NHS

New job klaxon!

Moving on I’m delighted to announce that, from the beginning of March, I’ll be moving on form hed/UHB Informatics to join the National Patient Safety Team at NHS England/ NHS Improvement. in March,as Patient Safety Lead - System Analysis and Delivery. Looking forward to applying my PhD work at national level & leading new developments in #patientsafety analysis.

Building predictive models with HED data using R

How we've used R to model hospital readmission in R, and how we've overcome the challenges with this.

Regression Modelling in R

A two-hour practical workshop on regression modelling in R.

Data Science on a budget

Panel discussion on data science on a budget featuring Christian Last, Data Scientist at Skwire, and myself.

Why and how to build an R package

A overview of how to connect to, and use SQL databases in R.

Text Mining Patient Safety Data

This talk will discuss my PhD work in text mining patient safety incident reports in the NHS.

Why is my model so bad?: Tales of a wandering PhD student - CANCELLED DUE TO LOCKDOWN

Tales of learning to build count data models when you can't tell if you're wrong.

Building funnel plots for comparing standardised ratios, the FunnelPlotR package

We will discuss what funnel plots are, how to build them, what overdispersion is and how we can adjust plots for this. We'll see the FunnelPlotR package and how it works.

Database Connections in R

A overview of how to connect to, and use SQL databases in R.

Adopting R in an NHS informatics department

Summary of our use and adoption of R, and how this might help other organisations.