Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 13th September 2024.

This was my first full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

• setting up a GPG key
• the differences between a GPG key and an SSH key
• signing commits
• the pros and cons of HTTP and SSH for communicating with a …

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I gave a talk today at the NHS-R conference. It was called Less neat, less tidy, and more unpredictable: Improving your code with property-based tests.

Abstract

As conscientious data scientists, we know that it’s good practice to write unit tests to check that our code is working correctly …

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I gave a talk today at the NHS-R conference. It was called Code Reuse in a Trusted Research Environment: Reusable Actions in OpenSAFELY.

Abstract

OpenSAFELY is a secure, transparent, open-source software platform for analysis of electronic health records data. It can be deployed to create a Trusted Research Environment …

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I gave a short talk today called A Constellation of Data Visualization Tools: Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair.

The first part of the talk was a brief history of data visualization tools. I described how the ideas in Leland Wilkinson’s The Grammar of Graphics are related to those in ggplot2 …

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