I've been following the posts a little, while downloading excel
format data on emergency medical services across the US. We need to
have these data examined in forty eleven different ways and we need
to know what peculiar combinations exist for different locations to
keep people alive.
It seems to me that these data sets that are available for
downloading, as long as you agree to a few restrictions to protect
privacy and understand these data are not perfect, yet, and analyses
of your choice.
Look, I'm including below the notice sent out today to the NEMSiS
list, and would like to know if you decide to tackle the data with
freebase, how are you doing it, and where you will post your
results. The reality now is that we need what the members of the
list are working on applied to these data sets. The data sets, and
their natural relationship data sets are going to continue to grow.
Dwight Hines
St. Augustine, Florida
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"Greetings from the NEMSIS Technical Assistance Center:
We are pleased to announce that the NEMSIS National Reporting System
based upon the National EMS Data Base is available! The web-based
system can be found on the NEMSIS web site (www.nemsis.org) under the
NEMSIS Reporting tab (click on “National Reports”).
We invite you to visit and use the reports and, most importantly,
provide us feedback regarding their usefulness. We are striving to
provide you the best possible product and need to hear from you to
enhance the impact of the national reports on the EMS system as a whole.
It should be noted that there are limitations to the data that are
available. First, these data are not “population-based” and do not
represent conditions of the nation or any individual state submitting
data to NEMSIS (i.e., most states currently submit a portion of all
state EMS runs). Second, the data are not formally “cleaned” and,
therefore, represent the information as submitted by each state.
Although basic cleaning is completed by the NEMSIS TAC, some data
inconsistencies are retained to aid states with quality assessments.
We welcome you to use and become familiar with the national reports.
As the data base grows, so will the usefulness and validity of the
National EMS Data Base."
David J. Owens
Program Director
National EMS Information System
University of Utah - Department of Pediatrics
Intermountain Injury Control Research Center
295 Chipeta Way
PO Box 581289
Salt Lake City, Utah 84158-1289
Phone: (801) 585 1631
Fax: (801) 581-8686
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The NEMSIS Technical Assistance Center exists to standardize data
collection and develop a national registry to facilitate evaluation
of emergency medical services.
On Aug 20, 2008, at 1:32 PM, M.Daquin wrote:
The trouble is of course when the whole web is the database, it's
hard to
suggest those relationships (connections) for a set of entities.
How might
one solve that problem? I suppose something like Swoogle can
help. Is that
what Tabulator uses to know what data is on the SW?
David
