/ds4ph-bme

A github repo for the Data Science in Public Health and Biomedical Engineering Course

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Introduction

A github repo for the Data Science in Biomedical Engineering and Data Science for Public Health Course.

JHU academic calendar JHBSPH academic calendar

Course location / time: Tuesdays and Thursdays

  • 8:30 - 9:50 at East Baltimore, the SPH building, Room W5030
  • 1:30 - 2:45 at Homewood Shaffer 304

Instructor office hours: 1st hour after class at each campus

  • E3610 of the SPH building
  • Clark 314 B at Homewood

TA office hours:

  • Homewood: Thursdays at 3:00 Ames 218
  • East Baltimore: Wednesdays at 3:00 room TBA

Course instructor: Brian Caffo

Course instructor and TA communication: slack

Quizzes: Quizzes will be given at the end of each Thursday class starting in the second week (PH) and first week (BME)

Homeworks: Homeworks will be assigned and due dates given in class

Project: final project will be handed in on the final class for each group. Rubric here (note subject to change)

Curriculum

Course communication

All course communcation will come be over the #ds4bme channel on the ds4bme2019 slack channel. Invites to the group will be given in the first class.

Grading

The course will involve three forms of evaluation: quizzes, homework and projects.

The final grade will be the average of the project, in class quiz grades and homework weighted equally.

The quizzes percentage will be calculated as:

(X1 + ... + Xk) / (P1 + ... + PK)

where the Xi and Pi are the student points and possible points on assessment i respectively.

The homework grade will be calculated in the same way.

Important computing resources