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 ...

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 ...

When I am doing a Machine Learning project with R it is crucial to save those precious seconds, minutes, hours in model training. To make sure you optimise your CPU and crank up the performance you will need to load in the parallel and doParallel libraries, alongside library(caret). A ...

Motivation for this The background to this package linked to a project I undertook about a year ago. The video relates to the project and the how R really sped up the process. The exam question was to use a regression model to predict admissions and we had to evaluate, ...

My company Draper and Dash have tasked me with organising a wider meet-up event for anyone who is interested in AI / ML in healthcare. This wider working group consists of people from different sectors, however they are interested in how we can apply AI / ML methods in their organisations. Why ...

Lots of exciting things are happening with Draper and Dash at the moment. We have been working with key healthcare partners to design some core predictive machine learning algorithms to enable trusts to more effectively manage their performance, demand and capacity pressures. This series focuses on Stranded Patients and Super ...

What is DPLYR? Dplyr is a grammar of data manipulation, providing a consistent set of verbs that help you solve the most common data manipulation challenges. The next series of examples will show how you can use the shortcuts in Dplyr to achieve the results of traditional R data manipulation, ...

Violin Plots This chart is a combination of a Box Plot and a Density Plo that is rotated and placed on each side, to show the distribution shape of the data. The thick black bar in the centre represents the interquartile range, the thin black line extended from it represents ...