Project management terminology is often used around epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and health data scientists, and it’s often hard for us to admit we aren’t familiar with some of the terms. Watch my videos and take my Applications Basics course to get up to speed with vocabulary from the health application development domain.
Monthly Archives: June 2023
“Rapid application development” (RAD) refers to an approach to designing and developing computer applications. In public health and healthcare, we are not taught about application development – but it’s good for us to learn about it, since we have to deal with data from health applications. My blog post talks about the RAD approach I […]
Understanding legacy data is necessary if you want to analyze datasets that are extracted from old systems. This knowledge is still relevant, as we still use these old systems today, as I discuss in my blog post.
Front-end decisions are made when applications are designed. They are even made when you design a survey in SurveyMonkey. What health data analysts often don’t realize is that these decisions have a profound impact on the quality and accuracy of the data that are collected through these front-ends, which is the focus of this blog […]
Reducing query cost is especially important in SAS – but do you know how to do it, or what it even means? Read my blog post to learn why this is important in health data analytics.