KIND network update
Week beginning Mon 17th February 2025
Dear colleagues,
Welcome to the regular KIND network update. Again, lots of training sessions underway this week. Please see our training mini-site for full details and resources.
Hope to see you at something soon
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:
- Applied for a promoted post and have been selected for interview - even if I am not the successful candidate - applying for a new role is way outside my comfort zone, so being shortlisted feels like a huge win.
- I received good feedback from a senior manager on a dashboard I worked hard on.
- Led a session on measurement and developing measurement plans and it was well received! Fells like a big win :-)
- Managed to fix number and percentage formats on a monthly spreadsheet following learning at this weeks Excel session, straight forward when you know how it works :)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scope of the possible with Power BI | 09:30-10:30 Tue 18th February 2025 | Power BI | 💼: non-technical |
| Excel formulas | 11:00-12:00 Tue 18th February 2025 | Excel | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| R from scratch (session 4) | 14:00-15:00 Tue 18th February 2025 | R | 🌶 :beginner-level |
| Intermediate Power BI (session 2) | 10:00-12:00 Wed 19th February 2025 | Power BI | 🌶🌶: intermediate-level |
| Excel foundations 1 | 13:00-14:30 Wed 19th February 2025 | Excel | 🌶🌶: intermediate-level |
| Intermediate Shiny (session 1) | 10:00-12:00 Thu 20th February 2025 | Shiny | 🌶🌶: intermediate-level |
Events
3.30-4.30pm, Wed 19th February 2025. The KIND community meetup is our regular social learning event. Next week, the presenter will be Deborah Calvin (NHS Lothian), discussing Getting started with MongoDB/noSQL, which is a way of efficiently sharing data in R. Click the link to register, and hope to see you there.
we’re running our R beginner’s club next week 3-4pm, Thursday 13th Feb. That’s some social time for beginners to review their code, get unstuck, and pick up some tips and tricks. Please follow this link to join us.
Book of the week
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