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Deploy previews with GitHub pages
GitHub
learning
deployment
Wouldn’t it be nice if when a PR is created, you automatically got a deployed version of your changes to look at?
Dec 4, 2024
Rhian Davies
Using GitHub to plan and organise Coffee & Coding
GitHub
learning
Coffee & Coding is a fortnightly hour-long session organised by the Data Science team, open to all members of the Strategy Unit with an interest in coding. It’s been well…
Nov 12, 2024
YiWen Hon
Map and Nest
purrr
R
tutorial
I want to share a framework that I like using occasionally for data analysis. It’s the nest-and-map and it’s helped me countless times when I’m working with related…
Aug 8, 2024
Rhian Davies
Storing data safely
learning
R
Python
In a recent Coffee & Coding session we chatted about storing data safely for use in Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAP), and the slides from the presentation are now…
May 22, 2024
YiWen Hon
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Matt Dray
One year of coffee & coding
learning
The data science team have been running coffee & coding sessions for just over a year now. When I joined that Strategy Unit, I was really pleased to see these sessions…
May 13, 2024
Rhian Davies
RStudio Tips and Tricks
learning
R
In a recent Coffee & Coding session we chatted about tips and tricks for RStudio, the popular and free Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that many Strategy Unit…
Mar 21, 2024
Matt Dray
Visualising participant recruitment in R using Sankey plots
learning
tutorial
visualisation
R
Sankey diagrams are great tools to visualise flows through a system. They show connections between the steps of a process where the width of the arrows is proportional to…
Feb 28, 2024
Craig Parylo
Nearest neighbour imputation
learning
Recently I have been gathering data by GP practice, from a variety of different sources. The ultimate purpose of my project is to be able to report at an ICB/sub-ICB level
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Jan 17, 2024
Jacqueline Grout
Advent of Code and Test Driven Development
learning
Advent of Code is an annual event, where daily coding puzzles are released from 1st – 24th December. We ran one of our fortnightly Coffee & Coding sessions introducing…
Jan 10, 2024
YiWen Hon
Alternative remote repositories
git
tutorial
It’s great when someone send’s you a pull request on GitHub to fix bugs or add new features to your project, but you probably always want to check the other persons work in…
Apr 26, 2023
Tom Jemmett
Reinstalling R Packages
git
tutorial
R 4.3.0 was released last week. Anytime you update R you will probably find yourself in the position where no packages are installed. This is by design - the packages that…
Apr 26, 2023
Tom Jemmett
Creating a hotfix with git
git
tutorial
I recently discovered a bug in a code-base which needed to be fixed and deployed back to production A.S.A.P., but since the last release the code has moved on significantly.…
Mar 24, 2023
Tom Jemmett
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