Digital & Data Tools

Data Systems, Dashboards, and Websites (students indicated with *)

Iowa Treatment Admissions Dashboard: 2000-2021. (2024). Interactive dashboard that enables descriptive analysis of treatment admissions to federally funded substance use treatment programs in Iowa. Team: Dorius, S.F., Voss, M., and Dorius, C. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/sdorius/viz/TEDSIowaDashboard/TreatmentHome
Iowa Community Analytics & Profile Dashboard. (2023 – Present). Interactive dashboard that supports neighborhood-level analysis across key American Community Survey indicators. Team: Voss, M.J., Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, & Dorius, C. https://iowa-aod.github.io/Dashboard/
Iowa Alcohol Density Monitoring Program. (2022 – Present). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, Ankeny, IA. Team: Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Voss, M.J., & Dorius, C. https://iowa-aod.github.io/Dashboard/
Burlington Community Alcohol Density Monitoring Dashboard. (2022 – Present). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, Ankeny, IA. Team: Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Voss, M.J., & Dorius, C. https://iowa-aod.github.io/Dashboard/
Cedar Rapids Community Alcohol Density Monitoring Dashboard. (2022 – Present). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, Ankeny, IA. Team: Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Voss, M.J., & Dorius, C. https://iowa-aod.github.io/Dashboard/
Iowa City Community Alcohol Density Monitoring Dashboard. (2022 – Present). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, Ankeny, IA. Team: Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, & Voss, M.J., Dorius, C. https://iowa-aod.github.io/Dashboard/
Marshalltown Community Alcohol Density Monitoring Dashboard. (2022 – Present). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, Ankeny, IA. Team: Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, Voss, M.J., & Dorius, C. https://iowa-aod.github.io/Dashboard/
Recovery-Iowa Website. (2021-Present). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Dorius, C., Dorius, S.F., Voas, R., Nosrati M.*, Voss, M.*, True-Funk, A.*, Bahe, D.*, Kahris, L.*, Hulse, S.*, Zellmann, P.*, Potter, T.*, & Van Selous, K.* https://recovery-iowa.org
Iowa’s Health Information Platform. (2022). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M., & True-Funk, A.*. [Link Pending]
Iowa Alcohol Insights Platform. (2021 – Present). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, Ankeny, IA. Team: Dorius S.F., Van Selous, K.*, & Dorius, C. https://aripublicsciencecollaborative.github.io/Dashboard/
National Learning Community Network. (2020-present). Website, data tools, and underlying data to advance economic mobility via the Community Learning through Data Discovery process. Team: see website; https://datascienceforthepublicgood.com/economic-mobility/community-insights

Data Science & Design Thinking Prototyping Tools: (students indicated with *)

