Quick start

Introduction

At the end of this tutorial, you will have a dashboard that allows you to visualize data from 100 patients.

You must have previously installed and launched LinkR.

Import Data

We will import data from the content catalog.

From the home page or from the menu at the top of the page, go to the “Content Catalog” page.

Find Saint-Malo on the map and select InterHop.

You will see on the right side of the screen the home page of InterHop’s shared content: we can see that plugins and datasets are offered, among other things.

To access the details of this shared content, click on the “View Content” button at the bottom of the page.

We want to download the data from the “MIMIC-IV demo set” dataset.

So we will click on the “Datasets” tab, at the top right of the screen, then click on the widget that corresponds to our dataset.

All that’s left is to click on “Install”, and that’s it, the dataset (at least its code) is installed!

No, no data is downloaded when installing a dataset.

Health data, which is sensitive data, must be handled within a very specific regulatory framework.

Here, we have downloaded the code that allows access to the data, and not the data itself.

It happens that in our case, this is anonymized data, and therefore not subject to GDPR. This is why this code can, without any authentication, download the data of the 100 patients from the MIMIC-IV test database.

You can read this article for more information about the MIMIC database.

Let’s now see how to import a project.

Import a Project

We will proceed in the same way to import a project.

Click on the “Projects” tab at the top right of the screen, click on the “LinkR Demo” project, then install the project.

Launch the Project

In order to launch our project, we must associate the project and the dataset.

To do this, go to the “Projects” page, from the first icon from the left at the top of the screen or from the home page (which is accessed by clicking on the LinkR icon at the top left of the screen).

Then click on the project to launch it.

Click on the “Data” tab at the top right of the screen.

Select the dataset we previously installed: “MIMIC-IV demo set”.

Click on the “Play” icon to load the data.

The dataset code, being launched for the first time, downloads the CSV files from the database, this may take a few minutes. Loading will be faster the following times, since the files will be stored locally, they will not need to be downloaded again.

You can now access the data:

• Either from the project’s “Summary” page, with the “Individual Data” or “Aggregated Data” icons
• Or from the icon at the top of the screen

You should see this on the aggregated data screen.

Conclusion

We have seen in this tutorial how to import data and import a project from the content catalog.

To import your data, follow this tutorial.

To create a project from scratch, follow this tutorial.