Handbook

Health Data Scientists need to present information to audiences across a range of backgrounds and spanning a spectrum from naïve or non-practitioners of a discipline to highly informed and expert audiences. Effective communication across different media types is essential. Appropriate data visualisation techniques can greatly enhance communication and increase the effectiveness of communication. Increasingly the scientific community has become aware of problems regarding lack of transparency and reproducibility.

This course takes a toolbox approach to creating appropriate, reproducible and transparent analyses and visualisations. In the context of R, it presents useful best-practice data science analysis and visualisation techniques with a focus on different types of data visualisations.

A basic understanding of how people process information can ensure communication remains effective to an audience with a disability.