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Flow diagrams

Flow diagrams

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Flow diagrams

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- [Instructor] In this course, I went through several flow diagrams. They were all similar but different. Let's recap those similarities and differences. I started by showing you an example of the type of flow diagram, I make for teams running a data warehouse. If you remember, since my teams often have subject matter experts from healthcare and not informatics, I typically abandon the traditional flow chart shapes and use more layperson friendly images to indicate what's happening in the data flow. Again, I use PowerPoint, a lot for these flows. But I did also mention Gliffy.com as an online software I use as well. In fact, I used Gliffy.com to make this flow chart, which I showed you earlier in the course. In contrast to the warehouse chart, which is about data flow in a data warehouse system, the analytic data flow happens in a study, and explains how you assembled an analytic data set for a study from multiple data…

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