Categories

All (126)

Accessibility (1)

Addresses (1)

Committee (1)

Conference (15)

Covid-19 (1)

Data (10)

Debugging (1)

Discrete Event Simulation (2)

Forecasting (2)

Functions (8)

GIS (2)

Git (1)

GitHub (2)

Lists (1)

Loops (1)

Modelling (1)

NHS (5)

NHS-R (27)

Package (1)

Packages (9)

Patient Flow (2)

Personal experience (8)

Podcast (7)

Population (1)

Public Health (4)

Quarto (1)

R tips (19)

RAP (1)

RMarkdown (2)

RStudio (1)

Reflections (8)

Resources (1)

Run charts (2)

SPC charts (3)

SQL (5)

Scrollytell (1)

Shiny (2)

Statistics (9)

Strings (3)

Synthetic dataset (2)

Text Mining (1)

Training (3)

Visualisations (2)

Web scraping (1)

Workflow (1)

base R (10)

data.table (2)

dbplyr (1)

dplyr (8)

dygraphs (1)

ggplot2 (11)

golem (1)

html (1)

plotly (1)

shiny (2)

tidyverse (7)

zoo (1)

Blogs

Blogs are submitted from NHS-R Community members.

Creating synthetic data using the synthpop package

Data

CQC directory data vignette

Data

How to ask for help

Information of how to ask for help when you are stuck

NHS-R

R tips

NHS-R/NHS.Pycom conference 2023 my experience of the event

“Reflections on the 2023 Conference”

Conference

Pablo Leon-Rodenas

Publish on GitHub

“Publish free through GitHub”

GitHub

RMarkdown

Quarto

Showcasing a function - `separate()`

“Separating codes from one cell couldn’t be any easier in R”

R tips

Recoding an NA and back again

“Replace NAs with replace_na() and code to NA with na_if()”

R tips

Building a Quarto website for NHS-R Community

“Delving into the blog history of NHS-R Community as the site moves into the future with Quarto”

Reflections

Navigating the Data-Driven Frontier: Insights from an NHS-R Committee Member

‘It is with great excitement that I share my recent journey as a committee member with the NHS-R Community, a vibrant hub dedicated to championing the use of R and data science tools in the UK health and care system.’

Committee

Prajwal Khairnar

What is a “proper” data scientist anyway?

NHS-R

Coffee and Code

NHS-R

Simon Wellesley-Miller

What was the “Unconference”?

Conference

NHS-R Community needs help

NHS-R

Apha blog – August 2023

NHS-R

July Blog

NHS-R

AphA June Blog

NHS-R

NHS-R newscast 20th July 2023

NHS-R

Podcast

NHS-R newscast 25th May 2023

NHS-R

Podcast

AphA blog – May 2023

NHS-R

SQL

The data science assembly

NHS

RStudio and Git – selecting many files

RStudio

Git

AphA April 2023 Blog

NHS-R

Code snippets – 2 scale y axes in {ggplot2}

ggplot2

R tips

Code snippets – first(), last() and nth() {dplyr} functions

dplyr

R tips

Code snippets – regular expressions

Strings

R tips

A roundup from the 2022 NHS-R Conference – Part 2

Conference

A roundup from the 2022 NHS-R Conference – Part 1

Conference

Guest blogger – ChatGPT

NHS-R

Podcast

Fuzzy joining tables using string distance methods

Strings

tidyverse

NHS-R newscast 16th January 2023

NHS-R

Podcast

Reflections on the NHS-R Community Conference

Conference

NHS-R Workshop: Development and validation of clinical prediction models using R

Modelling

Posit + NHS-R: a Perfect Partnership!

NHS-R

Conference

NHS-R newscast 28th October 2022

NHS-R

Podcast

A dbplyr-based Address Matching Package

dbplyr

Addresses

Using RMD for academic writing

RMarkdown

NHS-R newscast 15th August 2022

NHS-R

Podcast

NHS-R newscast 6th July 2022

NHS-R

Podcast

The ‘nhsnumber’ package and the joy of sharing your niche

NHS

Package

New year, new laptop, new library location, new version of R!

