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> "[..] researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts." No concerns about private datasets in the open on Github ? I get they li
by johnchristopher 8y ago
> "[..] researchers used the platform to share and cross-check daily patient counts."
No concerns about private datasets in the open on Github ?
I get they like the workflow but they traded ethics for convenience there.
Medical ethics.
- jarfil 8y agoIf it's anonymized data, I see no problem. All scientific datasets should be in the open.
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- johnchristopher 8y agoIndeed, the first four repository I found for a google search with `ebola outbreak github` terms only have statistical data.
- Fomite 8y agoThese were publicly reported data sets of case counts. You can find them on various Ministry of Health websites. I know because I worked in the lab that maintained one of them. The biggest issue was that one country reported their data in non-machine readable form on Facebook. Maintaining that was extremely time intensive.