Funnel plots Funnel plots are a common tool for comparing organisations or units using proportions or standardised rates. A common […]

Down in the South West of England we at the PenCHORD team of the NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula have […]

Background A Public Health consultant colleague Ian Bowns (@IantheBee) created a report to monitor mortality within the Trust and he […]

Every Thursday during winter, roughly from December to March, NHS Digital releases a week’s worth of hospital performance data, known as […]

                        I was interested in creating an animated graph […]

Understanding variation using runs analysis Run charts are simple and powerful tools that help discriminate between random and non-random variation […]

The problem I was working with a dataset where I wanted to assess the correlation of different variables in R. […]

At the NHS R Conference, I suggested to people that they should embrace the idea of package-based development rather than […]

We finally have a tool that is data independent. R allows the scripting of a data science methodology that we […]

At the NHS R Conference, I suggested to people that they should embrace the idea of package-based development rather than […]

Installation Instructions (Part 1 of 2) Windows Users To Install R: Open an internet browser and go to r-project.org. Click the […]

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

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, […]

comparing dplyr with SQL nested queries Following on from my last post, where I demonstrated R to some first time […]

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 […]

Diverging Bar Charts The aim here is to create a diverging bar chart that shows variance above and below an […]

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

Namespace issues Most of the functionality in R comes from additional packages that you load. Sometimes two packages will have […]