Workshop on Respondent-driven Sampling Analyst Software III.pptx

Introduce a new comprehensive, user friendly and open-source software package for the analysis of RDS Data.

1. Structure of RDS Analyst ...........................................---■ o--------------------------------------------- A BRIEF TOUR

2. Why ....................................................................................................O............................................. : ................................................... • Lack of a tool for field researchers that is: o Easy to use. o Scriptable. o Supports the latest methods and diagnostics. • Bridging the gap between statistical researchers and public health officials.

3. RDSAT But isn't their already a program? ......-......-......-......-......-......-......-.....-O--.....-.....-.....-.....-.....-.....-...... Doesn't implement the latest estimation methods (e.g. Gile's SS estimator). Doesn't implement the latest diagnostic plots (e.g. Convergence and bottleneck plots). Inflexible data import. • Less than ideal UI design. Doesn't speak the same language as statisticians (R). • No source code available.

4. Ali. Frequencies Frequencies ( X ) 1 2 Value blue red View and edit data 9/13/2013 Console : ile Edit Workspace Data Sample Population Plots Packages & Data Window Help Menu items to import, analyze and manipulate data Console View Bement View ew Variable View RDS Remove > Loading required package: DeducerRichOutput > data(faux) > frequencies(faux[c("X","Y”)] , r.digits = 1) Analysis output network, size Case Summary ( X ) Missing

5. GUI Design Principles o SIMPLE DESIGN SHOULD HIDE COMPLEXITY

6. GUI Design Principles .......................................----- o------------------------------------------- BEAUTIFUL GRAPHICS

7. GUI Design Principles ...................................................-------------o----------------------------------------------------- DATA = * DATA ANALYSIS

8. GUI Design Principles ...............................-------------o-------------------------------------- INFORMATIVE HELP

9. GUI Design Principles o EMBEDDED WITHIN A LARGER DATA ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK