Blogs & News
Risk Stratification: Reducing the Risk of Readmission within 30 Days ➜
It was announced under government plans in 2010 that hospitals will face financial penalties if patients are readmitted as an emergency within 30 days of ... Read more ➜
The Clinical Dataset Library – Part of Aridhia’s Metadata Services ➜
There’s a proverb, frequently attributed to Mrs Isabella Beeton, which states “A place for everything and everything in its place” and that is exactly what ... Read more ➜
Analytics Essentials: Improving Your Data Quality ➜
Profiling your Data Why is data quality important? Before starting to do any analysis it is really important to ensure that your data is in good condition ... Read more ➜
Farr Conference 2015 ➜
Alison Bell, Lead Data Scientist This was my fourth time at the Farr Conference (previously the SHIP conference). I look forward to it as it’s always packed ... Read more ➜
We Are in the ‘Age of Diabetes’ ➜
This week Diabetes Scotland released its 2015 State of the Nation report – it’s annual review of diabetes care in Scotland. As always, it makes ... Read more ➜
An Introduction to R Parallelisation Support in AnalytiXagility ➜
Today I’m going to introduce you to the new R parallelisation capability that has been included in the latest version of AnalytiXagility and how we ... Read more ➜
Is Federated Analysis the Way Forward for Genomics? ➜
Last month, four of the world’s leading researchers from within the genomics community published a paper which suggested that “…between 100 million and as many ... Read more ➜
Blockchain and Digital Health – First impressions ➜
Among the many great Edinburgh festivals, the Turing Festival is the most important to the tech start-up scene locally and beyond. This weekend, I attended ... Read more ➜
Beauty in Simplicity – Visualising Large-scale Genomic Data ➜
If you’ve spent any time looking into the visualisation of large-scale genomic data then you’ve probably encountered Circos, a visualisation tool developed for displaying and ... Read more ➜
Investigating Prescribing Data and Costs Using New Mini-apps and ggvis ➜
Following on from last week’s post where I introduced our new mini-apps capability, today I’m going to demonstrate how to create more advanced and interactive ... Read more ➜