January 19, 2020

Decade round up post

I’ve got into the habit of writing a yearly roundup blog post (see this blog, passim), based on a suggested framework by David Allen.

December 16, 2019

My superpower (a talk I gave about being ill)

So this post is nothing to do with R, or Linux, or statistics, or any of the usual stuff.

December 8, 2019

NHS-R conference

So I recently just got back from the NHS-R community conference, which was amazing of course, and it’s got me in the mood to share, so I’m writing a few blog posts.

November 6, 2019

Authenticating using LDAP from Active Directory using Shiny Server Pro

Right, I promised I would write this a very long time ago and I still haven’t done it.

October 31, 2019

Add label to shinydashboard

I feel like I’m sticking my neck out a bit here, and there’s a simple way to doing this that I haven’t found, but I’ve looked pretty hard and “add label to sidebar shiny dashboard” has basically no Google juice at all, and I should know because I’ve been staring at it for half an hour.

August 8, 2019

The analysts' manifesto

I was at an event a little while ago and there was talk of change coming for healthcare analysts.

July 2, 2019

Python, working together, and productionising code at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Someone just asked me a question on Twitter and I was most of the way through what would have been several tweets before I thought perhaps it would work better as a blog post.

May 25, 2019

A note for Kindle readers of my Shiny book

Someone has been in touch with me to say that the Kindle version has no chapter numbers and they were finding it difficult to figure out which bit of the book went with which bit in the repository.

April 5, 2019

The future of patient experience data at Nottinghamshire Healthcare

I’ve talked about my plans for patient experience data in quite a few different forums recently, but it just occurred to me that it isn’t written down anywhere.

March 31, 2019

Adding line returns in RMarkdown in a loop

Another one that’s for me when I forget. The internet seems strangely reluctant to tell me how to do this, yet here it is buried in the answer to something else.