Data Science for Health and Biomedical Sciences
Content
Gen AI Guidance
Week 7: Improving Healthcare Processes & Integrating Health Data
TBC: Optional: NHS R - modelling hospital flow
Content
Readings, videos, and exercises
Week 1: Introduction
Overview
Topic 1: Introduction to Health Data Science
Topic 2: The Role of Ethics in Health and Social Care
Topic 3: Getting started with R
Topic 4: Types of Health Data
Topic 5: Guide to R Markdown
Topic 6: Troubleshooting and Error Messages
Further Optional Resources
Week 1 Tutorial materials
Week 2: Data Tidying and Wrangling
Overview
Topic 1: The Tidyverse
Topic 2: Importing Data
Topic 3: Exploring Data
Topic 4: Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care Data
Topic 5: Files and Folders
Week 2 Tutorial materials
Week 3: Data Visualisation and Storytelling
Overview
Topic 1: Data Visualisation
Topic 2: Data visualisation aims
Topic 3: Data Storytelling
Topic 4: Plotting data with ggplot2
Topic 5: Going Further with R Markdown
Topic 6: More Wrangling and Plotting
Topic 7: Introduction to GitHub
Week 3 Tutorial materials
Week 4: Analysing and Presenting Data in R
Overview
Topic 1: Wrangling factors and joins
Topic 2: Fine-tuning plots
Topic 3: Roundup and recap
Optional: Data Engagements & Data Controversies
Week 5: Making Maps and Tables in R
Overview
Topic 1: Introduction to Geospatial Data in R with sf and Tidyverse
Topic 2: Creating more exciting tables
Optional: Writing Functions in R
Week 6: Machine Learning & Analysing Clinical Text
Overview
Topic 1: Machine Learning
Topic 2: Analysing Clinical Text
Topic 3: Embedding Ethics into Data Sharing
Week 7: Improving Healthcare Processes & Integrating Health Data
Overview
Topic 1: Computational Methods for Improving Healthcare Processes
Topic 2: Integrating Health Data
Topic 3: Improving Healthcare Processes
TBC: Optional: NHS R - modelling hospital flow
Week 8: Data and Identity
Overview
Data and Identity - readings
Week 9: Data Ownership
Overview
Reading: COVID and cause of death
Week 10: Working with Genomic Data
Overview
Topic 1: Genomic data: What is it and how to analyse it
Topic 2: Genotyping, sequencing, and profiling
Topic 3: Genome-wide association studies
Topic 4:GWAS Resources
Week 7: Improving Healthcare Processes & Integrating Health Data
TBC: Optional: NHS R - modelling hospital flow
TBC: Optional: NHS R - modelling hospital flow