R Blogs – Hutsons-hacks

Graph Data Modeling with Python

PythonGary Hutson30/06/20230

I am so excited to announce that I have a new book (in collaboration with Packt) that has just been launched, written with my co-author, the wonderful Matt Jackson. This books takes you from a nascent understanding of graph data science methods to a more confident user, all in under 250 pages. Matt and I…

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CRAN package development is addictive

R BlogsGary Hutson24/03/20220

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…

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R BlogsGary Hutson21/02/20220

SangerTools – a R package for working with population health datasets has arrived

Asif Laldin was the main developer of this package, but I contributed a few functions and offered overall package development advice.…

PythonGary Hutson05/01/20221

A package of Machine Learning datasets has arrived for R – MLDataR

I am proud to announce my seventh package for you lovely R folks. This time it is a collection of datasets…

R BlogsGary Hutson16/12/20210

TidyModels hands on for the NHS-R community – building a supervised ML classification model from scratch

The inclusive NHS-R community have welcomed me to complete my webinar hat trick for this year. In this webinar I focus…

R BlogsGary Hutson12/11/20211

What a NHS-R Community Conference it was – simply wow!

The NHS-R Virtual Conference concluded this week and we have had a number of excellent speakers from the Health & Social…

R BlogsGary Hutson07/10/2021

TidyModels or CARET – how they compare?

People have been telling me not to teach caret anymore, albeit I do teach TidyModels as well. Their argument is that…

R BlogsGary Hutson01/10/20210

Crash Course in R Model Deployment with Docker and friends

I have put together a complete guide to model training, docker file creation and then consuming your API in R. This…

PythonGary Hutson23/09/20210

Roll up, roll up the NHS-R Community Conference 2021 is coming to town

The conference will be held virtually and will kick-off : Monday 8th of November – Wednesday 10th November Featuring: Main Conference…

General musings!Gary Hutson17/09/20210

Common mistakes we Data Scientists make

DISCLAIMER I am a data scientist and have made all these mistakes, but I have had the privilege of sitting on…