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Advanced Data Analysis

Course Details

Course Number
NUTR 394
Associated Faculty
Elena N. Naumova

Course Description

This project-based course refines students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes for conducting advanced data analyses and answering complex research questions. We focus on understanding data limitations, formulating research objectives, conducting multi-stage data analyses, utilizing research workflows, and creating complex visualizations. Students will learn modern analytical methods and techniques essential for data analysis in a range of disciplines including nutrition, public health, medicine, environment, and climate. This course will provide readings, course projects, and practicum modules on current issues in research design, the scientific method, data quality and validity, data management, statistical software programming, biostatistical methodology, and research ethics. The course is also part of the NSF-funded study entitled SOLSTICE and incorporates Tufts IRB-approved essential research components such as pre- and post-course surveys and student consent forms. Designated time outside of the classroom is required for each student to work with their team partner to provide and receive feedback on homework assignments. Lab/technical sessions will be conducted online on Wednesdays.

Co-Instructor: Ryan B. Simpson

Syllabus: 
PDF icon NUTR 0394 Fall 2022.pdf

Prerequisites

Graduate-level or instructor consent in addition to the following:

Students should have knowledge of biostatistical methods in epidemiology, nutrition, or environment research. Recommended courses include:
Biostatistics / Statistical Methods for Nutrition I and II (NUTR 0206 & NUTR 0309) or Statistical Methods for Public Health Professionals I and II (NUTB 0250 & NUTB 0350) or Statistical Methods in Nutrition Research and Regression Analysis for Nutrition Policy (NUTR 0207 & NUTR 0307); or equivalent.

Students may use any software they wish (preferably R/RStudio) so long as it is sufficient to complete proposed analyses. We provide ample resources to build analytical skills but will not directly teach programming. Students should be able to do the following tasks before arriving to class:

  • Clean Data: import, export, transpose, arrange, and subset/filter data
  • Manage Data: generate, recode, rename, and label variables
  • Describe Data: run basic summaries, frequencies, and comparison tests
  • Visualize Data: basic histograms, bar charts, scatterplots, line graphs

Students should identify a dataset(s) relevant to their interests prior to the course. This, in addition to completing SOLSTICE-related surveys, is assigned in Module 0 and due 1 week prior to the start of the semester. The instructor and teaching assistant will approve dataset suitability. A compiled list of suitable datasets for your reference are available on the course's Canvas site (Files > Practicum).

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Fall 2023 Monday 4:00pm - 6:00pm, Wednesday 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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