DataSHIELD - New directions and dimensions

Wilson, RC ORCID: 0000-0003-2294-593X, Butters, OW ORCID: 0000-0003-0354-8461, Avraam, D, Baker, J, Tedds, JA, Turner, A, Murtagh, M and Burton, PR (2017) DataSHIELD - New directions and dimensions Data Science Journal, 16. 21-. ISSN 1683-1470, 1683-1470

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Abstract

In disciplines such as biomedicine and social sciences, sharing and combining sensitive individual-level data is often prohibited by ethical-legal or governance constraints and other barriers such as the control of intellectual property or the huge sample sizes. DataSHIELD (Data Aggregation Through Anonymous Summary-statistics from Harmonised Individual-levEL Databases) is a distributed approach that allows the analysis of sensitive individual-level data from one study, and the co-analysis of such data from several studies simultaneously without physically pooling them or disclosing any data. Following initial proof of principle, a stable DataSHIELD platform has now been implemented in a number of epidemiological consortia. This paper reports three new applications of ÐataSHIELD including application to post-publication sensitive data analysis, text data analysis and privacy protected data visualisation. Expansion of DataSHIELD analytic functionality and application to additional data types demonstrate the broad applications of the software beyond biomedical sciences.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	4605 Data Management and Data Science, 46 Information and Computing Sciences, 1.5 Resources and infrastructure (underpinning), Generic health relevance
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2020 10:38
Last Modified:	23 May 2026 03:37
DOI:	10.5334/dsj-2017-021
Open Access URL:	http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2017-021
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3092658
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