Divisional Information Specialist, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust By Christopher Reading For some time the Information Department at Worcestershire Acute […]

The first of a series of weekly blogs on Forecasting R for participants and a wider audience. Please click on […]

One of the greatest benefits of using R over spreadsheets is that it's very easy to re-use and re-purpose code. Learn how to write functions to further improve your code re-usability and cut down on errors.

By Zoe Turner One of the tasks on the Apprentice a number of years ago was for the contestants to […]

By Bahman Rostrami-Tabar Democratising forecasting project The initiative sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters provides cutting-edge training in the use of […]

My journey to work takes me about an hour and a half, and I catch a couple of buses with […]

NHS Numbers – the backbone of the NHS NHS Numbers are the best. They are numbers that follow you through […]

I suspect there are many blogs about R and why it’s so great: It’s free! It’s open source! There’s a […]

Dygraphs for mortality surveillance I recently presented some of the mortality surveillance charts we use to @RLadiesLondon (a very welcoming group!) and […]

Exact matching in R: a case study of the health and care costs associated with living alone, using linked data […]

It’s at this time of year I need to renew my season ticket and I usually get one for the […]

Getting data into R One of the things I found most difficult when learning R was getting data from our SQL Servers […]

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, […]