Technical Tips and Training

On This Page

• SAS Studio
• NSSP-ESSENCE

• RStudio

Welcome to the NSSP Technical Tips page, where you’ll find helpful tips, tricks, and training for working with BioSense Platform tools such as ESSENCE, Access & Management Center, and RStudio Professional.

SAS Studio

• How to Do SQL Queries Using SAS Studio
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NSSP–ESSENCE

• Free-text Coding Article Series—how to write ESSENCE free-text queries:
  • Part 1. Wildcards
  • Part 2. Underscores_and Brackets [ ]
  • Part 3. Inclusionary Terms
  • Part 4. Exclusion Terms and Parentheses
  • Part 5. A “Starter” Fall-related Injury Query and Examples of Complex Queries
  • Part 6. Wrapping Things Up

• ESSENCE Online Trainingexternal icon
  Six self-paced modules instruct and assess your understanding of concepts being presented. Topics include overviews of ESSENCE, syndromic surveillance, basic and advanced ESSENCE system components, ESSENCE Chief Complaint Processor, and ESSENCE alerting algorithms. Learn how to perform routine tasks such as create queries and analyze data using multiple visualization types.
• ESSENCE Training on Using Queriesexternal icon, webinar led by Wayne Loschen of Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
• NSSP ESSENCE Training at PHI Conference pdf icon[PDF]

RStudio

• How to Use the ESSENCE APIs With the Rnssp Packageexternal icon
  This document explains how to load Rnssp and use it to access ESSENCE APIs. The document provides the code for using seven APIs (time series data table, time series png image, table builder results, data details [line level], summary stats, alert list detection table, and time series data table with stratified historical alerts/ESSENCE2).
• How to Do Queries in RStudio Pro
• Sharing a Project in RStudio (on the new server)