When I first started programming in Python this used to trip me up all the time. Hopefully through my pain I have managed to find a way to convey just how simple this concept is. Working with args These functions allow you to extend your function massively, as when you design functions, you don’t want…
This assumes you know how to programme in Python and know a little about n-dimensional arrays and how to work with them in numpy (don’t worry if you don’t I got you covered). PyTorch is a pythonic way of building Deep Learning neural networks from scratch. This is something I have been learning over the…
I have been working hard to compile a whole set of videos that help you to understand the core data structures that underpin the really powerful Python programming language. Tuples For tuples, you can view the code here, on GitHub. I would recommend you watch the video, pull the code linked here and code along….
Learn how object orientated programming works in Python. The video attached shows how to build a simple Transformers battle game and familiarise yourself with the knowledge of classes. This video takes you through: Classes and initialisation Methods Properties / Attributes Inheritance Instead of me writing all this down, it is better to watch the video…
During my R career I have had the opportunity to work on some really exciting projects, and with some really clever dude and dudettes. Through sitting in lectures and webinars and package development tutorials I thought perhaps I should make some of my code, that was sitting there in a dusty private GitHub repo, open…
Asif Laldin was the main developer of this package, but I contributed a few functions and offered overall package development advice. This is a great effort and is crammed full of functions for working with population health datasets, standardised rates, standard visuals, etc. It contains a smorgasbord of delightful functions to wet any R developers…
This tutorial has been borne out of the ability to port my development environments around. Most times I have to create requirements files to specify the dependent packages to be created in my virtual environments. Creating virtual environments To learn how to create virtual environments, see below: Anaconda: https://hutsons-hacks.info/creating-and-replicating-an-anaconda-environment-from-a-yaml-file PIP: https://hutsons-hacks.info/creating-virtual-environments-for-python-projects-in-vs-code The question I get…
I am proud to announce my seventh package for you lovely R folks. This time it is a collection of datasets aimed at giving people in healthcare, and beyond, some solid examples for using with R. There remains a few excellent packages for this, such as mlbench, but they are limited in the number of…
The inclusive NHS-R community have welcomed me to complete my webinar hat trick for this year. In this webinar I focus on building a ML model from scratch. The overview of the webinar is: Build your first Machine Learning classification model with tidymodels Understanding data processing for machine learning Evaluate your machine learning models with…
The NHS-R Virtual Conference concluded this week and we have had a number of excellent speakers from the Health & Social Care sector, alongside working with key partners of interest. It kicked off with a full day jammed packed of speakers from all over the NHS. The second day we had international speakers from the…
