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Deciphering the Anatomy of Morbidity in Canada

The HackSeq18 Anatomy of Morbidity project space.

Article: https://www.datadriveninvestor.com/2019/06/30/hacking-disease-and-death/

Mission

Everyone — corporations, governments, individuals — has data, but few people know how to use it effectively. Data can tell us much about how to make better decisions, but often this knowledge is hidden within the numbers. In this hackathon, we will be using Vital Statistics open data that's available in the form of large unstructured statistics into user-friendly, dynamic, and interactive plots and maps.

Abstract

Since 2016, the world has been implementing United Nation's Agenda for Sustainable Development, by addressing urgent global challenges over the next 15 years. This mandate is undertaken differently in various countries. In Canada, data on deaths and causes of death are collected by the Canadian Vital Statistics and released as a 'Death Database'. This database is an administrative survey that collects demographic and medical (cause of death) information annually from all provincial vital statistics registries on all deaths in Canada. The problem with the existing open datasets, however, are that they are too large and the categories are not well defined nor useful for non-data experts. Our hypothesis-driven solution enables interactive visualizations so that the information within the databases are more readily accessible, user-friendly, and interactive. We employ the free and open-source integrated development environment for R as part of our workflow to categorize diseases based on gender and age in time. This data is then summarized in the form of static and dynamic plots as well as interactive maps.

Team Haiku

How does death approach?
When will you run out of time?
Hacking shows the way
-Marion Shadbolt

Team Members

Eva Yap, Katarina Priecelova, Shannon Lo, Rachel Miller, Mariam Arab, Kasey Zhang, Emily Gong, Sophia Chan, Adil Imtiaz, Uyen Nguyen, Lisa Cao, Marion Shadbolt, Raissa Phillibert, Noushin Nabavi

Schedule

Friday

Time Event
8:30 Coffee & Snacks
9:00 hackseq kickoff
9:30 Team meet
10:00 Introduction to the data, brainstorming, group-forming
11:30 Intro to Git/Github Workshop (optional)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Assign tasks and start hacking
17:00 Team Scrum & wrap-up
17:30 Unofficial Evening Social

Saturday

Time Event
8:30 Coffee & Snacks
9:00 Re-cap and planning meeting
9:30 Hackity hacking
11:00 check-in
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Hacking
15:30 check-in
17:00 Team Scrum & wrap-up
17:30 Evening Social

Sunday

Time Event
8:30 Coffee & Snacks
9:00 Re-cap and planning meeting
9:30 Last-minute hacking
11:00 check-in
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Finishing touches
15:30 Team Project Presentations
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00 HackSeq18 Wrap-up

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