I had the pleasure of speaking at the last LondonR event of 2020. What a strange year it has been? But this put the icing on the cake. The premise The premise of my talk was to take a novel Kaggle parasite cell dataset and advocate how this type of classification task could be transported…
The NHS-R conference concluded, and I am emotional that it has ended. There were some fantastic speakers and the whole event, from start to finish was a blast. Openers I would like to include everyone on here, but the openers that had an impact for me are included below: Conference opening – the journey so…
The NHS-R conference is coming up and I have been invited to speak for the third year running, I know hat trick, as well as becoming an official fellow of the organisation, as I am now back with the NHS. This year I wanted to bring Deep Learning to the table, and my focus will…
The third in the series of Python Pandas tutorials. In this session we look at setting values, performing operations on data frames and histogramming.
In the previous post we worked with a custom data set we had created for the purposes of demonstration. This time we are going to work with the gapminder dataset. Viewing the gapminder dataset To initialise the gapminder dataset in my project I will use the below import statements to prepare the project ready for…
The Health Data Science Platform has been an endeavour of love. But what is it? Watch our technical team discuss how and why you should be switching to the DSP in your healthcare organisation Introducing the DSP The webinar explains why use the DSP, how to use the DSP and what the DSP does. Under…
I first started using Python a couple of years ago, when the limitations of some of the Deep Learning libraries in R became apparent. What I want to do is create a series of tutorials that allow you to get up to speed with Pandas for data frames in Python quickly. The first session will…
The pypyodbc is the library you need to drive the connection to a SQL server database. If, like me, you struggle with connection strings, then please navigate to this site for help with all types of connection string: https://www.connectionstrings.com/. Installing with pip install To install the relevant packages needed you will need to use pip…
Well, what can I say? It has been a blast over the past year and a half. In my time at the company I have managed to work on a number of fascinating projects, here is a list of just some of them: Data Science Platform – this has been the culmination of lots of…
My current company Draper and Dash have been working on the Healthcare DSP for a number of months and we are now ready to launch. Find out what the HTN had to say: https://www.thehtn.co.uk/2020/09/15/new-health-data-science-platform-launches/ A word from D&D’s Chief Technology Officer Data Science Resilience & Collaboration in times of unprecedented disruption https://t.co/pPYTw55w4g – all powered…
