Publications by HighlandR
NHSRdatasets meets runcharter
Big up the NHS – Background The NHSRdatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am an NHS data analyst, let’s take a look at it. Thanks to Chris Mainey and Tom Jemmett for getting this together. Load packages and data As above let’s load what we need for this session. The run...
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NHSRDatasets meets runcharter
Big up the NHS – Background The NHSRDatasets package made it to CRAN recently, and as it is designed for use by NHS data analysts, and I am an NHS data analyst, let’s take a look at it. Thanks to Chris Mainey and Tom Jemmett for getting this together. Load packages and data As above let’s load what we need for this session. The run...
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Programming with data.table
Flexible functions in data.table I’m getting slightly more experienced with data.table, and I really like it. My learning method was to get pretty deep for a month, reading everything I could and replicating my dplyr code in data.table. I then stopped using it for a month, and carried on with dplyr. Then I tried switching back to data.table aga...
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Programming with data.table
getting started with multiple bare variable names in data.table functions – Flexible functions in data.table I’m getting slightly more experienced with data.table, and I really like it. My learning method was to get pretty deep for a month, reading everything I could and replicating my dplyr code in data.table. I then stopped using i...
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Programming with data.table
getting started multiple bare variable names in data.table functions – Flexible functions in data.table I’m getting slightly more experienced with data.table, and I really like it. My learning method was to get pretty deep for a month, reading everything I could and replicating my dplyr code in data.table. I then stopped using it for...
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patientcounter
fast, flexible census tables – Counting patients is hard Blimey. It’s over 3 years since I collaborated with Neil Pettinger on some plots to demonstrate patient flow, using R. What started out as a supposed quick blog post morphed into several weeks of work, a blog post, workshops in Perth and Birmingham, and a much bigger audience t...
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patientcounter
fast, flexible census tables – Counting patients is hard Blimey. It’s over 3 years since I collaborated with Neil Pettinger on some plots to demonstrate patient flow, using R. What started out as a supposed quick blog post morphed into several weeks of work, a blog post, workshops in Perth and Birmingham, and a much bigger audience t...
4472 sym R (1986 sym/4 pcs) 4 img
patientcounter
Tracking patient movements is difficult It’s over 3 years since I collaborated with Neil Pettinger on some plots to demonstrate patient flow, using R. What started out as a supposed quick blog post morphed into several weeks of work, a blog post, workshops in Perth and Birmingham, and a much bigger audience than either of us had ever imagined. ...
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patientcounter
fast, flexible census tables – Counting patients is hard Blimey. It’s over 3 years since I collaborated with Neil Pettinger on some plots to demonstrate patient flow, using R. What started out as a supposed quick blog post morphed into several weeks of work, a blog post, workshops in Perth and Birmingham, and a much bigger audience t...
4472 sym R (1986 sym/4 pcs) 4 img
SIMD Revisited
SIMD data without maps – The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation updated for 2020 I have blogged about the SIMD previously. The last time was using data from 2016. Earlier this year, the data was refreshed, and my friend David Henderson was hot off the press with some very nice plots indeed. Even better, he’d shared his code, so ...
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