Tefodee is an online academy operated by Tech For Development (T4D), an international tech consultancy and capacity-building firm located in Nairobi, Kenya. We help people, businesses, organizations, and governments leverage technology for optimal results.
Duration
5 Days
What you will learn
- Form Building: Create powerful forms that include ODK Entities, photos, GPS locations, skip logic, calculations, external datasets, multiple languages, and more.
- Offline & Online Data Collection: Collect data anywhere using ODK Collect on mobile phones and the web using Enketo, even without an Internet connection. Sync your forms and submissions seamlessly when you’re back online.
- Data Hosting: Host ODK Central server and data in the ODK Cloud and on a Digital Ocean cloud server
- Data Analysis: Learn to download your data as a CSV or link ODK to tools like Excel, Power BI, Tableau Python, or R to create live-updating dashboards for real-time insights.
What can you do with ODK?
- Build/digitize a data collection form/questionnaire/survey using Excel or Google Sheets using the XLSForm syntax
- Collect data offline on a mobile device and send it to a cloud server.
- Collect longitudinal data
- Collect case management data
- Collect data online using web forms
- Stream data to analysis and dashboard applications like Excel, Power BI, Tableau, R or Python
- Manage users, including data collectors and managers
How has ODK been used in the past?
Open Data Kit (ODK) has been used to:
- Observe elections
- Monitor rainforests
- Track outbreaks,
- Conduct one-off surveys
- Rapid assessments
- Baseline studies
- Project mid-term evaluations
- Project end-term evaluations
- Market research
- During and directly following disasters, and in many other cases.
Who should take this course?
Researchers, project officers, M&E specialists, field team members, or professionals looking to streamline their data collection process.
Course Requirements
- A laptop
- Intermediate computing skills
- A mobile device running the Android OS
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets
- Access to the internet
- Proficiency in English
Topics to be covered
- ODK Collect
- Enketo
- XLSForm Syntax
- ODK Central
- Hosting ODK Central on the ODK Cloud
- Hosting ODK Central on Digital Ocean
- ODK Central with Power BI
- ODK Central with Tableau
- ODK Central with Excel
- ODK Central with Python
- ODK Central with R
- ODK Validate
- ODK Briefcase
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