Chris Archives: All Blog Posts

2025

Ai in data science job applications

2025-04-11

Valuing thought

2025-03-14

2024

Application form advice

2024-10-14

Job Questions

2024-08-12

Strategy

2024-06-18

Decisions Decisions

2024-05-12

New Job New Blog

2024-03-25

2023

Data science panel questions

2023-02-14

2022

RAP; a 10 year journey

2022-08-23

Data science for dummies (Goldacre)

2022-06-23

We need more than "black box"; systems (Goldacre)

2022-06-16

The prevalence of code sharing (Goldacre)

2022-05-29

The Goldacre review- greatest hits

2022-05-22

In defence of the ordinary

2022-01-10

2021

In defence of looking at jobs

2021-12-22

In defence of holiday working

2021-12-16

In defence of eating

2021-11-24

In defence of dashboards

2021-11-16

Make statistics sexy

2021-11-13

Data saves lives- and so does open code

2021-09-17

Pay and reward

2021-08-19

Graphs > tables

2021-07-19

Stop punishing people with data

2021-07-18

Shoddy data

2021-07-14

Managing data science teams in the trenches

2021-06-01

What do we want from senior analysts in the NHS?

2021-05-31

SQL versus analytic tools

2021-03-26

Building generic Shiny applications with a data module

2021-02-18

Accessing plot characteristics in Shiny modules

2021-01-29

2020

Serving RStudio Connect content to logged in and anonymous users

2020-10-19

Analyst, analyse thyself

2020-10-02

Shiny modules for beginners

2020-08-05

Getting started in data science for healthcare

2020-07-13

RStudio Connect behind the firewall

2020-06-10

RStudio Connect in the cloud

2020-06-10

Productionising R at Nottinghamshire Healthcare

2020-05-26

app.R and global.R

2020-04-03

Data science for human beings

2020-03-27

NHS data science and software licensing

2020-03-23

The Great Survey Munge

2020-03-04

Rapidly find the mean of survey questions

2020-02-25

Converting words on a survey dataset to numbers for analysis

2020-02-18

Decade round up post

2020-01-19

2019

My superpower (a talk I gave about being ill)

2019-12-16

NHS-R conference

2019-12-08

Authenticating using LDAP from Active Directory using Shiny Server Pro

2019-11-06

Add label to shinydashboard

2019-10-31

The analysts' manifesto

2019-08-08

Python, working together, and productionising code at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

2019-07-02

A note for Kindle readers of my Shiny book

2019-05-25

The future of patient experience data at Nottinghamshire Healthcare

2019-04-05

Adding line returns in RMarkdown in a loop

2019-03-31

Producing RMarkdown reports with Plumber

2019-03-19

Suppress console output with ggplot, purrr, and RMarkdown

2019-03-17

A world of #plotthedots and what else?

2019-03-03

Citing R packages in RMarkdown

2019-02-17

Dplyr function to replace nested ifelse (like SQL CASE WHEN)

2019-02-03

Data science accelerator lesson one- build a pipeline and ship the code!

2019-01-20

New Year’s post

2019-01-08

2018

A tidy text talk and some stuff from my Shiny book

2018-11-16

Drawing stacked barcharts the tidyverse way

2018-11-13

Produce tables in loop

2018-10-16

The shinyverse

2018-10-02

Filling in non missing elements by row (Survey Monkey masterclass)

2018-10-02

In praise of awkward questions

2018-09-18

Jupyter, Python, interactive web frameworks, and more

2018-09-03

Producing several plots at once with RMarkdown and purrr

2018-08-17

Shiny Pro in a Windows/ NHS environment, part 1: The curse of Kerberos

2018-07-12

Passing strings as variables from a Shiny app into dplyr

2018-06-13

Selectively hide text with JavaScript in RMarkdown

2018-05-29

Recoding to NA with dplyr

2018-05-15

Checking memory usage in R

2018-05-01

Convert icons to different colours

2018-04-17

Securing Shiny Server over SSL with Apache on Ubuntu

2018-03-22

Scraping the RStudio webinar list

2018-03-08

One weird trick to getting column types right with read_csv

2018-02-22

Analysing runs from the Polar web flow service

2018-02-09

New Year blog post

2018-01-26

Gathering data (wide to long) in the tidyverse

2018-01-22

2017

Failure to produce pdf with RMarkdown tidyverse

2017-12-20

Font size of code in .Rpres presentations

2017-12-08

Better Git commit messages

2017-11-21

Ellen Townsend: Small talk saves lives — IMH Blog (Nottingham)

