This week is an exciting week. Why is this? Well an addition to the NHS-R communities packages has been launched – the NHSDataDictionaRy – now on CRAN. To learn how to use this please look below. I am so excited about the launch of this package and I really think it will help to standardise…
Thanks to the NHS-R community I have had time to work on another package, due to their pledge to get more packages in R funded. A big thanks to Mohammed Amin Mohammed and all the R community team. This package utilises all the excellent lookups provided by NHS Digital and the NHS Data Dictionary and…
I had a recent enquiry on our NHS-R community slack channel about which package is best to work with larger datasets, such as 5 million plus records, with high dimensionality. I got to thinking that the DBI and odbc packages would be best for this purpose, as this is still not considered big data, it…
I will take you through step by step how to use the data.table package, and compare it with base R operations, to see the performance gains you get when using this optimised package. Load in data.table To load the package in you can follow the below instructions: 1 2 #install.packages(data.table) library(data.table)#install.packages(data.table) library(data.table) You should now…
I am really excited to announce my beta package and it is now available to download on GitHub. This is my third package I have managed to create. I have many more projects, tutorials and code snippets available on my GitHub site. I hope you find it useful and read below to find out how…
I have recently uploaded my first R package to the CRAN repository, it needs an additional revision, but it is now there. I wanted to know how many downloads it has had since its release on CRAN last month. I thought shall I write a package, but alas there is one already available. The dlstats…
Wednesday (20th January 2021) myself and a colleagues Andreas kicked off the first webinar of 2021 for the NHS-R Community with our look at the benefits of using reticulate for joining up R and Python. What was the webinar about? The webinar was split into two sections: The first session involved me taking the functionality…
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…
