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I went to the NHS-R Community Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. It was great. Here are three observations about it. […]

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I was starting to despair at the amount of packages I end up using during the task of transforming, cleaning, […]

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There are many occasions when a column of data needs to be created from an already existing column for ease […]

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I’ve had some feedback on the last post, and rather than repeat the same thing multiple times, I’m going all @drob, […]

knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE, message = FALSE, cache = TRUE, warning = FALSE) if(!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman") library(pacman) p_load(readxl, tidyverse, corrplot, tmap, geojsonio, […]

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Violin Plots This chart is a combination of a Box Plot and a Density Plo that is rotated and placed on each side, […]

Background of Pareto Charts A Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual […]

Histograms (with auto binning) Again, we will use the mtcars dataset and use the fields in that to produce the […]

Creating the Dot Plot Variance chart The data preparation was used in the previous blog entitled: Diverging Bar Charts – Plotting […]

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Unlike most of the 2017/2018 cohort, when I applied to become a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, I was […]

I love keyboard shortcuts. I work in R studio and using keyboard shortcuts has saved me a lot of time. […]