Accessing Course Data and Technology Platform

Background

We are excited to be able to provide a completely free online technology environment and facilitate access to a real clinical data set (MIMIC-III, mimic.physionet.org ) to support your learning in this specialization thanks to the generosity of our industry partner Google Cloud.

To access the course data you MUST:

1. Provide a valid google account (i.e., an email address that ends in @ gmail.com ). You can create a free account at https://accounts.google.com/SignUp

2. Agree to the MIMIC-III Data Use Agreement (and provide the information required including your full name, country and state).

3. Agree to the Technology Platform Terms of Service

If these conditions are not met then you will not be eligible for the specialization or course certificate/s and forfeit any payment made to Coursera. If you do not agree you may still be able to access all ungraded materials available on the Coursera platform.

Privacy Policy

In order to grant you access to these materials we will ask you for some personal information.

1. Your gmail account is Required . This information allows you to: log in to Google BigQuery, log in to the RStudio computational environment, comply with MIMIC-III data access policies.

2. Your name, country, and state (where applicable) are Required . This information allows you to comply with the MIMIC-III data access policies

3. Your city, organization, and department are Optional. These are data the MIMIC-III requests of all users, but does not require for access. You do not have to provide this information if you do not wish.

We take your privacy very seriously. We will use and share your information only in the following ways:

• Email addresses will only be used to provide access to the listed services and email you with important updates to your account which may include: notice of account creation, notice/warning of account expiration, notice/warning of exceeding storage limits, notice/warnings of policy violations and account suspension.

• Name, email address, country, state (where applicable), city, organization, and department, along with data access logs will be shared with the Laboratory for Computational Physiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to comply with the regulatory restrictions placed on this data. This shared data will be governed by their Privacy Policy ( https://physionet.org/privacy.shtml )

• We may publicly share anonymized resource usage data (e.g., data generated from computational resource and data access logs). This data will be fully de-identified before we share this information (except as described above for compliance with MIMIC-III data use policies)

Please note that while the course team will only use your email for the stated purposes, if this is the same account you used for your Coursera registration you may receive emails from Coursera and/or the course as governed by the Coursera Privacy Policy ( https://www.coursera.org/about/privacy) .

A copy of our privacy policy is always available at: privacy.learnclinicaldatascience.org

Registering for Access

To register for access to the technology platform and access to the MIMIC-III data set visit: tech-registration.learnclinicaldatascience.org

Your account will take 10-15 minutes to be created. After that time you will be able to access:

• RStudio Computational Environment at rstudio.learnclinicaldatascience.org

• MIMIC-III Demo Data on Google BigQuery at bigquery.cloud.google.com/project/learnclinicaldatascience

Course 1 Weeks 2 & 3 cover more information about how to use these tools.

Please note that if you are taking multiple courses in the Specialization you only need to register for access once - we give each learner access to the platform for enough time to complete the entire specialization.