Conferences Special

A mid-month special update

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RPySOC 2024 21-22 November 2024 (online and in person at Birmingham ICC)

Day one has sold out! Day two has a few tickets left.

We are keeping a waiting list and although we won’t be able to increase the numbers because of the event’s health and safety it’s highly likely that some people’s plans will change given the conference is a few months ahead.

It can also give us a better idea of numbers for any conference next year so please do sign up to be counted.

Abstracts are still open - details and links to submit are through the NHS-R Way book.

NHS-R Community {postcard}

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In preparation for HACA (see the next section) we will have a stand for NHS-R Community and whilst we want to promote our activities we didn’t want to create more waste with printed materials so we have an electronic postcard made with the {postcards} package. We will have printed A4 pages with QR codes to the site and these can be recycled when we’ve finished.

All the code, including the QR code to the site, is on GitHub.

{postcard} is a really quick and easy way to produce something to “introduce yourself” and the idea came from the 2021 RStudio (now Posit) conference workshop which featured ways to build blogs in {distill} and Hugo as well as {postcards}. These may have been superseded by Quarto websites but the materials are still a great resource, particularly if you use RMarkdown.

HACA 23-24 July 2024 (online and in person at Telford International Centre)

NHS-R Community volunteers, along with NHS.Pycom and NHS England RAP champions, will be at the free HACA conference with a few workshops on the first day. These are in person only and you can just turn up, no need to sign up.

Come along to any of our sessions, to learn, solve problems, and see where these tools are already in use.

• Learn Python or R in 1 hour: - parallel sessions at 11:45

  • Learn the basics of Python or R: how to bring data in, manipulate it, and use it for essential tasks.

  • Bring a charged laptop, no prior software needed, and pick up the essentials and let’s demystify these tools.

• Python and R Clinic: - parallel session at 14:15

  • Bring your R and Python problems to be solved by NHS Py.com and NHS-R community members

  • Do you have problems getting R or Python through your IT services?  Do you wonder about how to develop and train yourself or team?  Have you got a code problem to solve?

• ‘RAP’ Clinic work: – parallel session at 14:15

  • Build your own RAP process, or work on and improve your current process with RAP experts.

  • Please bring an idea or process from your work to this session.

• R and Python showcase: - 16:00

  • See how colleagues are already using R and Python in the NHS, saving time, building skills and sharing code openly.

  • Learn from colleagues who are already using these tools for automating presentations and board packs, SPC, forecasting, auto-emails, text analytics, and replacing legacy tools like SAS.

As with any in person workshop event, bring a charged laptop!

These workshops won’t require any pre-installed software but if you want to get something set up beforehand the chapter on R in the Statement on Tools book can help with finding the software required or can be passed to your IT team to help them understand the request for “R”.

Coffee and Coding

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Join us for the Friday after HACA on 26th July 11-12pm. Sign up and receive your meeting invitation and meeting link via https://events.nhsrcommunity.com/coffee-and-code/.