ruODK? Electronic Data Capture with R and ODK: From form design to insight in 0$

Electronic Data Capture (EDC) as a replacement for traditional paper-based data capture can streamline the path from observation to analysis by cutting out redundant, resource-intensive, and error-prone steps of data transcription. OpenDataKit (ODK, https://opendatakit.org/) is a Free and Open Source (FOSS) software suite for EDC. ODK has a world-wide user community (https://forum.opendatakit.org/), an active developer community, a sustainable business model, comes at no cost to users, and is targeted towards resource-restricted, remote and offline data capture. ODK users include Google, WHO, CDC, USAID, the Red Cross and Red Crescent, the Carter Center, the Jane Goodall Institute and many others.
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In this session, we will run through the process of EDC end to end, with the option of participating in each step.
We will design a new EDC form using the online form builder ODK Build (https://build.opendatakit.org/), then publish the form on DBCA's ODK Central instance (https://odkcentral.dbca.wa.gov.au/, credentials given out on the day), download the forms, capture and submit some data using ODK Collect, and lastly use ruODK to access, wrangle, and analyse the data using ruODK.
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Interested participants can obtain a login to the ODK Central Sandbox (https://sandbox.central.opendatakit.org/), so they can continue to evaluate ODK (with our without ruODK) in a no-cost environment.

Details
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Activity: Live demo and code-along for those who are keen

Duration: ca 45 mins; some prep for audience hands-on beforehand

Target audience: Practicing R users with an interest in electronic data capture using FOSS.

If interested in hands-on, bring:

• To build your own form: Sign up for a free account at https://build.opendatakit.org/
• To collect your own data: Bring an Android device with ODK Collect installed.
• To access and analyse the data: Bring a Laptop with R and ruODK with dependencies intstalled (https://dbca-wa.github.io/ruODK/)
  Come 30 mins early to do your ruODK/ODK Collect installation on the day.
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  ​​About the presenter
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  Florian Mayer is an Ecoinformatician at the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) working on threatened species and ecological communities with a focus on marine turtles (North West Shelf Flatback Turtle Conservation Program, https://flatbacks.dbca.wa.gov.au/). Florian has introduced ODK to DBCA's and affiliated Western Australian turtle monitoring programs in 2016 (~30k records captured through ~500 staff and volunteers since 2016) and authored ruODK.
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  Florian.Mayer@dbca.wa.gov.au
  https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-mayer-9633085b/
  https://github.com/florianm/
  https://twitter.com/fistful_of_bass