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Page 1: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

Free* Epidemiology “Stuff”2020 Edition

Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

Page 2: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

R

• www.r-project.org• (Recommended: + http://www.rstudio.com/)• Functions: (most) statistical methods you may need

+ GIS capabilities + Network Analysis + many other• Beautiful graphs!

Page 3: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

GIS and Mapping Network Analysis and Plotting

Page 4: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

DIY cluster• Amazon AWS Free Tier (12 months)

• https://aws.amazon.com/free/• + http://www.louisaslett.com/RStudio_AMI/

• For non-HIPAA protected data only!!!

Page 5: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

QGIS

• Geographic Information System. Works on Mac!• URL: www.qgis.org

Page 6: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

Other Free GIS Software

• GeoDa (Spatial Regression and Clustering)• URL: https://geodacenter.asu.edu/

• SatSCAN (Clustering)• http://www.satscan.org/

• EpiMap (part of Epi Info)

Page 7: Free* Epidemiology Software · Free* Epidemiology “Stuff” 2020 Edition Amelia Wallace – adapted from Usama Bilal and Scott McClure

GEPHI (Networks)

• www.gephi.org

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Joinpoint

• Analysis of Trends • URL: http://surveillance.cancer.gov/joinpoint/

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Daggity• Browser app. URL: http://www.dagitty.net/

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EpiInfo

• URL: https://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/index.html• Data entry, analysis, visualization, etc

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Make your own graphics• Vectr – Most basic, easy to learn

• Have to convert SVG file to EMF file for older PowerPoint

• https://cloudconvert.com/svg-to-emf• Inkscape – More advanced, harder to learn

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What data to use the above on?

Other: • H-CUPnet – free limited version of HCUP –

health care utilization costs• NHIS – National Health Interview Survey• BRFSS – Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance

System• NHCS – National Health of Children Survey• HRS – Health and Retirement Survey• ACS – American Communities Survey

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/

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Other Software

• Do not forget that JHU provides free access to many (costly) software packages

• SAS University• MATLAB (search “matlab jhu”)• ArcGIS (search “GIS library jhu”) • (And Office 2016, Windows 10, etc…)

• https://jhu.onthehub.com/

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Misc• “Free knowledge”: books

• https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/• Click on Catalog. Check “Show only

items available online”. Search.• Also (most) Springer books available

for $25 (paperback)• Referencing

• Mendeley• www.mendeley.com• Good for collaboration and PDF Storage

• Zotero• Browser oriented (Firefox) or

Standalone + Browser add-on (Firefox, Chrome, Safari)