This past week our group prepared a presentation, and discussed our project and an overview of our findings to a research group at Simmons. It was definitely a good experience, and I’m glad I was able to get to practice …
Clinical Narratives
Stephanie – week 11&12
This week I got to use R to analyze the CSV file. I ran some descriptive analysia on them, and also wrote some code to produce some graphs. I ran into an issue with how the file was configured however. …
Stephanie – week 9&10
So we now have access to a server, and since I’ve never used one before I spent time teaching myself how to navigate it using some online tutorials. We also ran some initial analysis on the csv file that contained …
Stephanie – week 7&8
We’re still having a few issues getting our server up and running, but it should be happening soon. Meanwhile, we spent some time reading papers related to our research, and I brushed up on my R skills. …
Week 13 – Katie
The code I was working on is going well, but not complete yet; testing my own code has shown a few inconsistencies, which I've addressed as necessary.
This past week, on Dec. 8, we presented an overview of our project …
Weeks 11 & 12 – Katie
In the past couple of weeks, I've attempted to combine all of the Python classes I've written in order to extract data from XML files, store them in Patient objects, and assess discrepancies in the clinical narratives.
My part of …
CREU Weeks 11 & 12 – Rebecca
After having Thanksgiving break, we decided to lay out our game plan for the rest of the semester. I will continue looking into discrepancies between medical records. Specifically, I'm looking into patients' smoking statuses. It's common for one record to …
Weeks 9 & 10 – Katie
We have a server! We spent our most recent meeting figuring out who has access to which parts of it and other things like that. The next step is to learn how to navigate the server; I lucked out and …
CREU Weeks 9 & 10 – Rebecca
Our server is finally working! I've been learning how to use the command line and how to SSH into the server. Having remote access will be especially useful for me, since I live off campus. Yay!
We also did some …
Weeks 7 & 8 – Katie
It's been tricky to get a server instantiated to keep all of our data in one place, but we're working on it! In the meantime, I read some papers related to our project, including one that Professor Stubbs worked on, …