Dr. Daniel Weiand

Consultant Microbiologist

MBChB, FRCPath, MMedEd, RCPathME

Daniel joined Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation as a Consultant Medical Microbiologist in 2015, and has a special interest in nephrology, urology, solid organ transplantation (kidney and pancreas), vascular surgery, Medical education, clinical informatics (#RStats @NHSrCommunity) and quality improvement. Before moving to the North East, Daniel trained in Aberdeen, Sheffield, York, Hull and Leeds. Additional responsibilities include: Associate Clinical Lecturer at Newcastle University; Training Programme Director for Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology and Virology at Health Education England North East (HEENE); Medical Examiner for Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Examiner for the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath); “Q” fellow at The Health Foundation.

@send2dan

https://github.com/send2dan/public/

R is one of the most commonly used languages for data science, together with Python.

It is a powerful, free open source data science and statistics environment, used in industry, academia and major corporations (e.g. Microsoft, Google, Facebook).

It benefits from a worldwide community that freely shares learning and resources, through e.g. GitHub

The Goldacre report actively promotes the use of R in the NHS.

To learn how to code in R:

• NHS-R delivers free-to-NHS-staff online introductory training on R and R Studio. It’s free to register. These courses are really popular and spaces are limited to about 20 per session. Sessions are scheduled once a month. For further information, please contact: [email protected].

• There are also many (!) excellent, free textbooks (e.g. R4DS)

• NHS-R supports a thriving Slack community

To see what colleagues across the NHS are doing with code:

• NHS-R and NHS.pycom run the premier data science conference in the NHS, along with regular skill-based webinars

• The free-to-NHS conference is really of excellent quality, very well organised, and well attended: Book your ticket to avoid disappointment!

• You’re welcome to check out my public GitHub code repository, which includes presentations I’ve delivered (and the code used to deliver them), e.g. an online workshop on the subject of Producing Parameterised Reports using purrr and Quarto; and a plenary talk on the subject of Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance Rates using R and Sharing the Results in the form of Parameterised Reports produced using Quarto on the first day of the in-person conference in Birmingham.

NUTH now actively supports the use of R at scale, and it can be installed on any work PC (simply call IT and ask to be added the “SCCM-R” group)