HealthyR Notebooks Estonia Day 2

Everybody came back for Day 2 of HealthyR Notebooks in Estonia!

Today focussed on modelling kicking off with linear regression in detail from Riinu – if you understand this you understand the majority of statistical tests!

Factors were introduced by Cameron, which led nicely into logistic regression. By the end of this the whole room was comfortably building regression models as if they had been doing it for years!

Notebooks are a really powerful tool for teaching this sort of material allowing seamless output into PDF and Word format. Some of the delegates commented on how they had struggled with this aspect of R in the past.

After all the intense work it was a great relief to break early for some fantastic team building including stuff like this!

Some even tried there hand at archery and felt pretty smug about their performance 😂

Finally, we are so grateful Julius Juurmaa for all of the organisation. He even started a company to administer the course! Thank you Julius.

HealthyR Notebooks Estonia Day 1

The Surgical Informatics team arrived in beautiful Estonia yesterday.

We are here as part of our Wellcome Trust Open Research Fund grant – “HealthyR Notebooks: Democratising open and reproducible data analysis in resource-poor environments”.

It’s a mouthful, but important! We have adapted our popular HealthyR training course to be easily delivered on small laptop screens allowing state-of-the-art data analysis to be performed using RStudio anywhere by anyone. We’re testing this in Estonia and running it again in Ghana in November.

Also look out for HealthyR the book coming soon.

The setting is fantastic:

The delegates are already amazing at using R, but we’re teaching Tidyverse and Finalfit to bring everyone up to date with all the great new modern packages.

There are threats of pedalo racing later 😳.