Iowa Peer Support Meeting Finder. (2021- present). We use APIs and bots to scrape over a dozen websites each morning and then ingest, clean, and display the near-real time data with this interactive tool. Data elements include the name, location, day or week, time of day, language spoken, accessibility accommodations, and other public facts about each group meeting. Team: Nosrati, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M.*, & Van Selous, K.* http://public-science.org/meetingfinder/index_desktop.php
Iowa Community Resource Locator. (2021- present). Pulling from dozens of data elements, we ingest and display community level resources related to childcare providers, parks, workforce development centers, places of worship, schools K-12, colleges, and libraries in every community in the state. Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M.*, Nosrati, M.*, & Van Selous, K.* http://public-science.org/communityresources/index_desktop.php
Iowa Health and Recovery Resource Locator. (2021- present). We identify and ingest data elements from dozens of sources to project recovery resources including the location of access centers, mental health centers, rural clinics, drug drop off locations, peer support providers, substance use and gambling providers, hospitals, recovery housing, Veteran’s Affairs health centers, and medication assisted treatment sites. Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Voss, M.*, Nosrati, M.*, & Van Selous, K.*. http://public-science.org/recoveryresources/index_desktop.php
Iowa Recovery Coach Locator. (2021- present). Provides the name location, website, and contact information for recovery coaches. Team: Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., Nosrati, M.* http://public-science.org/recoveryresources/index_desktop.php
Interactive Data Tool (R): Mapping the Social Determinants of Health. (2021). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, & Van Selous, K.* https://publicsciencecollaborative.shinyapps.io/sdoh/
Interactive Data Tool (R): Substance Use Risk Index to Support Vulnerable Populations in Iowa. (2021). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, & Van Selous, K.* https://publicsciencecollaborative.shinyapps.io/ia_substance_use_vulnerability/
Interactive Data Tool (R): Iowa’s Prescription Monitoring Program. (2021). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F. Dorius, C. & Van Selous, K.* https://publicsciencecollaborative.shinyapps.io/iowa_pmp/
Interactive Data Tool (R): Sexually Transmitted Infections in Iowa. (2021). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Potter, T.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C. & Van Selous, K.* https://publicsciencecollaborative.shinyapps.io/IDPH_STI_rates/
Interactive Data Tool (R): Opioids in Combination with Other Substances in Iowa. (2021). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Potter, T.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, & Van Selous, K.* https://publicsciencecollaborative.shinyapps.io/TEDS_Opioids_Combinations/
Interactive Data Tool (R): Demographic Profiles of People Seeking Treatment in Iowa. (2021). Interactive website prepared for the Iowa Department of Public Health Substance Abuse Bureau, Des Moines, IA. Team: Potter, T.*, Voss, M.*, Dorius, S.F., Dorius, C., True-Funk, A.*, & Van Selous, K.* https://publicsciencecollaborative.shinyapps.io/TEDS_Dashboard/
Developing a Community Capitals Data Infrastructure to Support Community Economic Mobility. (2020). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Office of the Vice President for Extension and Outreach, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Team: Rajabalizadeh, A.*, Sridhar, K.*, Bustin, J.*, Voss, M.*, Durbahn, G.*, Von Behren, J.*, Magal, V.*, & Thompson, K.*, Dorius, C., & Abraham, W.
Developing a Community Capitals Data Infrastructure to Support Community Economic Mobility. (2020). Interactive dashboard prepared for the Office of the Vice President for Extension and Outreach, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Team: Rajabalizadeh, A.*, Sridhar, K.*, Bustin, J.*, Voss, M.*, Durbahn, G.*, Von Behren, J.*, Magal, V.*, & Thompson, K.*, Dorius, C., & Abraham, W. https://dspg-isu.shinyapps.io/community-capitals/
Enlarging the ISU Extension Community Helpline Services. (2020). An interactive dashboard prepared for the Office of the Vice President for Extension and Outreach, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. Team: Thomas, D.*, Zhu, X.*, Chong, K.*, Maloney, A.*, Sukul, A., Dorius, S.F., & Dorius, C.
Identifying Communities in Greatest Need of Alcohol Prevention Efforts. (2020). An interactive dashboard prepared for the Bureau of Substance Abuse, Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA. Team: Thomas, D.*, Zhu, X.*, Chong, K.*, Thompson, K.*, Shah, R.*, Jahic, I.*, Seeger, C., Dorius, S.F., & Dorius, C.
Mapping Iowa’s Substance Use Care Infrastructure. (2020). An interactive dashboard prepared for the Bureau of Substance Abuse, Iowa Department of Public Health, Des Moines, IA. Team: Sridhar, K.*, Rajabalizadeh, A.*, Bustin, J.*, Voss, M. J.*, Von Behren, J.*, Maloney, A.*, Durbahn, G.*, Magal, V.*, Van Selous, K.*, Dorius, S.F., Hofmann, H. & Dorius, C.

Data Collection Tools

Google Autocomplete Data Extraction Tool. (2016). A user-friendly script to enable structured data extraction. Team: Dorius, S.F. and A. Yedla*. https://github.com/sdorius/GoogleAutoComplete
Wikipedia Edits, Views & Top 1000. (2016). A user-friendly script to enable structured data extraction. Team: Dorius, S.F. and A. Yedla*. https://github.com/sdorius/Wikipedia
Social Mention Extract. (2016). Team: Dorius, S.F. and A. Yedla*. A user-friendly script to enable structured data extraction. https://github.com/sdorius/SocialMentions
Google Corpus Extract. (2014). Team: Dorius, S.F. and J. Willers*. A user-friendly web-based tool enable structured data extraction. http://www.shawndorius.com/ngrams

Datasets and Social Indicators

Dorius, C. and S.F. Dorius. (2020). Community Economic Mobility Indicators Website and Dashboards. https://dspgtools.shinyapps.io/EM-Data-Infrastructure/
Dorius, S.F. and C. Lawrence-Dill. (2018). GMO News Sources. (219 downloads) https://osf.io/fhs8a/
Dorius, S.F. (2017). Country Socioeconomic Status, 1880-2010 Dataset. (889 downloads) https://www.kaggle.com/sdorius/countryses
Dorius, S.F. and A. Yedla*. (2017). Quantifying the Value of Citizenship, 2016. (192 downloads) https://www.kaggle.com/sdorius/visafree2016
Dorius, S.F. and X. Jin*. (2016). Voice of the People Integrated Dataset. (105 downloads) https://www.kaggle.com/sdorius/votpharm
Dorius, S.F. and X. Jin*. (2016). Global Social Survey Data Infrastructure Dataset. (386 downloads) https://www.kaggle.com/sdorius/gssi2017
Dorius, S.F. (2016). Population Socioeconomic Status, 1880-2010 Dataset. (1524 downloads) https://www.kaggle.com/sdorius/globses