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Peter Winstanley

Wendy Thomas


Agenda: 

Introduction - SimonH

Infectious diseases - Laura, Fernando

  • Background material
  • concentrate on Ebola
  • big problem with sub-standard/falsified pharmaceuticals
  • population at risk from sub-optimal treatments
  • Many datasets are not published using standards, in some cases not even data-dictionaries,
    • many data dictionaries are highly bespoke
    • Visual recognition used to 
  • in some cases need special software (e.g. geospatial), or need to pay, or to register
    • paywalls and registration demands are a big problem - !A from FAIR

SimonC: How many of the datasets are visible in Google Dataset Search?