Data acquisition & exploration

COBA facilitates data acquisition and definition of data structures, in partnership with other teams across Informatics and DFCI. The Enterprise Data Warehouse team and COBA have made joint efforts to link data from Peoplesoft, EPIC, Info-ed, OnCore, and more into integrated and easily queried views for DFCI users.

COBA routinely inventories the available data to understand which metrics are available in EPIC, DataSteward, EPSi, PeopleSoft, etc., and determine metrics that can be calculated by manipulating existing fields.