NHS-R Community Conference Workshops 2019

This repository holds the content for the NHS-R Community conference, 4th & 5th November 2019.

Plenary session and lightning talk material will be shared in the relevant folders, and workshop details are below.

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Workshops

The conference programme includes several workshop session. Please make sure you are aware of the session you are attending and have the considered how you will access the material (see below). Workshops will begin promptly and presenters will assume you can access the relevant material.

Workshop sessions

Day1

Workshop	Name	Presenter	Link
1	R for Novices	Ozayr Mohammed & Andrew McCann	GitHub
2	R for Excel Users	Sean Manzi	GitLab
3	Simulation modelling of patient flow using routinely collected data, with r-simmer	Tom Lawton	GitHub
4	Natural Language Processing (NLP) with R	Steph Locke	See NLP_workshop folder
5	Explainable Machine Learning	Hannah Frick	GitHub
6	Introduction to ggplot2	Rhian Davies	GitHub

Day 2

Workshop	Name	Presenter	Link
7	Automation with R: creating the infrastructure	David Whiting	GitHub
8	A worked introduction to Population Segmentation and PHM analytics	Adrian Pratt & Richard Wood	GitHub
9	Introduction to Functional Programming	Thomas Jemmett & Andrew Jones	GitHub
10	Introduction to data wrangling	Emma Vestesson	GitHub
11	Regression Modelling in R	Chris Mainey	GitHub
12	Introduction to Shiny	Chris Beeley	GitHub
13	Introduction to RMarkdown	Matthew Francis	GitHub

For workshop attendees:

There are two ways to access the workshops:

• Using the RStudio Cloud Workspace (Our prefered option): All material is available in the conference workspace: https://bit.ly/2Nnblc2 . This works from your web browser, and you do not need R and Rstudio installd on your machine to access it.

• Using your own machine: You can download zip files of each workshop, or if you are familiar with Git and GitHub, you can clone the repository. Follow the links in the table above to the relevant workshops.

If you are unsure about your setup, or unable to access the material on your own machine, please use the RStudio Cloud method.

To download and use this material on you machine, please use these steps:

1. Make sure you have R and RStudio installed.

2. Identify the sessions you are attending from the list above, and follow the link to the relevant repository.

3. Click the ‘Clone or Download’ button and select ‘Download zip file’:

4. Once the file has downloaded, unzip it, and open the ‘.Rproj’ file.

For workshop leaders:

Please commit you workshop material to a GitHub repository by 30/10/2019. This will allow us time to make sure your material is available on RStudio cloud. Please email a link to your repository, and a list of the required R packages, to nhsrconfspeakers@gmail.com.

If you are using healthcare related datasets as examples, please consider adding them to the NHSRdatasets package. The data can then be reused by other to learn R or when running training. You can find the package at: https://github.com/nhs-r-community/NHSRdatasets

Please note that the ‘Conference_2019’ project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.