Mobile Data Collection

Using Open Data Kit

Using Formhub to create your survey and collect

data.
Flexible survey design
Mobile and desktop data collection

Mark Spohr, MD, USA

 ODK and Formhub
Survey Design Data Collection Data Analysis

XLSForm Formhub.org Formhub.org

formhub.org Android mobile Download to
Web page spreadsheet
 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 Data Analysis

Collection

ODK Build ODK Collect ODK

Aggregate
DHIS2
 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