Publications by HighlandR

NHSRdatasets meets runcharter

02.12.2019

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...

3728 sym R (7482 sym/11 pcs) 2 img

NHSRDatasets meets runcharter

02.12.2019

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...

3620 sym R (7482 sym/11 pcs) 2 img

Programming with data.table

26.01.2020

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...

3865 sym R (6775 sym/17 pcs) 4 img

Programming with data.table

26.01.2020

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...

3963 sym R (6775 sym/17 pcs) 4 img

Programming with data.table

26.01.2020

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...

3958 sym R (6775 sym/17 pcs) 4 img

patientcounter

03.04.2020

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

03.04.2020

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

03.04.2020

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. ...

4663 sym R (1986 sym/4 pcs) 4 img

patientcounter

03.04.2020

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

17.07.2020

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 ...

3723 sym 20 img