Datadot

The World Health Organization's new home of health data, helping everyone access, trust and act on data.

 

Screenshots showing the interface of datadot

Datadot (data.who.int) is an accessible, trusted and actionable source for the full breadth of the world's health data. This pioneering work is being developed as part of WHO's wider transformation agenda, through the World Health Data Hub programme of DDI; WHO's Division of Data Analytics and Delivery for Impact.

Harmonizing and consolidating WHO's wealth of health data assets and data sets in a central location will, for the first time, allow access to data from WHO, partners and publicly available sources in one seamless experience.

Accessible, engaging charts and information design makes data easy to understand. Through the application of a more agile approach to reusable visualization, we enable the creation of new charts, dashboards and portals at speed and scale, ensuring data can be released in a way that is timely, usable and understandable.

 

Features

Robust foundations

Our dynamic, common system creates a backbone for publishing channels, WHO observatories, data portals and additional outputs including data set exports and social media assets.

Screenshot of an indicator page for maternal mortality rates
Screenshot of a list of indicators and filters on a mobile device
 

Features

Data catalogue

Datadot consolidates our data and health data resources into a browsable library of indicators, data sets, products and tools.

 

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Harmonized metadata

A common metadata model that leverages the Data Description Schema provides diverse and adaptable entry points into all WHO data.

 
An example list of metadata including most recent update, data type, granularity and provenance.
Screenshot of Triple Billion dashboard landing page
 

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Delivering impact

Datadot tracks health indicators against global goals and targets, including the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and Triple Billion targets, helping the global community understand where we are and interventions that can positively affect progress.

 

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Joining the dots

Mapped to goals and targets, interventions and standards; indicators are made actionable by leveraging wider WHO digital content. Supplementing data with journeys to related content on WHO’s other websites will help users to immediately understand the implications and meaning behind changes in data and respond accordingly.

 
Cover images of WHO publications and a data story about the Triple Billion targets
Quote: Together we need to accelerate the implementation of transformation even as we continue to learn and add new ideas.
 

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Fostering community

We are leveraging data.who.int to build and nurture a community around health data; fostering ideation, facilitating innovation and increasing capacity across the field.

 

Objective

 
 

 

Health data is a public good and must be accessible for all. As such, the World Health Organization has the responsibility as the steward of the world’s health data to ensure that no country, no city, no community and no person is left behind.

We are working to provide the most accessible, harmonized, public health data platform in the world, addressing inequitable access to understandable, timely data.

Built to transform lives, Datadot is making health data findable, browsable and usable. Consolidating our data into a single seamless experience is bringing time-saving and added-value features to countries, partners, WHO staff and the public.

 

 
 

In action

 
 

WHO is planning a BETA release of Datadot in 2022 but, through its planning and development, it is already having a transformative impact on the operations and outputs of WHO and partner organizations.

Preparatory data harmonization, metadata models, API enhancement, reference data consolidation and data modelling, built on the foundational experience of the Global Health Observatory (GHO), has increased efficiency and collaboration.

Through our extensive research and consultative process we're also aligning with wider communities of practice and informing the decision-making and design-process of data products in WHO.

 

Next steps

 
 

Datadot (data.who.int) is due for release later in 2022, with agile and iterative product development where new features are added over time, providing the opportunity for feedback loops. Understanding how people use data.who.int allows us to improve it, make recommendations to users and understand which data is trending at any given moment.

 

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