The purpose of this elective is to familiarize students with all aspects of the Virtual Data Warehouse (VDW). The course will consist of a a mixture of virtual lectures and hand on exercises. At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to: - Perform a query in Slicer Dicer - Clean data extracted from the VDW -Validate data extracted from the VDW - Discuss and apply different de-identification methods