Glossary – Data Science for Practicing Clinicians

Key Points

Introduction into R	Data is structured and can be broken down into basic building blocks
Excel Hell	What are you analysing? One row per observation Organise the spreadsheet for the computer, format for yourself
Getting Data into R	Importing data into R using commands provides long term benefits for reproducibility
Data Wrangling	The process of transforming data from a raw to more usable format Most easily using packages from the tidyverse
Data Viz
Just Enough Statistics	Statistics is the science of learning from data