Talking

Selected appearances. Presentations made with Quarto or {xaringan}.

Title Where When Description Links
GitHub as a team sport (lightning version) NHS-RPySOC Conference, Birmingham Nov 2024 Sharing how our data science team uses GitHub to work together
Large Language Models (LLMs): is this AI? ‘What is AI?’ workshop, The Strategy Unit, remote Oct 2024 Introduction and discussion about LLMs as ‘artificial intelligence’ and their potential role in healthcare
Using R and Python to model future hospital activity EARL 2024 Conference, Brighton Sep 2024 How our NHS team uses R and Python to model future hospital activity as part of the New Hospital Programme demand and capacity model (co-presented with YiWen Hon)
GitHub as a team sport QA Month, Department for Transport, remote May 2024 Sharing how our data science team uses GitHub to help improve and maintain quality
Store Data Safely Coffee & Coding, The Strategy Unit, remote May 2024 Storing and fetching data using {pins} and Azure Data Storage (co-presented with YiWen Hon)
NHS-R Podcast, 1st December NHS-R podcast, remote Dec 2023 Discussion about coding for fun, Reproducible Analytical Pipelines and working as a data scientist in the NHS
Base slaps! NHS-R Conference, Birmingham Oct 2023 Base R is good for stability, minimising dependencies and is ‘modern’, actually
Panic! In The Toolshed Cross-Government Data Science Community Meetup, remote Jun 2023 Public sector workers should share the tools that they make
Fun and Learning. In a Dungeon! Home Office Data Science Conference, London Mar 2023 Learning to code is easier if it’s fun
Create reproducible and accessible spreadsheets with {a11ytables} NHS-R Webinar, remote Jan 2023 Generate best-practice spreadsheets with help from the {a11ytables} R package (renamed {aftables})
Create reproducible and accessible spreadsheets with {a11ytables} EARL 2022 conference, London Sep 2022 Generate best-practice spreadsheets with help from the {a11ytables} R package (renamed {aftables})
Make a Twitter bot with {rtweet} and GitHub Actions LondonR, London Feb 2022 Use free tools to create a simple automated Twitter bot that tweets on schedule
Hit your reproducibility {targets} UK Government Data Science Festival, remote Sep 2020 Introduction and demo of the {targets} package for workflow reproducibility in R
{drake} for reproducible workflows Bionformatics London Meetup, London Jan 2020 Introduction and demo of the {drake} package for workflow reproducibility in R
Reproducibility in R: three things Data Science Week, Department for Education, London Jan 2020 Advice on making your R projects more reproducible
Easier R packages with {usethis} Coffee & Coding, Cabinet Office, London Nov 2019 How to build an R package from scratch with the {usethis} package
Can {drake} RAP? Coffee & Coding, Ministry of Justice, London Oct 2019 Introduction and demo of the {drake} package for workflows as part of a Reproducible Analytical Pipeline (RAP)
{crosstalk}: Shiny-like without Shiny EARL 2018 conference, London Sep 2018 Intro and demo of the {crosstalk} package to allow HTML widgets to update dynamically without {shiny}