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 […]
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, […]
There are many occasions when a column of data needs to be created from an already existing column for ease […]
Adapted from source: https://www.r-project.org/logo/ The beginning My journey with R began when a colleague of mine said […]
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, […]
