KIND network update
Week beginning Mon 3rd February 2025
Dear colleagues,
Welcome to an extremely windy KIND network update. Hope you’re keeping safe.
A retrospective notice of an interesting resource: the Knowledge Network produced an excellent Sway full of resources for health information week. Highly recommended.
We’ve also got the first of our 2025 run of community meetup sessions happening next week. That’s kindly been offered by Richard Hassett, a specialist senior prescribing support technician from NHS GGC. He writes:
I have fairly recently been gifted the task of running some R scripting to produce medication adherence visualisations for a number of secondary care consultants working in my health board. It aims to support easy identification of sub-optimal medication adherence and trigger a conversation between clinician and patient…I’d like some help to better understand what it is doing. Through a process of trial and error I can usually resolve but I’m concerned I’m messing things up in the background. Secondly, it seems rather complex and so I wonder if there is scope to simplify or automate more of it…
This should be an excellent session for R-enthusiasts to come together to support an innovative and useful project. Please consider coming along if you can between 3.30-4.30 next Tuesday.
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:
- I was awarded Level 2 Digital Champion!
- Since successfully testing our first ever published PowerBI dashboard last week we’ve added another 4 this week, dramatically reducing the burden of work that would otherwise have gone into producing regular analysis packs.
- Successfully implemented a change in work which included upscaling and altering project methods…without a single complaint from staff
- I was asked to estimate how much data our dataset is missing(!) and was able to devise a methodology that has limited validity but can help to inform the impact it has had on our outputs.
Well done all, and looking forward to hearing your wins of the week in future.
Training sessions
Click the link to book yourself into the session.
| Session | Date | Area | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| R in Power BI | 09:30-10:30 Tue 4th February 2025 | Power BI / R | 🌶🌶: intermediate-level |
| Excel formatting | 11:00-12:00 Tue 4th February 2025 | Excel | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| R from scratch (session 2) | 14:00-15:00 Tue 4th February 2025 | R | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| BI for beginners (session 4) | 10:00-12:00 Wed 5th February 2025 | Power BI | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| BI for beginners (service version, session 4) | 11:30-13:30 Wed 5th February 2025 | Power BI | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| Tableau for beginners (session 4) | 10:00-12:00 Thu 6th February 2025 | Tableau | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| Introductory Shiny (session 4) | 13:00-15:00 Thu 6th February 2025 | Shiny | 🌶 :beginner-level |
Events
- 1-2pm, Tue 4th February 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 Josie Evans, Helen Gadegaard, Sophie Heaton - CARI.
- 3.30-4.30pm, Thu 6th February 2025. The KIND community meetup is our regular social learning event. Next week, the presenter will be Catriona Scott (NHS Lothian) - The pins package.
Book of the week
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