Free, as in Speech (Cool Tools)

We're halfway through day 2 of the 2015 Datathon Challenge and want to provide some information on the tools and resources we used throughout the challenge.

The cool thing about VA MedPulse is that it is completely free for commercial use. VA MedPulse uses open source technology for application programming interfaces (API) and free community licenses. A few of the useful tools include:

• Font Awesome - Fonts
• Blogspot - Blogging
• Rally Dev - Project Management | Community Version
• GitHub - Source E-Control
• Jvectormap - Mapping Tool
• Microsoft Visual Studio Community Edition - Application Development

Application Datasets - Sources

In this post the DMV Data Drivers will be tracking the sources and datasets used to create the VA MedPulse application.

Datathon rules indicate that teams must utilize at least two data from Data.Virginia.gov in two different domains. Datasets that were used from this domain include:

• Data.Virginia.gov, Commonwealth Data Point, Demographic Data, State Population, Cities and Counties
• http://datapoint.apa.virginia.gov/demographic/demographics_data.cfm

• Data.Virginia.gov, Commonwealth Data Point, Demographic Data, State Population, Towns
• http://datapoint.apa.virginia.gov/demographic/demographics_data.cfm

• Data.Virginia.gov, Health and Human Services, Department of Emergency Medical Assistance Services, Virginia Medicaid Provider Directory
• http://data.virginia.gov/hhr/

• Data.Virginia.gov, Health and Human Services, Virginia Department of Health Professionals, Doctor Profile Data
• http://data.virginia.gov/hhr/

Data sources outside of Data.Virginia.gov include:

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Hypertension, Ages 20+
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=75

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Cholesterol Ages 20+
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=74

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Obesity Ages 2-19
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=543

• Center for Decease Control, Interactive Health Data, Vaccinations for Influenza and Pneumonia, Ages 1+
• http://205.207.175.93/HDI/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=677

dmvdatadrivers.blogspot feeds - API

Note:These full-site feeds are real-time enabled; developers can subscribe to low-latency updates by using the PubSubHubbub protocol.

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• RSS 2.0: http://dmvdatadrivers.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Comments-only feed:

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Label-specific site feed:

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Individual post comment feed:

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