Background A Public Health consultant colleague Ian Bowns (@IantheBee) created a report to monitor mortality within the Trust and he […]
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 […]
A common scenario: you are new to a programming language, chuffed that you’ve done a few bits and progressing well. […]
Having recently attended an R meetup in Birmingham, hearing of various user groups and hackathons that take place around certain […]
It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops […]
This blog was written by Zoe Turner, Senior Information Analyst at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Soon after I started […]
Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation in R Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments Loading in the […]
I went to the NHS-R Community Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. It was great. Here are three observations about it. […]
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, […]
This blog is an initial attempt to garner interest in a project to create NHS synthetic datasets in a range […]
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, […]
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 […]
