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This course will explore how biostatistics and data visualization can be used to improve patient care and health outcomes. Students will learn and apply key concepts of effective data visualization to applications in individualized medicine. Teams of students will work with clinician-partners of the Hopkins Individualized Health Initiative (http://hopkinsinhealth.jhu.edu) to produce interactive web applications (http://shiny.rstudio.com) that support clinical decision-making by communicating a patient’s health state, prognosis, or expected treatment outcomes. R programming experience (AS.280.419, AS.280.346, or R programming course in coursera (https://coursera.org/course/rprog)) is necessary before the start of this course.