BIOSTAT 202 Opportunities and Challenges of Complex Biomedical Data: Introduction to the Science of "Big Data"
Section outline
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Lecture: Introduction to the course
What is data science/big data? What makes it different from non-big data? What big data can and cannot do. Phases of data science: getting data, merging and cleaning data, storing and accessing data, visualizing or telling stories with data, drawing conclusions from dataFaculty: Charles McCulloch
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Computer Lab: Introduction to software
Faculty: Elaine Allen
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Getting data from large databases
Public use data (NHANES, NIS, CMS, national death index, etc, large cohort studies). Electronic health records. Social media.Faculty: Charles McCulloch
Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Lecture: Managing data and data storage
Data harmonization and curation. Issues with poor quality data.Faculty: Elaine Allen
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Computer Lab 2
Faculty: Charles McCulloch
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Data visualization/story-telling
Graphical and tabular methods for displaying data to uncover/understand associations.Faculty: Elaine Allen
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Digital Health
Electronic data sensors. Issues with data storage and processing.Faculty: Mark Pletcher
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Computer Lab 3
Faculty: Elaine Allen
Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Lecture: Prediction algorithms 1
Statistical regression models. Machine learning. Supervised learning, part 1Faculty: John Kornak
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Predication algorithms 2
Statistical regression models. Machine learning. Supervised learning, part 2Faculty: John Kornak
Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Computer Lab 4
Faculty: John Kornak
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Clustering algorithms
K means clustering. Unsupervised learningFaculty: John Kornak
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Causal inference from big data
Issues of bias and how to minimize. Selection bias. Methods to minimize bias in observational studies.Faculty: Charles McCulloch
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Computer Lab 5
Faculty: John Kornak
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Large pragmatic trials
Conducting RCTs using big data methods.Faculty: Mark Pletcher
Location: Mission Hall 1400 -
Lecture: Case study in big data
RotatingFaculty: John Kornak and Howie Rosen
Location: Mission Hall 1400
