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Using GitHub to plan and organise Coffee & Coding

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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

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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

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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, 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

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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

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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 level1.…
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

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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

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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

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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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