University of Colorado System
Clinical Data Science Specialization
University of Colorado System

Clinical Data Science Specialization

Launch your career in Clinical Data Science. A six-course introduction to using clinical data to improve the care of tomorrow's patients.

Laura K. Wiley, PhD
Michael G. Kahn, MD, PhD

Instructors: Laura K. Wiley, PhD

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Specialization - 6 course series

Introduction to Clinical Data Science

Course 18 hours4.5 (402 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Describe how each type of clinical data are generated, specifically outlining who creates the data, when and why the data are generated.

  • Write SQL code to combine two or more tables using database joins.

  • Write R code to manipulate and tidy data including: selecting columns, filtering rows, and joining data sets.

  • Write markdown formatted text and combine with R code in RMarkdown documents.

Clinical Data Models and Data Quality Assessments

Course 217 hours4.2 (63 ratings)

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Identifying Patient Populations

Course 313 hours4.5 (39 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Create a computational phenotyping algorithm

  • Assess algorithm performance in the context of analytic goal.

  • Create combinations of at least three data types using boolean logic

  • Explain the impact of individual data type performance on computational phenotyping.

Clinical Natural Language Processing

Course 412 hours3.6 (22 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Recognize and distinguish the difference in complexity and sophistication of text mining, text processing, and natural language processing.

  • Write basic regular expressions to identify common clinical text.

  • Assess and select note sections that can be used to answer analytic questions.

  • Write R code to search text windows for other keywords and phrases to answer analytic questions.

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Advanced Clinical Data Science

Course 64 hours4.8 (23 ratings)

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Laura K. Wiley, PhD
University of Colorado System
6 Courses29,049 learners
Michael G. Kahn, MD, PhD
University of Colorado System
2 Courses9,257 learners

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