2017-11-17

Filtering data straight into a plot with tidyverse

2017-09-15

One editor to rule them all- Atom

2017-07-02

Lazy tables with R and pander

2017-05-23

Quarters and modulo arithmetic

2017-04-21

Consuming REST APIs with PHP and CURL

2017-04-20

Converting a grouped plyr::ddply() to dplyr

2017-04-13

Munging Patient Opinion data with R

2017-03-10

Querying the Patient Opinion API from R

2017-03-10

Concatenating text nicely with commas and “and”s

2017-01-12

2016

Working as a coder at a technology company versus working as a coder in other contexts

2016-10-05

Open document formats and why we need them

2016-06-01

Backing up a remote MySQL database on a remote server using cron

2016-04-01

Make your own HTML tables in R

2016-01-13

2015

G++ error compiling on R

2015-11-18

Sharing files from host machine on virtualbox

2015-09-30

Single file Shiny app to take GET parameters and return date range input boxes

2015-09-17

Producing headings in Word files programmatically using knitr

2015-09-01

Digikam crashes on startup

2015-08-31

Convert pdf to text on Ubuntu

2015-06-12

Five tips for five years

2015-06-05

Don't apologise- it's just feedback

2015-06-05

Downloading Lucida Console on Ubuntu

2015-05-22

Primum non nocere- gathering feedback data in the NHS

2015-01-31

2014

I did it! I edited some open sourced code!

2014-12-23

All hail the mighty Cron- setting up cron jobs and a mail server to collect their output logs

2014-10-24

Querying Google analytics data with R

2014-09-09

Book review: PHP Cookbook by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg

2014-08-13

Shiny server working on Windows based virtual machine

2014-05-08

Boss of year of code can’t code- do we all need to be able to code?

2014-02-10

2013

Pick up a copy of my book or another ebook for $5 #Packt$5 #ebookbonanza

2013-12-23

Clearly Better For Analytics and Graphics (My LondonR talk- Developing with Shiny for the Web)

2013-12-04

Free and open source software. Come for the free, stay for the awesome

2013-11-08

Quick p-values for publication

2013-10-24

Citrix on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-08-11

What’s up with chrisbeeley.net?

2013-08-02

Department for redundancy department results of staff survey questionnaire

2013-06-28

Survivorship Bias

2013-05-28

What does your maternity leave look like?

2013-04-14

All Information is Actionable

2013-04-14

Data in the NHS

2013-03-20

Unstable net promoter scores

2013-02-08

2012

Bottom-up creation of data-driven capabilities: show don’t tell

2012-12-07

Shiny app running at last

2012-12-02

But I do want to be data (cross posted)

2012-09-17

Super easy heatmaps of postcodes

2012-07-25

Easy tables for publication

2012-07-08

A joke about R

2012-05-07

R-Uni (A List of Free R Tutorials and Resources in University webpages)

2012-04-26

Great analogue visualisation

2012-04-11

Parallelising with R

2012-04-07

Quick R tip- making scripts work across OS’s

2012-04-05

Dr John Milton – Your days are numbered: Measuring clinical performance in mental health

2012-04-02

Excellent post about R base graphics

2012-03-24

Because it’s Friday- animated graphs

2012-03-09

Visualization series: Insight from Cleveland and Tufte on plotting numeric data by groups

2012-03-05

Amazing video- Inventing on principle

2012-02-20

Stupidest pie chart of the year 2011

2012-01-02

New Year’s resolutions

2012-01-01

2011

Complex surveys in R

2011-12-29

Quick presentations

2011-11-16

Simulating data

2011-10-03

Robin Hood marathon results

2011-09-12

Misleading means and medians

2011-09-01

useR day four and beginner’s odfWeave

2011-08-20

useR day three

2011-08-17

Day 2 of useR

2011-08-16

useR conference update

2011-08-15

How do interest rates affect the way my mortgage is paid off?

2011-08-10

New book- The visual display of quantitative information

2011-08-03

Fun with Wordclouds

2011-08-02

The Patient Survey: Past, Present and Future

2011-08-01

Welcome to the Blog

2011-08-01