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Spatial Analytics for Public Health Researchers
18th October 2019
Spatial Analytics for Public Health Researchers |
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| Organised by | University of Leeds, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics |
| Presenter | Dr Michelle Morris |
| Date | 18/10/2019 |
| Venue | Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) Level 11, Worsley Building University of Leeds |
| Map | View in Google Maps (LS2 9NL) |
| Contact | Kylie Norman, 0113 3430242, [email protected] |
| Description | This 1 day course offers an introduction to spatial analytics in a public health context. As spatial data sets get larger, more sophisticated software needs to be harnessed for their analysis. R is now a widely used open source software platform for statistical analysis and is increasingly popular for those working with spatial data thanks to its powerful analysis and visualisation packages. This course introduces the basics of how R can be used for spatial data. The course will begin with an overview of different spatial units and how they fit together. Public health examples will be used to illustrate the relevance of using each of these units. You will work through examples of how spatial units can be added into existing data sets. In the afternoon you will generate your first map using public health data.
Programme Objectives
Course Tutor Michelle Morris is an Academic Fellow of the University of Leeds and Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow, based in the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics. Her primary research interests are spatial and social variations in diet, lifestyle and health and how new and emerging data sources in these areas can best be utilised to benefit patient health outcomes. Last year she presented at the LIDA seminar, Big Data in Public Health – future horizons, applications and ethical issues, on the case for using Big Data to fill in the gaps in the narrative for public health research. Her unique career history (a degree in Neuroscience, working in industry in Health Informatics, and then gaining an MSc and then her PhD investigating, “Spatial analysis of dietary cost patterns and implications for health”) has perfectly fitted Michelle to embark on her University Academic Fellow vision of crossing discipline boundaries, bringing together people, data and methods to improve health through informatics – specifically combining consumer analytics with health informatics and using ‘big data’ to benefit patient outcomes. Is this course for me? This course is for researchers who want to start looking at spatial or social variations in their data and generating maps to present results. The course will assume that your knowledge of spatial scales and generation of maps is zero. Examples will all be from a public health context. |
| Level | Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge) |
| Cost | £70 students; £120 academic, public or charitable sector; £300 Other |
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| Region | Yorkshire and Humberside |
| Keywords | Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis, ICT and Software, R, Spatial Analytics, Public Health Research |
| Related publications and presentations | Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis ICT and Software |