CDU Data Science Roadmap and a summary of the topics discussed in this month’s meeting.
The video of the presentation by Chris Beeley is viewable in on the Trust’s Microsoft Stream site: https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/41df2da8-eac3-4391-8e0c-a4ef0a853688?list=studio (will require an authorised log in).
More information on the team and what we do was presented by Milan Wiedemann. Slides are here.
Training was something we hadn’t considered but came up as a theme. Analysts main software tools are Excel, PowerBI, SQL and R.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust allows all staff to access R and R Studio for download through the Software Centre (accessible through the Windows Start button).
Training is offered through NHS-R Community every month. The course is led by Zoë Turner. Course materials are available here.
Shiny training is being offered through NHS-R Community and is being designed and led by Chris Beeley. Course materials are available here and specifically for beginners.
Help for R can be sought from the Slack channel nhsrcommunity.slack.com. Also note that there is a Government Data Science Slack channel govdatascience.slack.com but access to this is restricted to certain email addresses like nhs.net and not individual Trust accounts.
Another general interest that came from the group was mapping data and tools used for this are often QGIS. This is also available through the Software Centre but specific access may be required through IT.
There are a couple of Public Health mapping tools that are available and more information can be found here.
Some individual pieces of work have come out of the Understanding your data meeting and have moved into the data clinic initiative discussed more here
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Patient Feedback (including Care Opinion information) can be found here.