Overview
This Natural Language Processing (NLP) 1 in R for Health and Social Care course offered by The University of Edinburgh highlights NLP’s growing role in health and social care, where vast text data, from electronic health records to medical literature and social media, offers rich insights.
Learn technical skills with cutting-edge NLP tools and develop a critical understanding of the ethical and social implications of handling text data.
Spread across six chapters, the course combines theory and practice to prepare you for the rapidly evolving field of NLP in health, care, academia, and industry.
Who the course is for
This course is designed for learners who:
- Are data analysts or researchers interested in exploring text analysis using Natural Language Processing (NLP).
- Have intermediate-level experience with the R programming language.
- Work in or have an interest in the Health and Social Care sector.
Programme Structure
What you'll learn:
- Strings and Regular Expressions
- Loading and Using Data
- Cleaning and Preprocessing Data
- Word Frequency, Summarising and Visualising Data
- Stems, Lemmas, and Part of Speech (PoS) Tags
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 3 months
Start dates & application deadlines
Language
Delivered
Campus Location
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Health Sciences View 283 other Short Courses in Health Sciences in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Intermediate experience of R programming language
- To obtain additional information about the programme, we kindly suggest that you visit the programme website, where you can find further details and relevant resources.
Tuition Fees
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents293 GBP / full≈ 293 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents295 GBP / full≈ 295 GBP / full