The central aim of RCMI CC’s training is to promote collaboration in developing a project-based curriculum that introduces data science, AI/ML, and informatics fundamentals and tools using NIH-funded resources and datasets relevant to minority health and health disparities.
This learning research community is a 10-week series of technical lectures and workshops to introduce health disparity researchers to data science through practical, hands-on training. Lectures will introduce fundamental principles and techniques of data science in order to extract useful information and knowledge from data. In parallel to lectures, workshop participants will also learn how to explore data, define cohorts and build participant-level datasets using the All of Us Researcher Workbench. Participants will also learn how to write reproducible and modular code with R, including programming best practices.
Dates: September 6th – November 15th, 2022
Registration: Link to WAITLIST (DUE TO AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE, WORKSHOP REGISTRATION HAS BEEN CLOSED. WE WILL LET EVERYONE KNOW WHEN THE REGISTRATION RE-OPENS).
Schedule:
| Week | Lectures | Workshops |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to data science and health disparities seminar | Intro to R and RStudio |
| 2 | Minority Health and Health Disparities | Project Management with RStudio / Seeking Help / Writing Good Software |
| 3 | Introduction to Classification | Data Structures |
| 4 | Evaluating Classifier Performance | Exploring Data Frames / Subsetting Data |
| 5 | Using Proximity to Make Predictions | Control Flow / Functions Explained |
| 6 | Interrogating Assumptions | Creating Publications - Quality Graphics with ggplot2 |
| 7 | Introduction to Clustering | Splitting and Combining Data Frames with plyr |
| 8 | Analyzing Unstructured Text | Data Frame Manipulation with plyr |
| 9 | Introduction to Deep Learning | Data Frame Manipulation with plyr |
| 10 | Case Study: Topic TBD | Producing Reports with knitr |
Coming Soon – Details to follow
Coming Soon – Details to follow
The RCMI Coordinating Center Clinical Research Pilot Projects Program is intended to provide funding, on a competitive basis, for hypothesis-driven clinical research projects led by inter-institutional collaborative teams of multiple principal investigators (MPI) from two or more RCMI U54 Centers, along with at least one Mentor and at least one Collaborator from RCMI and/or non-RCMI grantee institutions. View Application Details.