Tag Archives: back-end programming

Excel for Managing Research: Learn How to Use Microsoft Excel as a Research Management Tool

I have used Excel for managing research since the early 1990s, when I was mentored by a grants administrator who took me under her wing. She showed me how to use abstract deadline grids, grant submission grids, and action item grids to manage research activities. Now, I’ve made these skills available to you through my online course, “MS Excel for Managing Research”!

Excel for Managing Research is a short, practical course that will give you the skills you need to run research teams and activities using this simple, flexible tool!

Rapid Application Development Public Health Style

If you work on front-ends or back-ends of health applications, you are probably already familiar with the concepts of Agile and rapid application development.

“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 […]

Front-end Decisions Impact Back-end Data (and Your Data Science Experience!)

How the front-end and back-end are connected can impact how data are stored in the application. So if you extract the data, you can have data quality problems caused by the front-end.

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 […]

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