NHS

A lightning talk tour of why `mgcv` is awesome, including what regression models are, options for dealing with non-linear relationships, what splines are, and how we can use splines in a Generalized Additive Modle (GAM). Simon Wood's excellent `mgcv` package makes this easy to build and fit.

A five minute overview of why data.table is awesome. It's fast, indexed, and holds more data than you can with plain data.frames.

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

A two-hour practical workshop on regression modelling, run twice on the second day of the conference.

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

Summary of how to use funnel plots and cusums to monitor mortality