Interested in data analytics and data visualisation to help decision making @nickforr@mastodon.social
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Nick Forrester retweeted
To the world: what is the point of saying «never again» for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating…
Nick Forrester retweeted
The 'Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps' book is available in print!
colinfay.me/engineering-shin…
#RStats #Shiny #golem
Nick Forrester retweeted
Hello connections!
We are #hiring! I have an amazing team here and we need to grow. If you're in #statisticalprogramming or #datascience and you're interested in furthering the use of #opensource (primarily with #rstats) within #pharma, reach out!
#…lnkd.in/d4ZauxN
Nick Forrester retweeted
We want epidemiologists and data scientists for our open science revolution.
We will take:
- Grade 7
- Grade 8
- Clinical Academic
- More senior people (email me).
- NHS Analysts including by secondment
Come. Come. Come. Learn. Share. Build the open future.
WE ARE HIRING
Last round for a bit, so last chance.
We want great EPIDEMIOLOGY or DATA SCIENCE people who buy into our vision of OPEN SCIENCE and want to use, build, and spread OpenSAFELY across the system. You'll be researching, collaborating, training
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
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I'm dismayed we're still seeing this kind of evidence-free shaming a year into the pandemic.
Individuals and small household groups walking around in parks, fully distanced is ... not how it spreads.
There's absolutely no evidence for it, but the myth has somehow stuck around.
Nick Forrester retweeted
One not to miss: an Integrated Data Platform event for @ONS feat Dr Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre. Ben will talk about having an open approach to research (including code-sharing) + a Q&A. Register now and you'll get the event link closer to the date: bit.ly/IDPBenGoldacreEvent 🖥️
Nick Forrester retweeted
Lockdown has made me miserable.
Covid has me terrified. Read this thread to see why: this is not flu.
Stay home. Follow the rules. Be good to each other. Keep well.
Nick Forrester retweeted
Don't trust choropleth maps. Evidence from Switzerland! 😉 #RStats
Shout-outs to @thomasp85 for {transformr}/{particles}, @hadleywickham et al. for {ggplot2}/{dplyr}, @edzerpebesma for {sf}, @politan_ch for {swissdd} and @hrbrmstr for {hrbrthemes}.
➡️ github.com/zumbov2/votemapsw…
Nick Forrester retweeted
Looking at this scatter plot of Covid mortality and GDP loss across EU, rather than a trade off, you might be tempted to say that there were simply some countries that handled the crisis well and others that did not.
ft.com/content/71c8a636-4d40…
Nick Forrester retweeted
Here comes a thread about something I think could be important
Tomorrow is #WorldMentalHealthDay. And if there was EVER a year where we need to be aware of everyone’s mental health, it’s this one. 2020 has been... well, you know
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Nick Forrester retweeted
RStudio v1.4 Preview Release, including a new visual markdown editor, is available now!
blog.rstudio.com/2020/09/30/…
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UPDATE: @ntzm_ points out this is a separate privacy setting from when you change who can see your activities - all settings default to 'Everyone' but this feature will only be disabled if you turn off 'Flyby'
teapawt.org/ntzm_/status/130553275…
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Nick Forrester retweeted
Hey Twitter!
I'm launching a "Run for @RLadiesGlobal" online event 🎉
The idea is simple: you select one or more runner(s) to sponsor, they do their 🏃♂️, and then you match 1 $/€ by km with a donation on the RLadies website!
More details
colinfay.me/run-rladies/
(Please RT)
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Ready or not, here comes a thread on making R packages. I want to tweet about this on the Women in Stat account because women are underrepresented as R package maintainers. (1/)
Nick Forrester retweeted
I was quite excited to spot this via @Rbloggers, from @jumping_uk, Detecting Vulnerabilities in R Packages jumpingrivers.com/blog/r-pac… #rstats Can’t hurt to run this every so often if you’re a heavy R user. Nice work, Colin.
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somebody should hire this person, quick 👇
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BING BONG NEW PAPER
NHS hospital medicines data is being collected, but then needlessly withheld from analysts.
This means patients are exposed to sub-optimal treatment. And NHS money is being wasted.
The barriers are NOT technical. They are "people".
bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m260…
Nick Forrester retweeted
Just to finish, there are some "we'll know we've won when" statements. My favourite: "We'll know we've won when there are staff at board-level in managerial / strategic roles who once did an inner join in SQL, just as we have clinical leaders who once treated 1000s of patients."
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BING BONG NEW PAPER
We pulled together a huge team to look at how we can bring NHS data analysis into the 21st century.
THREAD!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
