor led training course is delivered using a blended learning approach and comprises of presentations, guided sessions of practical exercise, web based tutorials and group work. Our facilitators are seasoned industry experts with years of experience, working as professional and trainers in these fields.

All facilitation and course materials will be offered in English. The participants should be reasonably proficient in English.

Action plan

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Tailor-made training

This training course can also be tailored for your organization. This way, your organization will benefit by:

Using own datasets and tools during the training.

Being able to choose areas of interest you wish the trainer to put more emphasis on.

Taking the course in-house or at a venue of choice.

Cutting on the cost of transport and accommodation.

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FAQs

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How to participate

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Contact information

Email: [email protected]
Tel: +254 706909947
Website: www.t4d.co.ke

Kind regards.
Rose Muthoni,
Customer Relationship Officer,
Tech For Development
Innovation for impact