BIOSTAT 202: Opportunities and Challenges of Complex Biomedical Data: Introduction to the Science of "Big Data" (Summer 2018)
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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:Â Mission Hall 1400-
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Computer Lab: Introduction to software
Faculty: Charles McCulloch
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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: Â Mission Hall 1400
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Lecture: Managing data and data storage
Data harmonization and curation. Issues with poor quality data.ÂFaculty: Elaine Allen
Location: Â Mission Hall 1400-
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Computer Lab 2
Faculty: Elaine Allen
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Lecture: Machine Learning 1
Introduction. Supervised learning. Statistical regression models for prediction (continuous outcomes)Faculty: Dave Glidden
Location: Mission Hall 1400-
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Lecture: Machine Learning 2
Regression continued. Classification methods. Training/validation/testFaculty: Dave Glidden
Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Computer Lab 3
Faculty: Dave Glidden
Location: Mission Hall 1400
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Lecture: Machine Learning 3
Classification methods continued. Unsupervised learning: K means clustering.Faculty: Dave Glidden
Location: Mission Hall 1400-
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Lecture: Machine Learning 4
More unsupervised learning methodsFaculty: Dave Glidden
Location: Mission Hall 1400-
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Computer Lab 4
Faculty: Dave Glidden
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Lecture: Digital Health
Electronic data sensors. Issues with data storage and processing.Faculty: Mark Pletcher
Location:Â Mission Hall 1400-
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Lecture: Data visualization/story-telling
Graphical and tabular methods for displaying data to uncover/understand associations.Faculty:Â Elaine Allen
Location:Â Mission Hall 1400-
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Computer Lab 5
Faculty: Elaine Allen
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Lecture: Case study in big data
RotatingFaculty: Marina Sirota
Location: Mission Hall 1400-
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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-
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