# Insiders Call Summary: Best practices for data analysis

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-best-practices-for-data-analysis/47883>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** form-design, odk-central, odk-collect\
**Created:** [July 4, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-best-practices-for-data-analysis/47883 "2024-07-04T11:00:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aly\_Blenkin](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/aly_blenkin/32/19303_2.png) [@Aly\_Blenkin](https://forum.getodk.org/u/Aly_Blenkin)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-best-practices-for-data-analysis/47883/1 "2024-07-04T11:00:16Z")

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[![](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/9/c/9c1a114499680272e38fdf6c761677da64ab5aa2.jpeg "ODK Insiders Call: Best practices for data analysis") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srk7IlTCx2E)

Thanks to everyone who joined the 5th Insiders call 🌶🥹🥳

**Highlights**

- ⚡ Lightning talk: @rfvieira on digitizing açai collection assessment and traceability
- 💬 Group discussion: Best practices for data analysis
- 🚀 Roadmap: Sneak peeks at coming features
- 🍿 Live demo: Improved offline map layers in Collect

**Lightning talk takeaways**

- Well-designed graphs can be more effective than a user-configurable dashboard
- Extend the capabilities of ODK with Python libraries like pyODK, pandas, and seaborn
- Design the end-to-end process and continuously improve it with feedback

@rfvieira also incorporated learnings from @rudo's talk at an [earlier Insiders call](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGX8hQrhDiw&t=2s) and is exploring satellite image anomaly detection for field verification and assessment.

**Resources**

- [Slide deck](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JYHT1k49Z_dfx0irFWUMhUcfUTsr1-GeJFV5HtbgDm8/edit?usp=sharing)
- [ODK roadmap](https://getodk.org/roadmap)
- New tutorial: [Mapping households with Power BI](https://docs.getodk.org/tutorial-mapping-households/)

**Want to join the upcoming [@Insiders](https://forum.getodk.org/groups/insiders) call on Sept 11th?**  
Learn how to [become an Insider](https://forum.getodk.org/t/how-to-become-an-odk-insider/45134) so you can participate in the monthly calls.

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**Author:** ![chun\_hing\_yap](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/chun_hing_yap/32/13598_2.png) [@chun\_hing\_yap](https://forum.getodk.org/u/chun_hing_yap)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-best-practices-for-data-analysis/47883/2 "2024-07-06T01:08:05Z")

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![Screenshot_2024-07-06-09-05-11-678_com.google.android.apps.docs.editors.slides](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/uploads/default/original/3X/b/1/b128c03c5b57bd809df9a194e10b7f459dae58fd.jpeg)

Is this created via geotrace? Never know the segment of geotrace can be colored differently.

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**Author:** ![ahblake](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/ahblake/32/22392_2.png) [@ahblake](https://forum.getodk.org/u/ahblake)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2024, 2:50am UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/insiders-call-summary-best-practices-for-data-analysis/47883/3 "2024-07-06T02:50:49Z")

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> [@chun\_hing\_yap](#):
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> Never know the segment of geotrace

It's in the current beta

> [@ODK Collect v2024.2 Beta: prompt to recover, select from map line and shape styling, offline Entities prototype](https://forum.getodk.org/t/odk-collect-v2024-2-beta-prompt-to-recover-select-from-map-line-and-shape-styling-offline-entities-prototype/47002/1):
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> 💅 Styling of lines and shapes in [select from map](https://docs.getodk.org/form-question-types/#select-from-map). In addition to the special properties documented [here](https://docs.getodk.org/form-question-types/#choice-properties), you can now set `stroke` and `fill` to colors and `stroke-width` to an integer.