Self-hostable, open-source engine for reproducible data harmonization, dataset building & exploration
The Data Hub is a flexible, self-hostable, open-source engine designed for reproducible data harmonization, dataset creation, and exploratory visualization, specifically tailored to collaborative Global Health research and action. It seamlessly integrates diverse data across temporal and spatial dimensions using source code, laying a solid data foundation for complex analyses. By fostering Data Collaboration across various disciplines, our software framework empowers teams to effectively share, manage, and bring together heterogeneous data, ensuring the consistency and reproducibility vital for building collaborative intelligence.
Explore our Data Hub Demo focused on Ghana, showcasing a variety of open health and contextual data, and discover its development story shared at Django Day Copenhagen 2024. We welcome your input on data needs and preparation through our User Survey – thank you for contributing!
Data Snack, based at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) in Hamburg, Germany, is an initiative dedicated to empowering collaborative research, education, and action through leveraging digital resources and software tools. At the core of our work is the Data Hub, supported by various activities aimed at enhancing data collaboration in the field of Global Health.
Operating at the intersection of health and computer sciences, we collaborate with stakeholders in research, data management, data analysis, applied epidemiology, and public health.
Data Snack is a collaborative research and development initiative at the nexus of health and computer sciences. The core team includes Juliane Boenecke, a health scientist active in infectious disease and Global Health research, and Jonathan Ströbele, a computer scientist with expertise in data harmonization, architecture and user-centered software development.
Juliane Bönecke (she/her) | BSc, MSc | is a health scientist at BNITM (Dep. Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 2020) driven by a passion for interdisciplinary and multimethod research in infectious disease epidemiology, epidemic preparedness and response. Following her academic foundation with a BSc (Charité - University Medicine Berlin) and MSc (Hamburg University of Applied Sciences) in Health Sciences, she has built her expertise through diverse projects since 2017, spanning public health intelligence, data collaboration, and climate change and health. Having collaborated across various disciplines in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Pacific Islands, Juliane brings a globally informed perspective.
Through Data Snack, she is ambitious about developing innovative digital resources to enhance interdisciplinary collaboration and training, including the use of gamification, all while promoting an Open Science culture.
Jonathan Ströbele | BSc, MSc | holds a MSc in Computer Science from the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, where he also completed his BSc in Technical Computer Science. Before his studies he worked several years in the field of web development where he designed and built complex web applications for clients from various domains. This laid the foundation for a profound passion for open source, user-centered design, and participatory software development. During his Masters he worked as a research associate in different international multi-domain projects, where he focused on the development of an enhanced Geo-Information-System (GIS) framework for processing heterogeneous data tailored to the work of epidemiological research and field work - the Data Hub.
Since 2023 Jonathan works as a computer scientist at the BNITM (Dep. Infectious Disease Epidemiology, 2023), where he focuses on advancing Data Snack through innovative software solutions in interdisciplinary, collaborative research.
Hosting institution
Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Germany
Department Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Interdisciplinary Academy of Competence & Education for Global Health (iACE Global Health)
Funding
Innovate! Academy, Joachim Herz Foundation (JHS), Germany (2023-2026)
German Federal Ministry of Research Technology and Space, Germany (BMFTR)
