Case Study: DIFFERENCE Foundation visualizes metabolic health data with Grafana

How Grafana Is Helping the DIFFERENCE Foundation Visualize Medical Data in Their Fight Against a Global Pandemic

DIFFERENCE Foundation, a Netherlands-based non-profit focused on quantitative research into metabolic dysfunction, needed a better way to securely visualize and interpret blood data from its Meterbolic mobile lab. The team was using tools like d3js, Plotly, and Julia plots, but wanted a solution that would let users log into their own data, build dashboards and panels, and better understand complex health measurements.

Grafana provided the foundation with an out-of-the-box visualization platform for secure logins, user-specific dashboards, annotations, alerts, and custom panels. DIFFERENCE Foundation now uses Grafana to display meal-response curves, hormone and lipid data, wearable data, and annotated calculations, helping clinicians and subscribers understand their results more easily; the company also reports strong support from Grafana’s core team and community, including quick fixes and prioritized enhancements for its health-data use case.

DIFFERENCE Foundation

Eric Smith

Co-founder