The digital universe is expanding continuously. This huge amount of information often referred to as big data have a huge potential to answer questions that could not be answered before. For example, in biomedical sciences, researchers increasingly make use of these Big Data, by pooling real-time data from multiple sources including electronic healthcare records in order to e.g. detect diseases at an early stage.
The summer school on big data will provide you with a sound introduction to this exciting new field in health research. Spanning topics such as:
This will be embedded in medical research through numerous real-life examples and case-studies.
The target group of this course includes advanced BSc and MSc students in biomedical sciences with a basic understanding of epidemiology and (medical) statistics.
A basics understanding of R or python programming languages is desirable; however self-study tutorials (~2 hours each) will be provided
Full time
Monday - Friday
10 - 17h
The housing costs do not include a Utrecht Summer School sleeping bag. This is a separate product on the invoice. If you wish to bring your own bedding, please deselect or remove the sleeping bag from your order.
For this course you are required to upload the following documents when applying: