NHS digital 2.0

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  preliminary data analysis

Inspiration

We found the NHS digital data to be challenging to handle and manipulate. The preprocessing takes a long time before any interesting analysis can be done on the actual data. Therefore we decided to develop an interactive data platform that will allow an easier manipulation, storage and interaction with nhs data. We called it nhs digital 2.0

What it does

It stores all the nhs data online on a server, so there is no need to download it onto your machine. There is no need in merging many (over 500 individual csv files!), its already all done for you, just use the easy sort function and get analysing. Any researcher or data scientist will be able to acquire the graph they need for their research in an instant.

How we built it

We used postgres , flask, sqlalchemy, python, javascript to build the platform. Python and R was used to analyse data

Challenges we ran into

The manipulation of nhs dataset and the API building. Connecting nhs datasets and finding them on nhs websites

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Functioning api server that can be used by other people enabling further research

What we learned

Efficient data storage is essential for good analysis and teamwork is key

What's next for NHS digital 2.0

add more data, add more drugs as they are published, more features, more interactivity between the user and the API

Built With

• api
• css
• html
• javascript
• python