Publications by Anthony B. Masters
ONS Monthly Mortality Analysis England
Purpose The purpose of this code is to make graphs showing age-standardised and age-specific mortality rates in England across time. A second graph shows the age-standardised components. These graphs use the Office for National Statistics’ monthly mortality analyses for England and Wales. The latest version is for September 2021. Packages and ...
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Rapid and Confirmatory Tests
Purpose The purpose of this R code is to produce a graph showing the impacts on infection probabilities following different test results. Packages and Themes First, we install the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(scales) Next, we set the plotting theme: theme_clean5 <- theme_bw(base_family = "Gill Sans Nova") + theme(legend.positi...
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StatsWales Vaccine Not Suitable for Use
Purpose The purpose of this code is to produce a graph of cumulative vaccine wastage by vaccine type in Wales. This open data comes from StatsWales. Packages and Themes First, we install the packages we need. library(httr) library(jsonlite) library(tidyverse) library(lubridate) library(scales) Next, I set the plotting theme. theme_clean4 <- them...
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NHS England Data Wrangling II
Purpose The purpose of this code is produce population estimate and vaccine coverage graphs for England by age group. This code directly wrangles data from the NHS England Covid-19 vaccine weekly report. Packages and Themes First, we install the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(readxl) library(curl) library(scales) Next, we set the p...
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NHS England Covid Hospital Beds II
Purpose The purpose of this code is show total Covid-19 beds in London, by primary diagnosis. This is given in two data files on the NHS England website. Packages and Themes First, we install the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(readxl) library(curl) library(scales) library(janitor) library(lubridate) library(patchwork) Next, we set ...
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NISRA Northern Ireland Weekly Deaths
Purpose The purpose of this code is to consider how to show other series on stacked bar graphs. As an example, we use weekly registered deaths in Northern Ireland, published by NISRA. Packages and Themes First, we download the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(readxl) library(curl) library(janitor) library(lubridate) Next, set the plo...
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ONS Relative Age-Standardised Mortality
Purpose The purpose of this code is to produce a graph showing relative age-standardised mortality rates in selected European countries. The Office for National Statistics published this analysis on 18th November 2021. Packages and Themes First, install the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(curl) library(readxl) library(lubridate) lib...
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Australian Deaths and Mortality Rates
Purpose The purpose of this code is to create graphs showing mortality statistics in Australia. The figures come from the Australian Bureau of Statistics API and a published online file. The ABS provisional mortality report for January 2020 to December 2021 is available online. Packages and Themes First, install the packages we need: library(tid...
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RSS Public Survey 2021
Purpose The purpose to create a graph showing posterior distributions for estimates in an RSS-commission survey of the public. Market research company Opinium conducted this survey. Packages and Themes First, load the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(curl) library(readxl) library(DirichletReg) library(scales) library(ggdist) library(...
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RSS MP Survey 2021
Purpose The purpose is to create a graph showing simultaneous confidence intervals for estimates in RSS-commmisioned surveys of MPs. The two surveys were by Savanta ComRes (Winter 2021) and Ipsos MORI (Winter 2011). Packages and Themes First, we download the packages we need: library(tidyverse) library(sysfonts) library(showtext) library(curl) l...
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