NHSDataDictionaRy – R package launch and how to use it
The NHS-R community commissioned a package at the start of the year to address the need to pull lookups real time…
Feature encoding methods – the Pandas way
This tutorial explores the various ways data can be encoded, using Pandas and Numpy, to prepare the data ready for a…
Deploying a CARET Machine Learning model as an API with Plumber
I have deployed many models in my time working as a Senior Data Scientist and as a Principal Analyst at Nottingham…
Creating Virtual Environments for Python Projects in VS Code
I had a similar problem recently, and then a request came through from a close friend (Chris Mainey) for the same…
ConfusionTableR package has a new function
The ConfusionTableR package has a new function. Welcome to var_impeR which takes a trained caret R model and produces a tibble…
Text Mining – Term Frequency analysis and Word Cloud creation using the tm package
Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments I think back to a post I put on the NHS-R community website, but never posted…
NHSDataDictionaRy webinar date and other brilliant webinars
This week is an exciting week. Why is this? Well an addition to the NHS-R communities packages has been launched –…
NHSDataDictionaRy package has arrived on CRAN
Thanks to the NHS-R community I have had time to work on another package, due to their pledge to get more…
A function to speed up and simplify writing to SQL Server databases in R
I had a recent enquiry on our NHS-R community slack channel about which package is best to work with larger datasets,…
Data.Table – everything you need to know to get you started in R
I will take you through step by step how to use the data.table package, and compare it with base R operations,…