Philosopher Analyst

Prework for courses

A short description of the post.

Finding special characters

Special characters

Notes on getting the ë using shortcut keys on a Windows computer.

Losing the plots

When losing my plotting coding turned into a learning opportunity.

Creating a caseload over time in SQL

SQL
Caseload

How to count referrals/patients/anything between two dates in a given period of time.

Creating a caseload over time in R

Generate data
R
Caseload

How to count referrals/patients/anything between two dates in a given period of time.

Finding SQL varchar(max)

SQL
Error in R

SQL code to find the columns of max that need to be moved to the end of code for importing to R

Using the monstR package

ONS data
R

Gettting regional deaths from the monstR package

Creating sample datetime data in R

R
Generate data

How to produce a reproducible example (reprex) for datetime

Adding Disqus to distill blogs

Distill

Notes on adding comments to distill pages.

Data Ethics

Philosophy
Ethics

Philosophers are experts in their field

Publishing xaringan slides

Xaringan
GitHub

Notes on how I published my NHS-R Conference lightning talk

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Philosopher Analyst

SQL

You can take the Analyst out of Philosophy, but never the Philosophy out of the Analyst

Philosopher Analyst

I am a Data Scientist working in the data science team within the clinical development unit of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust where I spend my days working with mental and general health patient level data, as well as Public Health data. I’m also involved with the trust’s Ethic Committee and consequently reviving my former interest medical ethics.

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