2021 to now
Skills, experience and talks
A non-exhaustive list of things I'm good at, and where I've applied them.
Skills
Analysis
Reporting
Data engineering
Working with people
My time in the NHS
2019 to 2021
Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2015 to 2019
Data Manager
2014 to 2015
Data Analyst, Quality Improvement
2010 to 2013
Clinical Governance Facilitator
2008 to 2010
Project Support Officer
Talks
Occasionally I get invited to give talks or run workshops at conferences. Sometimes I feel brave enough to submit a presentation for a talk. Regardless of how it happens, it always means nerves, and telling myself afterwards I'm never doing it again. Here are all the times I did it again.
2017
2018
An introduction to R
A demonstration of R, featuring a run-through of importing, cleaning and plotting data from Excel. We presented it 4 times on the day, and it led to us delivering our workshop at the NHS-R event in Birmingham later the same year.
2018
Hands-on R workshop
A day of practical R for NHS analysts: importing data from Excel and SQL Server, wrangling it with dplyr, producing static and animated plots, and automatically exporting them to PowerPoint. Resources were shared ahead of time so some attendees followed along, others simply sat back and waited for my ill-advised attempts at live coding to backfire.
2020
Rapid analysis and presentation of Quality Improvement data with R
Lightning talk demonstrating runcharter and spccharter.
2020
My data.table hat trick
Lightning talk on runcharter, patientcounter and spccharter, three packages that rely heavily on the wonderful data.table package.
2022
Dynamic SQL from R, into Shiny
Looping over a remote database using dynamic SQL from R, and visualising the query results in a Shiny dashboard.
2023
An introduction to checks and tests
A gentle introduction to thinking about checking and testing your R code, with some example use of the minimalist checkmate and tinytest packages, so you can experience the benefits of testing without having to write loads more code.