R tips

Alignment cheatsheet

ggplot2

tidyverse

Visualisations

Success story - Kate Cheema, Director of Health Intelligence, British Heart Foundation

“Success story”

Reflections

Success story - Dr Lydia Briggs, Data Scientist, GOSH

“Success story”

Reflections

Success story - Dr William Bryant, Senior Data Scientist, GOSH

“Success story”

Reflections

NHS Low Income Scheme

golem

shiny

html

Accessibility

Scrollytell

Join the fun! Join NHS-R

NHS-R

Mohammed Amin Mohammed

Using R to create column charts featuring 95% confidence intervals

Statistics

tidyverse

ggplot2

Public Health

What a NHS-R Community Conference it was – simply wow!

“Summary and video links to the 2021 Conference”

Conference

Designing my first Shiny dashboard

Shiny

Functions

tidyverse

base R

GIS

zoo

plotly

Pablo Leon-Rodenas

NHS-R Community Conference: view from the The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)

“CSPs policy and research officer, asks how vibrant communities like NHS-R can help maximise shareable data solutions in physiotherapy”

Personal experience

Tracking and getting download statistics for your R packages

Packages

Functions

Lists

tidyverse

Optimising dplyr

dplyr

data.table

tidyverse

Using {sf} to calculate catchment areas

GIS

ggplot2

The Health Service Modelling Associates (HSMA) Programme – the future of analytics for health, social care and policing?

Discrete Event Simulation

Can we rely on synthetic data to overcome data governance issue in healthcare?

Synthetic dataset

Data

base R

Software licensing

NHS-R

Learned from Community

NHS-R

Discrete Event Simulation

Nujcharee Haswell

A thank you note to NHS-R Community

NHS-R

Two-Way Business Intelligence – Partnering Shiny and SQL to Capture Insights in Performance Reporting

SPC charts

Statistics

Shiny

SQL

Christopher Reading-Skilton

Hexitime is shortlisted as a finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2021

NHS-R

The NHS-R Community and Hexitime – Our 1st month of collaborating

NHS-R

NHS-R Community Team

NHS-R Community Conference – organisers’ perspective

Conference

NHS-R Community Team

NHS-R 2020 Week Long Conference – so much great content, so little time to catch it all…

“Summary and video links to the 2020 Conference”

Conference

NHSr – Rguably the Best Conference in the World

Conference

Announcing a new NHS-R + Hexitime partnership

NHS-R

Mohammed A Mohammed

NHS-R Book Club

NHS-R

Nujcharee Haswell

Member profile - Robin Hinks

“Profile from Robin Hinks, Research and Policy Officer, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy”

Personal experience

Annotating SPC plots using annotate with ggplot

SPC charts

Statistics

Christopher Reading-Skilton

We need you: share your COVID-19 work on NHSE/I’s regular mini-huddle series

Covid-19

Forecasting R (Virtual) Workshop – the pupil’s perspective

Forecasting

{phsmethods}: an R package for Public Health Scotland

Packages

Building the ONS mortality dataset

Taking the data from a wide format spreadsheet to a tidy long table

Data

Packages

Training

dplyr

Functions

Loops

Web scraping

SPC Charting in R

SPC charts

Statistics

Christopher Reading-Skilton

Our first ever NHS-R webinar!

NHS-R

Towards open health analytics: our guide to sharing code safely on GitHub

“Previously share on medium.com and kindly re-posted to NHS-R Community blog”

GitHub

NHSRdatasets meets runcharter

Data

Packages

Run charts

Statistics

John MacKintosh

Don’t Repeat Yourself!

“Writing functions to reduce repetition and improve productivity”

Functions

Data

How NHS-R Community do The Apprentice…

“Reflections on the Train the Trainer programme”

Personal experience

Training

Forecasting R

“Democratising forecasting project”

Forecasting

Bahman Rostrami-Tobar

The first ever train the trainer class 2019

Training

Mohammed A Mohammed

NHS-R Community Conference II

Personal experience

Welcome to Leeds

Personal experience

A new kid on the NHS-R block

Personal experience

NHS Number Validation

“NHS Numbers – the backbone of the NHS”

NHS

Packages

The NHS-R Conference 2019

“Our second ever NHS-R Conference in Birmingham”

Conference

Mohammed Amin Mohammed

NHS-R Community datasets package released

“This post briefly introduces an R package created for the NHS-R Community to help us learn and teach R.”

Packages

Data

How R changed me as an analyst

Personal experience

Dygraphs

“Interactive charts for mortality surveillance”

dygraphs

dplyr

base R

Exact Matching in R

“A case study of the health and care costs associated with living alone, using linked data from the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham”

R tips

Statistics

data.table

Data

SQL Server Database connections in R

“Getting data into R from SQL servers”

SQL

Count of working days function

Creating a function to work out the number of working days a seasonal bus ticket can be used.

