Introduction to Clinical Data Science Coursera

Overview

This Introduction to Clinical Data Science course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Colorado System will prepare you to complete all parts of the Clinical Data Science Specialization. In this course you will learn how clinical data are generated, the format of these data, and the ethical and legal restrictions on these data. 

Key facts

• You will also learn enough SQL and R programming skills to be able to complete the entire Specialization - even if you are a beginner programmer. 

• While you are taking this course you will have access to an actual clinical data set and a free, online computational environment for data science hosted by our Industry Partner Google Cloud. 

• At the end of this course you will be prepared to embark on your clinical data science education journey, learning how to take data created by the healthcare system and improve the health of tomorrow's patients.

What you will 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.

Skills you'll gain

• Data Analysis

• Data Management

• Data Analysis Software

• Databases

• Leadership and Management

• SQL