Education and training
We recommend the following courses and resources if you would like additional training on data science and programming languages such as R, Sql, and Python.
Data
- Data Camp
This is a good resource for coursework in working with data (SQL, R, Python etc...) - Information Governance - Data Security Awareness
ICHT iCARE Data Researchers
Health and healthcare
- Digital Health
Introduces the field of digital health and the key concepts and definitions in this emerging field. The key topics include Learning Health Systems and Electronic Health Records and various types of digital health technologies to include mobile applications, wearable technologies, health information systems, telehealth, telemedicine, machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data. - Introduction to Quality Improvement in Healthcare
Introduces the concepts, theories and application of Quality Improvement (QI) in healthcare from a global perspective - Foundations of Public Health Practice: The Public Health Approach
Scope, origins and ethics of public health - Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis in Public Health
Introduces types of variables, common distributions, hypothesis testing
Python
- Introduction to Python
Python Essential Training - Applied Text Mining in Python
Introduction to Machine Learning NLP - Introduction to Data Science in Python
Introduction to Pandas - NHS Python Community
R
- R Course at Imperial Graduate School
Research, computing and data science skills courses - R for Data Science
Great textbook for learning R with principles of data science - NHS R Community
Open source community for R users in the NHS
Statistics
- Introduction to Statistical Learning
Textbook for statistics and a couple of machine learning topics - The Elements of Statistical Learning (PDF)
Foundation text for intersection of statistics and machine learning - Crash Course Statistics
A series of videos that straightforwardly explain statistics concepts
Snowflake
SQL
- Introduction to SQL
SQL tutorial