Open Access Data

Dataset Collections Available Online from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

 

United States CDC MMWR 122 Cities P&I mortality

 

CDC MMWR 122 Cities.csv

 

CDC EARS Simulation Data Sets

 

CDC Wonder

 

The National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS)

• Provides a limited-use data set upon request (in other words, it is not available on-line). The NNDSS data release guidelines indicate the data elements that can be released and which nationally notifiable diseases have different procedures for data release.

 

2008 ISDS Technical Contest on Outbreak Detection using Univariate Time Series: test and training data

• The Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence (CNPHI) agreed to make permanently available for academic use the surveillance datasets employed in the first ISDS technical contest. The original arrangement was a standard one that these datasets be destroyed after use for the contest. However, in the interests of cooperation and progress of global research in disease surveillance and in view of the contest success, CNPHI has agreed to a permanent use arrangement.
• Signing of formal agreements will not be required for use of these datasets. The modest stipulations are that 1) details of any methods developed with these data be made publicly available and 2) the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence be acknowledged in related publications and presentations.
• Contest Testing Data (zip file)
• Contest Training Data (zip file)

 

Project Mimic

• 10 simulated mimics from authentic data, 6 series (3 Resp, 3 GI): based on methods in Simulating Multivariate Syndromic Time Series and Outbreak Signatures, Thomas Lotze, Galit Shmueli, Inbal Yahav

 

Open access data sites for Scotland

• Information Services Division [ISD Scotland] is a business operating unit of NHS Scotland, which brings together key national datasets. e.g Inpatient, Day Case & Outpatient Activity http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/4334.html
• ScotPHO is the Scottish Public Health Observatory – it provides an introduction to the national data schemes and has some European links. http://www.scotpho.org.uk/home/resources/OverviewofKeyDataSources/Otherdatasources/international_data_sources.asp
• The General Register Office for Scotland holds population data, e.g. causes of death; and other demographic data http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/publications-and-data/vital-events/vital-events-reference-tables-2006/section-6-deaths-causes.html