KIND network update
Week beginning Mon 27th January 2025
Dear colleagues,
Welcome to our regular weekly update. Last week we launched a new puzzle of the week segment, with a simple-ish technical puzzle about extracting dates from text. Please keep an eye out for next week’s challenge, which will be about recognising and standardising abbreviations.
Brendan
Wins of The Week
In the spirit of #IAmRemarkable, we do a weekly wins of the week thread to celebrate the professional (and personal) achievements of the community:
- Managed to run a dashboard without activating a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” event
- Been accepted to start a PGCert next week. All hail being a student again!
- I completed a really complicated report using GIS as well as R syntax. Requester was very happy with the result.
- Crafted some custom functions to solve the puzzle of the week every day
Well done all, and looking forward to hearing your wins of the week in future.
Training sessions
Please note that we’ve changed the way that our training events are set-up. You should now be able to click the session link to add yourself directly to the session.
| Session | Date | Area | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| References and names in Excel | 11:00-12:00 Tue 28th January 2025 | Excel | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| R from scratch (session 1) | 14:00-15:00 Tue 28th January 2025 | R | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| BI for beginners (session 3) | 10:00-12:00 Wed 29th January 2025 | Power BI | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| BI for beginners (service version, session 3) | 12:00-14:00 Wed 29th January 2025 | Power BI | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| Introductory Shiny (session 3) | 14:00-16:00 Wed 29th January 2025 | Shiny | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| Tableau for beginners (session 3) | 10:00-12:00 Thu 30th January 2025 | Tableau | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| Intro to predictive models in R | 13:00-14:30 Thu 30th January 2025 | R | 🌶 :beginner-level |
Events
1-2pm, Tue 28th January 2025. The Scottish Community of Data Analysts is a community of practice for those working with data in territorial NHS Boards. Next week, the presenter will be Nora Villamil Buenrostro - Factors impacting on efficient operation of a Day Surgery Unit.25th 01 2815 30.00. The KIND community meetup is our regular social learning event. Next week, the presenter will be Richard Hassett (NHS GGC) - R medication adherence.
Book of the week
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