This course distills for you expert knowledge and skills mastered by professionals in Health Big Data Science and Bioinformatics. You will learn exciting facts about the human body biology and chemistry, genetics, and medicine that will be intertwined with the science of Big Data and skills to harness the avalanche of data openly available at your fingertips and which we are just starting to make sense of. We’ll investigate the different steps required to master Big Data analytics on real datasets, including Next Generation Sequencing data, in a healthcare and biological context, from preparing data for analysis to completing the analysis, interpreting the results, visualizing them, and sharing the results.

Big Data, Genes, and Medicine

Big Data, Genes, and Medicine

Instructor: Isabelle Bichindaritz
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4 weeks at 10 hours a week
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- Informatics
- Predictive Analytics
- Biomedical Technology
- Model Evaluation
- Data Preprocessing
- Bioinformatics
- Molecular Biology
- Big Data
- Health Informatics
- Feature Engineering
- Statistical Programming
- Medical Science and Research
- Data Transformation
- Statistical Analysis
- Data Cleansing
- Predictive Modeling
- Advanced Analytics
- Analytics
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MP
Reviewed on May 23, 2020
A very informative course . I learn so many things from this course and this course has very good coverage in data and its analysis. thank you so much for providing this course
GG
Reviewed on Aug 31, 2020
A very interesting basis for a start in big data with some particularly enjoyable practical exercises.
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Reviewed on Feb 16, 2023
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