Summary and Schedule
This is the format of the workshop on OMOP and R that will take place at the UCL Festival of Digital Innovation on July 15th 2025.
It is the initial work on a full Carpentries Course that we will begin to roll out from September.
A laptop
This lesson assumes you have current versions of the following installed on your computer:
- the R software itself, and
- RStudio Desktop.
You also need to download some files to follow this lesson:
- Download omop-data.zip.
| Setup Instructions | Download files required for the lesson | |
| Duration: 00h 00m | 1. Using RMarkdown | How do you write a lesson using R Markdown and sandpaper? |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 2. What is OMOP? |
What is OMOP? What information would you expect to find in the person table? What information would you expect to find in the condition_occurrence table? How can you join these tables to aggregate information? |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 3. Why OMOP? |
Why use OMOP? Why not use spreadsheets? What are the advantages of OMOP? What are the disadvantages of OMOP? |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 4. Chapter 3 OMOP measurement and observation tables |
What do the measurement and observation tables contain ? How do we access values ? |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 5. Placeholder Chapter 4 | What |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 6. Placeholder Chapter 5 | What |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 7. Placeholder Chapter 6 | What |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 8. Placeholder Chapter 7 | What |
| Duration: 00h 12m | 9. Placeholder Chapter 8 | What |
| Duration: 00h 12m | Finish |
The actual schedule may vary slightly depending on the topics and exercises chosen by the instructor.
This lesson assumes you have current versions of the following installed on your computer:
- the R software itself, and
- RStudio Desktop.
You also need to download some files to follow this lesson:
- Make a new folder in your Desktop called
omop_taster. - Download omop-data.zip and move the file to this folder.
- If it’s not unzipped yet, unzip it. There should now be a folder
called
datain theomop_tasterfolder. - You can access this folder from the Unix shell with: