Update on my Patient Pathway Analysis work for NHS England RightCare.
Lightweight Excel DND Character Sheet
Last year, after starting an online Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition campaign with friends to get through the lockdown, I made an Excel Character Sheet so that my players could keep track of their in-game character stats and items. Please feel free to use this and share as required: dnd-character-sheetDownload
Data Science Project – Patient Pathway Analysis
This is a short piece on a project I'm developing at NHS England, using Python to analyse patients' inpatient care and determining where a Clinical Commission Group's (CCG) patients are being treated significantly differently to those patients in its peer group CCGs (similar 10 CCGs as determined by NHS Rightcare Methodologies). While not traditional 'data … Continue reading Data Science Project – Patient Pathway Analysis
Quick Steps to Make Effective Data Visualisations
This is an example of the default settings for a bar chart in Excel. This is functional but could be far more effective; here are my main steps I use to create quick, effective data visualisations. Remove chart borders. Show data in a useful order (alphabetically, or ranked, or some other important order). Keep gridlines … Continue reading Quick Steps to Make Effective Data Visualisations
HOW TO… Excel: Create a hierarchical series of drop down boxes
As a result of prodding around the excel subreddit I found a query from user innocuous_gorilla about creating drop downs that are dependent upon each other. Due to working at NHS England where we have a massive array of organisation types and hierarchies, I quickly learnt how to do this! For example, in NHS England … Continue reading HOW TO… Excel: Create a hierarchical series of drop down boxes
HOW TO… VBA: Compare VBA Combo Box Values with Their Lists
Preamble So, a recent issue I’ve had using VBA to create UserForms to handle data input is data validation. Throughout my UserForm I’ve included a variety of Combo Boxes that contain lists of information the user can select. In most instances I would like the user to have inputted exactly one of the options within … Continue reading HOW TO… VBA: Compare VBA Combo Box Values with Their Lists
Starting Back at Work
At the start of the month, I started back with my old team at NHS England working as (you may have already guessed it isn’t clinically based) a data analyst. I’m incredibly pleased to be back as my old job here was my stepping stone into the world of data analytics and Excel. Here I … Continue reading Starting Back at Work
Analytics and Ethics
Upon the enlightening release of the Cambridge Analytica exposé that revealed the company's underhanded tactics it utilises to influence and manipulate people with a combination of data analytics, espionage, and 'honeypotting', I think it's incredibly important to discuss how the analytical community needs to ensure a commitment to honest and unbiased analytics, and ethically sourced … Continue reading Analytics and Ethics
HOW TO… Excel: Create a Dynamic Data Range for a Chart
Continuing the theme of automatically updating charts, we’re going to look at how to make a chart deal with a dynamically changing data range. This is useful for situations where you have multiple measures that each have a different number of independent variables (the variables plotted on our x-axis, which was the month of the … Continue reading HOW TO… Excel: Create a Dynamic Data Range for a Chart
HOW TO… Excel: Create an Automatically Updating Chart
Following on from our last series of HOW TO... Excel, we're going to expand the concepts used to create the dynamic data table and create another sheet for the same workbook that will be the home of an automatically updating chart! Unlike pivot charts, this will be able to update as soon as new data … Continue reading HOW TO… Excel: Create an Automatically Updating Chart
