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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Advanced level
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4 weeks at 10 hours a week
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- Bioinformatics
- Analytics
- Biomedical Technology
- Data Mining
- Biostatistics
- Advanced Analytics
- Statistical Programming
- Data Presentation
- Informatics
- Data Cleansing
- Health Informatics
- Medical Science and Research
- Statistical Analysis
- Predictive Modeling
- Molecular Biology
- Statistical Methods
- Big Data
- Predictive Analytics
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MZ
Reviewed on Sep 8, 2021
the mahcine learning parts were good, though a bit more practical exercises could have improved it.but the Genetic parts were taught far too vague in my opinion,Thank all of you :)
HS
Reviewed on Aug 24, 2020
This course gives me a idea about my project.very informative course.thank you
SM
Reviewed on Jul 2, 2022
it was a good and useful course. it just needs an update because of some changes in the cbioportal.
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