useful resources and links

A list of links and resources

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A very opinionated, but short list of things that you should read.

• Learn markdown in 60 seconds

Recommended

• Check out Jupyter notebooks for R
• Tidying data in R: https://ramnathv.github.io/pycon2014-r/explore/summarize.html
• http://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/services/research-it/training

Alternative basic R courses

Alternatives to ours!

• http://eriqande.github.io/rep-res-web/syllabus.html
• https://www.youtube.com/user/theLearnR?sub_confirmation=1
• http://www.datacarpentry.org/
• http://walkingrandomly.com/?p=5981

General unsorted links

• http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.pdf Nice overview of "Tidy Data"
• http://tutorials.iq.harvard.edu/ (Harvard R and Python workshops)
• https://www.coursera.org/course/rprog
• https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-git
• http://andrewgelman.com/2015/10/02/syllabus-for-my-course-on-communicating-data-and-statistics/
• http://www.walkingrandomly.com/?p=5877
• https://www.coursera.org/learn/biostatistics
• http://www.niaa.org.uk/
• http://software-carpentry.org/
• http://apawlik.github.io/2014-11-27-elixiruk-manchester/
• https://github.com/donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks
• https://www.datacamp.com/courses/data-table-data-manipulation-r-tutorial
• http://www.statmethods.net/about/books.html

Papers of interest

• Predicting fluid requirements in ITU

Datasets for use

General data

• Awesome public datasets
• HIC data (UCLH specific)
• (SPOT)light data
• MIMIC data
• HSCIC indicator portal (https://indicators.ic.nhs.uk/webview/): a large number of openly published NHS outcomes data

Data that might be used but will need specific permissions

• PERTicus data at UCLH
• Obstetrics data

R packages

• https://github.com/qinwf/awesome-R
• https://github.com/ropensci/testdat
• http://www.onthelambda.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/assertr.html