Open Resources for Teaching Data Science Skills

Question

How many of you are involved in helping students use data?

What are the issues we’ve encountered with graduate students?

• What is the appropriate research question?
• How do we present the data and tell a story?
• What are the ethical issues with reusing data?
• How do we assess the quality of a dataset?

Training Modules/Workshops that address these issues

• What is the appropriate research question for a dataset?
  • Data After Dark Workshop
• How do we present the data and tell a story?
  • Visualization and Interpretation
• What are the ethical issues with using data?
  • Ethical Issues in the Use of Big Data
• How do we assess the quality of a dataset?
  • Exploratory Data Analysis Workshop

All materials are freely available as Open Educational Resources!

http://github.com/OHSUBD2K

Exploring Data Quality Workshop

Can we combine data from two different sites for a single weight loss study?

https://github.com/laderast/shinyEDA

Acknowledgements

OHSU Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Training team:

• Bill Hersh
• David Dorr
• Melissa Haendel
• Shannon McWeeney
• Nicole Vasilevsky
• Jackie Wirz
• Bjorn Pedersen

BD2K Training Grant: 1R25EB020379-01

We love collaboration!

• These slides: http://laderast.github.io/data-sci-resources/
• Resources: http://github.com/OHSUBD2K

Open invitation to use and extend these materials!

• laderast@ohsu.edu
• @tladeras
• https://laderast.github.io
• BioData Club: https://biodata-club.github.io