Introduction
Technology has introduced new ways of collecting data for monitoring and evaluation that does not require the use of papers such as through the Mobile Data Collection (MDC). Using the MDC data is collected on the phone and transmitted to a server for analysis. This training will equip the participants with skills to author, field and manage mobile data collection platform using ODK.
Course Objectives
By the end of the training the participants will be able to:
- Create survey forms using Build or XLSForms
- Upload forms to an Aggregate server
- Load forms into Collect on an Android device
- Fill out forms with participants using Collect
- Upload survey data from Collect to Aggregate
- Analyze or export data in Aggregate
Duration: 5 Days
Target Audience
This course is aimed at organizational staffs who are conducting field data collection activities.
Course Outline
Introduction to Mobile Data Collection
- Introduction to collection of mobile data
- Platforms for collection of mobile data
- Advantages of Mobile Applications
- Challenges
- Aggregation, storage, and dissemination of data
- Types of questions in a questionnaire
Introduction to Open Data Kit (ODK)
- Components of Open Data Kit (ODK)
- ODK Form
- ODK Collect Application Interface
- ODK Aggregate
- ODK Manage
- Platforms and formats of ODK
- Download and installation of ODK collect into mobile phones
Designing and Creating forms using ODK Build
- Creating ODK Collect Forms:
o Downloading forms;
o Using Excel to create ODK Data Collect Form
- Creating and Publishing forms to Aggregate or XML
- Designing forms directly on:
o ODK Build
o Kobo form builder
o PurcForms
Creating and Designing XLS form
- Introduction to XLS forms syntax
- Manually creating XLS forms
- Constraints & Skips
- Form validation
ODK Collect
- Installation and Setup of ODK Collect
- Menus, Settings and Security of ODK Collect
- Form Management in Collect
- ODK Collect Best practices
ODK Aggregate Server
- Using Google App Engine to set up own aggregate server
- ODK Aggregate Server configuration
- Creating a server
- Uploading the form to aggregate server
- Submission of completed data to aggregate server
- Exporting data from ODK Aggregate as CSV
- Importing ODK – CSV file into statistical applications
Visualizing Geographic Data
- Direct download of data from Aggregate
- Outputting data through;
o Google Spreadsheet
o Google Fusion Tables
- GPS Coordinates (Google maps) exportation to Fusion Tables
- GPS data exportation for Mapping/Visualizing (fusion map)
- Data exportation to Fusion Tables using QGIS