From ae9a377a6cfda92768482a288d656c7ffd71a3ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alistair Johnson Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 12:18:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add brief readme --- tutorials/README.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tutorials/README.md diff --git a/tutorials/README.md b/tutorials/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2265021 --- /dev/null +++ b/tutorials/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Tutorials + +This section provides a number of tutorials to provide guidance on using the MIMIC-III database. Tutorials are provided either as plain-text (`.md`), Jupyter Notebooks (`.ipynb`), or R Markdown files (`.Rmd`). If downloaded locally, the latter two tutorials are interactive, otherwise all tutorials can be viewed online. + +The tutorials currently available include: + +* cohort-selection.ipynb - Overviews selecting a cohort of patients from MIMIC-III. Topics include calculating patient ages, service type, and creating exclusion criteria. +* explore-items.Rmd - Exploring the data associated with various `itemid` in MIMIC-III, with specific focus on contrasting how there are two sources of data: CareVue and MetaVision. +* sql-intro.md - A gentle introduction to using Structured Query Language (SQL) with the MIMIC-III database, covering key tables and important SQL keywords. +* using_r_with_jupyter.ipynb - Demonstration of using a Jupyter Notebook with the R kernel to connect to a PostgreSQL database with MIMIC-III