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Thought Pieces, Discussions and Interests

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  Data Science Internships - Experience and Tips

  Mulitple

  A couple of our PhD Data Science Interns share their experience of partaking in the scheme and suggests some tips for others applying in the future

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  NHS Language Corpus - Discovery

  Dan Schofield

  Description of a short discovery project exploring building a language corpus with a focus on the NHS

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  Privacy through Motivated Attacks - Synthetic Adversarial Suite

  Jonny Pearson

  Highlighting Model Class Reliance as a tool for variable importance in predictive models

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  Generating Patient Pathways - SynPath

  Jonny Pearson

  Brief overview of an exploration into building the foundations of a generalised patient pathway simulator

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  Generating tabular data - SynthVAE

  Dom Danks and Jonny Pearson

  To investigate appropriate methods for generating synthetic data for healthcare we have developed a variational autoencoder to generate tabular data

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  Model Class Reliance

  DART

  Highlighting Model Class Reliance as a tool for variable importance in predictive models

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  Open Source Tool Requests

  DART

  Description of the considerations and recommended process for requesting open source tools in the NHS

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  Sharing Code in the Open

  Jonny Pearson

  Summarising a range of advice and recommendations alongside evidence of the mandate for sharing code in the open.

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  Understanding of online consultation activity through OpenSAFELY

  Martina Fonseca

  This post covers the exploration done around the roll-out of online consultation systems and its coding activity in primary care records, via OpenSAFELY. It includes key learnings and outputs.

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  Azure Data Engineering Principles

  Craig Shenton & Mattia Ficarelli

  In this post, we aim to set out the data engineering principles we have developed in designing and building our Azure cloud-analytics infrastructure.

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  Synthetic Data in Healthcare

  Jonny Pearson

  This thought stream is focussed on the application of synthetic data in healthcare and targeted at analysts in the NHS considering if, and how to implement a synthetic data generation tool.

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  Experiences of Accessing Open Source Tools in the NHS

  DART

  Capturing some of the key points raised during interviews with NHS analysts regarding their experience of using open source software in the NHS

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  OpenSafely and NHSX - Learning from our first collaboration

  Jonny Pearson

  This blog highlights learnings from onboarding NHSX data scientists into the OpenSafely framework (covering work from Oct-20 till Jan-21)