What we can do for you
We can join a project at any stage, from the point of a blank sheet of paper to when there are multiple competing challenges all intersecting at once.
All our work is openly licenced and released to you in accessible formats.
Infrastructure development
We develop new data management or analytical software systems and dashboards, or adapt existing ones, and deploy them on your own servers, or to hosted infrastructure on a range of existing services.
We have experience deploying CKAN and DKAN, as well as building entirely new systems, like our Whyqd.com data wrangingly and crosswalks platform.
Knowledge & capacity-building
We deliver capacity-building and knowledge transfer for organisations on both the administrative and technical aspects of working with, releasing and managing research data, as well as on developing open research infrastructure and custom applications.
We use any of our existing training courses on data management or data science, or develop new material for you. We also have experience at delivering these courses in multiple languages.
Technical training in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in 2015
Research & consulting
We provide consulting on interoperable research data systems and supporting organisations with developing and implementing data interoperability and capacity-building strategies, as well as facilitating engagement with internal and external stakeholders.
Where we work collaboratively in-country or in-organisation, we support our project partners to gain skills and capacity to maintain what we produce, or deliver and deploy similar services.
We go where our knowledge is needed
Whythawk has, either independently or in consortia, delivered many of the world’s leading open data portals, from data.gov in the US, to Mexico’s datos.gob.mx, as well as working with intergovernmental organisations, like the World Bank, in Nigeria and Tanzania, and UKAID in Pakistan.
Our research services offered insight into data management for the Public Health Research Data Forum, an assessment of open data platforms for the World Bank, and analysis on data interoperability for the future of air mobility with the Open Data Institute. We have also collaborated with Oxford University’s Global Health Network to improve their analytical systems and dashboards for managing staff career development in clinical trials.
We also proactively develop solutions to common data problems. Whyqd.com takes on the challenge of spreadsheet data interoperability, providing an intuitive method for schema-to-schema data transforms for research data reuse, and for transforming poorly-structured data to conform to a standardised metadata schema.
Please contact us if we can support you.