Asif Laldin was the main developer of this package, but I contributed a few functions and offered overall package development advice. This is a great effort and is crammed full of functions for working with population health datasets, standardised rates, standard visuals, etc. It contains a smorgasbord of delightful functions ...

The NHS-R Virtual Conference concluded this week and we have had a number of excellent speakers from the Health & Social Care sector, alongside working with key partners of interest. It kicked off with a full day jammed packed of speakers from all over the NHS. The second day we had ...

People have been telling me not to teach caret anymore, albeit I do teach TidyModels as well. Their argument is that TidyModels is new and shiny and we should be using the most up to date tools. I get this justification, but is caret really dead? My answer is “not ...

I have put together a complete guide to model training, docker file creation and then consuming your API in R. This has arisen as part of a workshop the NHS-R community are doing around R in Production: show and tell, but instead of just making it local, I thought I ...

The conference will be held virtually and will kick-off : Monday 8th of November – Wednesday 10th November Featuring: Main Conference Events. This will include more workshops, lightning talks and plenary sessions. And the week before we will have lots of hands-on workshops: Monday 1st November – Friday 5th November Series of workshops ...

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In my dusty GitHub repository, sitting there, was a gem of a tool for tidying the outputs of a machine learning classification model into a record and row-level view for storage in databases. It has taken me time to get this to CRAN, as the dreaded closure, not subsettable, plagues ...

The motivation for this package is simple, while there are many packages that do similar things, few of them perform automated removal of the features from your models. This was the motivation, plus having them all in one location to enable you to easily find them, otherwise you would be ...

I have recently just pushed my fourth package to CRAN, I will do a separate post on this, but the FeatureTerminatoR package has been built to perform automated feature selection, utilising methods such as recursive partitioning, multicollinearity purging and other types will be built into the second version. Installing the ...

I am so excited that my package OddsPlotty has landed on CRAN. This was a package I worked on when I was doing lots of multiple comparisons of logistic regression models and wanted a way to visualise the odds ratios on a graph i.e. an odds plot. This package ...

Do you program in R and normally use DPLYR for data wrangling, manipulation or whatever term you call it? Have you heard all the hype about data.table and how this package can significantly improve the performance run time of your R scripts? Have you been meaning to get round ...

These set of tutorial arose through my desire to use as many machine learning packages as possible. My favourites still remain tensorflow, caret, sci-kit learn and now TidyModels. Why TidyModels? Instead of replacing the modelling package, tidymodels replaces the interface. Better said, tidymodels provides a single set of functions and ...

I have been busy learning Docker, as it was one of those things I have been putting off for a while. But, I am so glad that I did. Essentially, I have gone through all the pain so you don’t have to. Building the ML Model and creating API ...

The NHSDataDictionaRy package is now back on CRAN, and I am pleased as punch. This update contains the OpenSafely scraper to get data from the website for lookups developed by Ben Goldacre’s team. Why did it disappear? The package disappeared due to me taking it down for major script ...

The NHS-R community commissioned a package at the start of the year to address the need to pull lookups real time from the NHS Data Dictionary website. I thought this would be a good package, but what I have included, in addition, is the ability to scrape tables and text ...

The ConfusionTableR package has a new function. Welcome to var_impeR which takes a trained caret R model and produces a tibble and a supporting variable importance plot. How to use the new var_impeR function The code following shows how to use the new function: Training a CARET model ...