Big Data to Knowledge Skills Course

Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology in conjunction with the Library

Instructors: Shannon McWeeney, PhD | Melissa Haendel, PhD | David Dorr, MD, MS | Jackie Wirz, PhD | Mathew Brush, PhD | Shahim Essaid, MD | Nicole Weiskopf, PhD | Nicole Vasilevsky, PhD | Ted Laderas, PhD

Schedule for the Week of July 6th through July 10th, 2015

Monday July 6th

  • 9:00 AM
    Overview -intro to big data
  • 10:00 AM
    Move from Individual to Population
  • 11:00 AM
    Importance of Question (Clear Question) / Setting Scope
  • 1:00 PM
    Problems amenable to analytics (refinement)
  • 2:00 PM
    Clinical perspective; expanding definition of team - engagement with clinicians
  • 3:00 PM
    Exercises: Think through problem, refining question, identifying collaborators, stakeholders

Tuesday July 7th

  • 9:00 AM
    Metadata
  • 10:00 AM
    Searching and Evaluating the Literature
  • 11:00 AM
    Finding the right data
  • 1:00 PM
    Data Management
  • 2:00 PM
    Data and Ethics
  • 3:00 PM
    Managing your scholarly footprint
  • 4:00 PM
    Exercises: Continue to work on your problem, finding literature and data

Wednesday July 8th

  • 9:00 AM
    Data Dictionary
  • 10:00 AM
    Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
  • 11:00 AM
    As you touch data – what can go wrong, how to prevent this
  • 1:00 PM
    Identifiers Everywhere - data across heterogeneous sources
  • 2:00 PM
    Semantics, data linking, and ontologies
  • 3:00 PM
    Visualization (presenting results, making data "accessible")
  • 4:00 PM
    Exercise: visualization tools and aggregating data

Thursday July 9th

  • 9:00 AM
    Looking at the data - Exercise (Hands-on)
  • 10:00 AM
    Classes of Methods
  • 11:00 AM
    When we do this wrong: methods don't match
  • 1:00 PM
    Reporting Findings and Limitations - Giving “Elevator Speech”
  • 3:00 PM
    Practice

Friday July 10th

  • 9:00 AM
    Student presentations