Functions

Introduction to Funnel Plots

“An introduction to the use of Funnel Plots and the package {FunnelPlotR}”

Statistics

ggplot2

base R

rforhealthcare.org – A free online resource for all your R related healthcare needs

“statistical, R and Python resources.”

Resources

Moving on with the plan… And using R to do it! My personal experience…

“Forecasting models using R in NHS Improvement”

Personal experience

Format ONS spreadsheet

“Data cleaning the ONS provisional mortality spreadsheet”

R tips

dplyr

Using R to track NHS winter pressures

“I created an app which shows the distribution of a waitlist’s volume over time.”

NHS

ggplot2

dplyr

base R

Data

Animated Population pyramids in R: part 1

base R

Visualisations

tidyverse

ggplot2

Population

Anastasiia Zharinova

Animating a Graph Over Time in Shiny

“I created an app which shows the distribution of a waitlist’s volume over time.”

R tips

shiny

A run chart is not a run chart is not a run chart

“Understanding a run chart and the {qicharts2} package.”

Run charts

Statistics

A simple function to create nice correlation plots

“Hacking a visualisation function and creating a new one.”

Functions

Statistics

From script-based development to function-based development and onwards to Package Based development: part 2

“Building a package.”

Packages

Functions

Roadmap to collaborative working using R in the NHS: Part I- Workflows

“We finally have a tool that is data independent. This means that the door to working collaboratively on solutions is now wide open.”

Workflow

But this worked the last time I ran it!

“Debugging when your code worked and now doesn’t.”

Packages

Debugging

Public Health

Local Public Health joins the paRty

“Setting up an R group for Publich Health Intelligence”

Reflections

Public Health

Thoughts on the NHS-R conference

“Reflections on the 2018 Conference”

Conference

John MacKintosh

NHS-R Conference: was it worth it?

“Reflections on the 2018 Conference”

Conference

Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation in R

“Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments”

Text Mining

Conference

NHS-R Community Conference: My experience of the day

“Reflections on the 2018 Conference”

Conference

From script-based development to function-based development and onwards to Package Based development

“How to build a function.”

Functions

A simple function to install and load packages in R

“A function to install packages if needed and load at the same time.”

Packages

NHS open source public datasets – creating realistic synthetic datasets

“Syntethic or dummy data sets in the NHS”

Synthetic dataset

Data

How to extrapolate data from data

“Extracting data using {grepl} and {stringr}”

Strings

Evolution of the R user

“The stages of learning R (with excitement factor ratings)”

Reflections

Seb Fox, Julian Flowers and Georgina Anderson, Public Health England.

Even Simpler SQL

“SQL is great, and you should definitely learn it”

R tips

SQL

dplyr

Patient Flow

John MacKintosh

Simpler SQL with {dplyr}

“Comparing {dplyr} with SQL nested queries”

R tips

SQL

dplyr

Patient Flow

John MacKintosh

Why Government needs sustainable software too

“In this blog post I want to talk about why Government needs sustainable software, the work being done to deliver it, and the lessons we learnt after the first year.”

RAP

NHS

Diverging Bar Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2

“The aim here is to create a diverging bar chart that shows variance above and below an average line.”

R tips

ggplot2

base R

Histogram with auto binning in ggplot2

“Building the Histogram with auto binning”

R tips

ggplot2

base R

Diverging Dot Plot and Lollipop Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2

“The aim here is to create a diverging bar chart that shows variance above and below an average line.”

R tips

ggplot2

base R

The :: operator

“Sometimes two packages will have a function with the same name but they will do different things.”

R tips

R studio shortcuts

“There is a full list of short cuts here and I have pulled together my three most used shortcuts.”

R tips

Importing and exporting Data

‘There are a large number of file types that are able to store data. R is usually able to import most of them but there are some caveats.’

R tips

The joy of R

Reflections

Public Health

Pareto Chart in ggplot2

“These charts are highly utilised in Six Sigma circles and conform to the Pareto Principle.”

R tips

ggplot2

base R

Aiming for a wrangle-free (or reduced) world

‘I work as a Data Scientist at Public Health England. I am part of a small team that have a role in trying to modernise how we “do” data.’

Reflections

NHS meets R

NHS-R

Reuse

CC0