Inspiration
Lots of people have health and human services data, but it's all in different structures and formats. Many groups want to share their data, or use data that's shared with them, but the lack of standardized data or an easy way to standardize the data presents a major barrier.
What it does
Converts messy health and human services data into an interoperable format for community organizations to use
How we built it
Built using Ruby to convert the data as well as building an API to expose the service
Challenges we ran into
Learning Ruby
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Learning Ruby Getting it working with passing tests Able to use it on additional data sets as well, not just the test data sets
What we learned
Ruby Data manipulation YAML HTTP
What's next for Open Referral Transformer
Better documentation Containerization(docker) Plugging in to integrate with the open-referral-validator
Gist
https://gist.github.com/switzersc/9f1776cdb473f2a663500e955fd7f7f8
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