Chapter 3 Use Case Overview

Each use case (including required data, tasks/assignment(s), and/or solutions) is included as a subsection of Chapter 3. The below table links to use cases and briefly summarizes the competencies/skills used/addressed in each use case’s series of tasks.

Use Case	Competencies
Pharmaceutical Treatment of PTSD & Adverse Effects on Suicidal Behavior (See Chapter 3.1)	Data wrangling/management, model fitting, classification
Accessing the FDA’s FAERS Data (See Chapter 3.2)	Web/data scraping, data wrangling/management, joins/merging of data
Stock-Outs in Dispensing Machines (via St. Jude) (See Chapter 3.3)	Data wrangling/management
Age & BMI Comorbidity Risk Factors (See Chapter 3.4)	Data wrangling/management; Cross-ploatform (Excel-Python-R)
Identifying Overprescription in Dual Enrolled VA Patients 3.5	Pandas (general); Data merging; Matplotlib/Visualization (basic, general); Cleaning string data; Cleaning inconsistently coded data