A REDCap-to-R Pipeline for Interactive Body Map Visualizations in Cutaneous Oncology

Abstract

A data science tool for interactive visualizations of skin cancer lesions

OVERVIEW

• Optimal Data Visualizations of patient-level data can facilitate data analysis and hypothesis generation
  
• Real World Data Collection efforts with an Electronic Data Capture (EDC) system like REDCap can be enhanced with well-designed pipelines using advanced data analytical software such as R
  
• The objective of this post is to generate an interactive data visualization of positional data, e.g. skin cancer lesions on a body map, that is captured in REDCap and processed in R
  
• In this post, we will walk through the steps to generate the following Interactive Body Map
  
• Of note, all clinical data is simulated. Any relation to actual patients is purely coincidental