Introduction to Data Science. 1 Credit Hour

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This elective course is designed to train participants to use programming languages such as R and SQL to extract, prepare, and analyze data. This course is designed to be self-contained: statistical methods and theory relevant to analyzing large datasets will be covered with the computer-related course content providing tangible applications and motivating examples. In addition, the course will include organizational skill training and best practices needed to run a successful collaboration between researchers conducting patient oriented clinical research and the researchers in the computational fields.