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}