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The UMB ICTR is a campuswide clinical translational research initiative supported by the UMB campus. The UMB ICTR provides financial support as well as infrastructure, environment, training, and workforce to invigorate, facilitate, and accelerate clinical translational research to improve patient and community health.
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ICTR Enrichment Series: Getting Connected to your Data – A Reproducible Workflow for Data WranglingWrangling. Munging. Data Sanitation. These and other names describe an aspect of the data analysis life cycle typically thought of as boring and unglamorous, but which occupies the majority of time spent during a data analysis project. The time you spend in preparing your data for analysis, while crucial, cuts into the time available for using software to produce a visualization, calculate a statistic, or run a favorite machine learning algorithm. The goal of this seminar is to provide a reproducible workflow for performing your own data wrangling. I will suggest methods to help you to: 1) get to know your data, 2) cultivate habits that will help you to spend less time on wrangling, and 3) optimally prepare your data for the output you're interested in producing.
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ICTR Enrichment Series: Leveraging Informatics Services at UMB to Make the Most of Your Research FundingThe purpose of this presentation is to introduce some of the informatics tools and services available to all UMB faculty. It will be directed towards trainees and early-stage researchers from all the UMB schools. We will focus on three services: the Research HARBOR, TriNetX, and REDCap. We will provide an overview of each, along with some tips and tricks to improve the quality of your next research project while making it faster, easier, and cheaper.
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ICTR Enrichment Series: Should There be an App for That? Tips for Success in Funding and Developing Digital Technology-Based InterventionsThere is great interest in how digital technologies, such as mobile phone apps, wearables, and games, can improve health outcomes and the patient experience. However, the technical ability to digitize an intervention, in and of itself, is likely not sufficient justification for obtaining funding. Other factors, such as market feasibility, user engagement, and integration with existing technologies, must also be considered. This seminar will provide tips for how to propose and design digital tools that are user-centered, grounded in science, and likely to truly improve existing clinical practices. Trends in digital health technology design, such as use of gamification and artificial intelligence capabilities, will also be discussed.
