NHS-R Newscast 24th February 2023

We discussed the upcoming HACA and NHS-R conferences and the type of paper you might take to each. HACA is focused on analytics that enhance decision quality and inform action and strategic change. NHS-R is more focused on writing code with open source tools, packages and tools, RAP, and all the other stuff readers of the NHS-R blog know and love.

HACA: https://uobevents.eventsair.com/haca-2023/

We talked about dplyr 1.1.0 dplyr 1.1.0: `pick()`, `reframe()`, and `arrange()` https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/02/dplyr-1-1-0-pick-reframe-arrange/

dplyr 1.1.0: Joins https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2023/01/dplyr-1-1-0-joins/

There is also more on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LAML4Nr1II

We discussed a recent Slack thread looking at mutate_all and described how you can future proof your code by looking at things like lifecycle badges https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html 

"Code archaeology" next with a look at aes_string https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/aes_.html

We discussed the Government Data Science Community and all the ways to hear more and get involved- Slack, meetups and a newsletter https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/communities/data-science-community

Applications to data science accelerator are closed but it will return, so keep an eye out for it https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/data-science-accelerator-programme/introduction-to-the-data-science-accelerator-programme

We also discussed the graduate programme which is open to applications https://datasciencecampus.ons.gov.uk/long-read/data-science-graduate-programme/