reporting in kobo (and odk ecosystem in general)

[Donald Lobo]

hey folks:

just wanted to raise the issue about reporting in general. As we all know data analysis and reporting is super critical for all NGO's. We are working with three or four orgs in india, all using various forms of the ODK stack (we've deployed kobo at Shelter, the others are using commcare) and all of them are struggling with reporting. Many of them are doing it manually with little / no automation.

commcare recently released a simple report builder: http://www.dimagi.com/blog/report-builder/ While not a full-fledged report builder like jasper reports, pentaho or birt, its at least one solid step in the right direction.

wondering what folks think about:

a. adding something like that to the kobotoolkit

b. deploying a framework so adding new "custom" reports is relatively easy (there might be some python packages that we can build on)

OR

a. seeing if integrating with an exisiting open source report builder is relatively easy and a better path. The main drawback is these UI's are quite complex. However administrators can build fairly powerful reports without any developer intervention

thoughts? comments? if this has been discussed in the past, links to the discussion would be great

once again, thanx for a wonderful project and solid support.

lobo

[Tino Kreutzer]

Hi Lobo,

This is a great question, I hope we can get others to chime in with their views. From our side just two points: 

1) We've expanded the reporting feature for quick data analysis, the first version is now available in the Analyse Data section. We're adding more features to this in the coming weeks and months. This doesn't equal a fully customized report, but we're moving in that direction. Input and ideas on how this should work are always welcome!

2) Accessing the raw collected data is possible through the API which provides a CSV link that can be integrated in other tools, such as Tableau. There's also a small script to import this raw data into a Google Spreadsheet. It would be great to have more users share their own scripts that allowed them to pull data and present it in custom ways. 

All the best,

Tino

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