Analysing the pre-conference workshop sentiments I think back to a post I put on the NHS-R community website, but never posted on my own site, as I have been doing some textual analysis recently and referenced this post again. The driver for this package is the tm package and is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: #install....

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...