HighlandR

backed by data

Minimising risk of delayed departure

Posted on April 2, 2018

This post is an attempt to answer this question: https://community.rstudio.com/t/how-to-answer-a-question-without-statistical-tests-but-is-backed-by-data/3711 It was a pretty interesting question, and I had an initial stab at providing an answer, but the charts I submitted were not the best looking, shall we say ( it was a late night rush job). So, I’m going... [Read More]

No strings attached

a faceting function with bare variable names in ggplot2

Posted on March 4, 2018

I’m working on a package of dplyr and ggplot2 functions that I can use on a day to day basis to plot data over time. I’ve done some basic experimenting with my preferred ggplot2 theme settings (highlandrthemes - it’s a thing), and the next stage is to get some commonly... [Read More]

Theory free tidyeval

Getting our feet wet with dplyr programming

Posted on February 19, 2018

I’ve been putting off trying to suss out dplyr’s tidy evaluation for a long time, but I’ve been experimenting a bit with it so just making some notes here. It’s hard to talk about tidy evaluation / Non Standard Evaluation without getting into a whole load of theory, but I’m... [Read More]

Enter Sa(n)dMan

Posted on February 3, 2018

Yet more Metalliplots I’m just going to tidy up some issues from my last post where I did some tidytext analysis on the legendary rockers - Metallica. It was a fun way to pass some time and keep my hand in with text mining, something I still don’t seem... [Read More]

Hardwired..for tidy text

Posted on January 30, 2018

Song lyric and sentiment analysis for all So - a while back I did a tidy text analysis on Faith No More lyrics. I had thought about doing this with Metallica album lyrics, as they have had a long career, spanning their late teens/twenties to their 50’s. However,... [Read More]

Data Driven DIY

Hardwired...to Shelf Construct

Posted on January 20, 2018

Which fixing should I buy? I have a bathroom cabinet to put up. It needs to go onto a tiled plasterboard (drywall) wall. Because of the tiles, I can’t use the fixings I normally use to keep heavy objects fixed to the wall. And bog standard rawlplugs aren’t going... [Read More]

Time To Shine

Blogging and social media for introverts

Posted on December 30, 2017

How to spot an introvert You may have seen David Robinson’s recent post encouraging R users to start blogging. Some folk will willingly act on this advice, and others won’t. For those that won’t, I know who you are. You. Yes, you, trying to hide at the back.... [Read More]

Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow......

Animating dot plots to demonstrate patient flow

Posted on December 21, 2017

Dots.. This is not the blog post I’d originally intended to write. But I’m glad - because this one is so much better. Some background. I’m one of the few Scotland based members of AphA - the Association of Professional Healthcare Analysts. They’ve had a couple of events... [Read More]

A teeny tiny Twitter tale

Use of social media within the NHS to raise awareness of dangerous conditions

Posted on November 6, 2017

We had an event at work today, bringing together clinicians and QI staff across a range of disciplines and services to provide some education and raise awareness of work that is being undertaken to recognise and treat Sepsis. We tried to encourage folk to tweet, using the hashtag “#nhshsepsis”... [Read More]

It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it..

A tidytext analysis of Faith No More lyrics

Posted on October 29, 2017

Is this a midlife crisis? I wanted to ease myself back into text mining, specifically using the tidytext package as I haven’t had to do any at work for well over a year. I’ve been thinking about some of the old bands of the 90’s, some of whom... [Read More]