Publications by HighlandR
Solving small data problems with data.table
A question was asked in the NHS-R Slack channel a few weeks back. It was one of those strangely innocuous, but fiddly ones. A dplyr solution was offered, and accepted, but someone has to be the annoying person who offers a data.table solution, and that person is me. A badge I wear with honour, it has to be said. Here is the example data: demo <- ...
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Solving small data problems with data.table
A question was asked in the NHS-R Slack channel a few weeks back. It was one of those strangely innocuous, but fiddly ones. A dplyr solution was offered, and accepted, but someone has to be the annoying person who offers a data.table solution, and that person is me. A badge I wear with honour, it has to be said. Here is the example data: demo <- ...
2665 sym R (2363 sym/7 pcs)
Solving small data problems with data.table
A question was asked in the NHS-R Slack channel a few weeks back. It was one of those strangely innocuous, but fiddly ones. A dplyr solution was offered, and accepted, but someone has to be the annoying person who offers a data.table solution, and that person is me. A badge I wear with honour, it has to be said. Here is the example data: demo <- ...
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Rapid Analysis and Presentation of Quality Improvement Data with R
I presented at RMedicine2020 and really enjoyed it – It’s been a few weeks since R/Medicine2020, a virtual conference in conjunction with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Yale School of Public Health and the R Consortium. I presented a lightning talk to demonstrate runcharter and spccharter, which have been taking up a lot ...
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Rapid Analysis and Presentation of Quality Improvement Data with R
It’s been a few weeks since R/Medicine2020, a virtual conference in conjunction with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Yale School of Public Health and the R Consortium. I presented a lightning talk to demonstrate runcharter and spccharter, which have been taking up a lot of my free time over the last year. I was delighted to have my s...
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metallicaRt
Seek and Destroy meets School of Rock – What? On a whim, I created a collection of colour palettes based on Metallica album covers. Each is named using an abbreviation of the relevant album, or a snippet of a song title from the album. In most cases, the song chosen is one of the stand out tracks. I will take questions on that 🙂 Why...
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metallicaRt
On a whim, I created a collection of colour palettes based on Metallica album covers. Each is named using an abbreviation of the relevant album, or a snippet of a song title from the album. In most cases, the song chosen is one of the stand out tracks. I am happy to enter into discussion about my choices 🙂 Why? Because I saw this post on Twit...
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The day after
I woke yesterday to see ‘Excel’ trending on Twitter. However it didn’t take to long to discover this was not a good thing. For those not in the know, it turned out that an issue with importing data via Excel had caused a large number of cases to be missed from the UK Government Covid-19 data. The data pipeline consisted of data in csv forma...
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rockthemes
Classic rock album covers inspire even more R colour palettes – If you’d have asked me a few weeks ago if I wanted to create an R colour palette package, I’d have said “No way”. In fact, I’d have added “There are already MANY R colour palette packages, some might even say too many. The last thing the world needs right now ...
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Getting started with network plots
I’ve long been hoping for a reason to have to devote time to learning how to produce network plots. In my world, where bar and line charts reign supreme (with heatmaps and waffle charts thrown in occasionally) it is nice to be able to develop a new visualisation. I’ve been wanting to produce a network plot for some time. But, the data structu...
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