KIND network update

Week beginning Mon 24th June 2024

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our regular KIND network update. Full details of our events and training can be found on our Teams channel. We’ve been experimenting with including unselected feedback comments on our training resources this week. You can see an example at the head of the Excel first steps session from the 20th June, which has a few sample comments and simple evaluations included. All meta-feedback on the feedback gratefully accepted.

This week is our last call for ideas to go into a minimum standards doc for R-based analysis. That’ll be finalised next week, and will become available as part of our set of SOPs and standards docs. All contributions welcome!

Hope to see you at something soon

Brendan

Training

There’s no need to register for these drop-in training sessions. You should be able to follow the link on the day - although please note you’ll need to join the KIND Teams channel to follow the chat, and to access sample data files etc. You can see all the forthcoming sessions, and a menu of possible training sessions, on the new training micro-site.

Events

• 13.00-14.00 Tue 25th June 2024. SCODAS meeting. Robbie MacAulay (PHS LIST) - Flex Dashboards. The Scottish Community of Data Analysts is a community of practice for those working with data in territorial NHS Boards.
• 13.00-14.00 Wed Wed 26th June 2024. The KIND Community meetup theme this week is CALCULATE() = Power BI’s heart of darkness . All welcome at our regular Wednesday get-together/webinar/tech demo. Full details and joining links via the community meetup channel
• 15.00 - 16.00 Thurs 2024-06-20. The wildly-alliterative monthly multi-modal mentoring meetup is back. Join us to hear more about our mentoring scheme, hear from some of our mentor/mentee pairs about their progress, and hear from prospective mentors about projects they would like to work on. All welcome.

Book of the week

Andrew Gregory. 2001. Harvey’s Heart: The Discovery of Blood Circulation. ISBN 9781840462487, Worldcat link. Last week’s recommendation about agnotology sparked an interesting side-conversation: is this a new phenomenon, or something that’s been around for a long time. One of our members, Andrew Saul from PHS, suggested an interesting example concerning the discovery of blood circulation, where some researchers appeared to try and cloud the waters in order to defend their own pet theory. That brings me to a first, which is a BotW recommendation that comes with a competing interest as it was written by a former colleague of mine. This excellent short account of Harvey’s work in the mid-seventeenth century, culminating in the publication of De Motu Cordis in 1628, takes us through the story of blood circulation, with some thoughtful discussions about the reasons why some researchers appear to us now so keen to mislead. De Motu Cordis was also the oldest book that I know of whose publication was managed to co-incide with the Frankfurt book fair, so that’s another interesting first for the week.

Thanks to a suggestion by Claire Medland (NES), see also our archive page for KIND book of the week.

Resource of the week

I’m amazed and delighted that one of our members (Kenneth Mack, HIS) has begun developing a sharable skills tree for various M365 apps. You can see the discussion and work in progress on the KIND Teams channel. That might also, thanks to another member (Anne-Sophie Hoffmoen, NSS) get some proper professional polish and design, so watch this space. We’re piloting part of the tree in our new series of Excel beginner sessions:

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