This YouTube playlist collects recordings of hands-on workshops run by the NHS-OA Community, including those run when it was the NHS-R Community. The workshops were delivered live, often as part of the community’s annual conference, and the recordings can be followed at your own pace.
The workshops are mostly in R. They include regular multi-part introductory and intermediate R courses, as well as one-off workshops on topics such as:
- data visualisation with ggplot2 and interactive plotting
- building apps with Shiny
- regression modelling and machine learning with tidymodels
- statistical process control charts and changepoint analysis
- working with databases
- reproducible reporting and automation, including R Markdown, targets and GitHub Actions
- code review and debugging
There is also an introduction to building interactive visualisations in Python with Shiny.
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| Workshop | Year | Details |
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| NHS Open Analytics Workshop: Introduction to R and R Studio - Part 1 & 2 (September 2026) | 2026 | Introduction to R and R Studio with Zoë Turner (Part 1 & 2) Tuesday 15th September 2026 and Wednesday 16th September 2026 Course Description: From ‘Hello World’ to producing a basic report. This introduction takes you from no knowledge of R to teaching you the basics of the R studio environment,… |
| NHS-Open Analytics Workshop: Intermediate R - Part 2 (Wednesday 11th February 2026) | 2026 | Intermediate R with Simon Wellesley-Miller (Part 2) Wednesday 11th February 2026 Course Description: This course is designed to follow on from the Introduction to R and R Studio course, noting that attendees should be familiar with the basics covered in the workshop. Please be advised that this… |
| NHS-Open Analytics Workshop: Intermediate R - Part 1 (Tuesday 10th February 2026) | 2026 | Intermediate R with Simon Wellesley-Miller (Part 1) Tuesday 10th February 2026 Course Description: This course is designed to follow on from the Introduction to R and R Studio course, noting that attendees should be familiar with the basics covered in the workshop. Please be advised that this… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Better, Kinder Code Review | 2025 | Better, Kinder Code Review Wednesday 09th July 2025 With Dr Toby Hodges Content Summary: This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to some good practices and practical tips for code review, exploring how to provide effective, constructive feedback that results in better code, happier… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Introduction to R and R Studio (Day 1 – Tuesday 23rd September 2025) | 2025 | Introduction to R and R Studio with Dr Claire Welsh Tuesday 23rd September 2025 Course Description: From ‘Hello World’ to producing a basic report. This introduction takes you from no knowledge of R to teaching you the basics of the R studio environment, then loading in some data, some common data… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Introduction to R and R Studio (Day 2 – Wednesday 24th September 2025) | 2025 | Introduction to R and R Studio with Dr Claire Welsh Wednesday 24th September 2025 Course Description: From ‘Hello World’ to producing a basic report. This introduction takes you from no knowledge of R to teaching you the basics of the R studio environment, then loading in some data, some common… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Intermediate R (Day 2 - Wednesday 15th October 2025) | 2025 | Intermediate R with Dr Claire Welsh Wednesday 15th October 2025 Course Description: This course is designed to follow on from the Introduction to R and R Studio course, noting that attendees should be familiar with the basics covered in the workshop. Please be advised that this session will go into… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Intermediate R (Day 1 - Tuesday 14th October 2025) | 2025 | Intermediate R with Dr Claire Welsh Tuesday 14th October 2025 Course Description: This course is designed to follow on from the Introduction to R and R Studio course, noting that attendees should be familiar with the basics covered in the workshop. Please be advised that this session will go into… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Intermediate R (Day 1 and Day 2) | 2025 | Intermediate R with Simon Wellesley-Miller Monday 2nd June 2025 and Tuesday 3rd June 2025 Course Description: This course is designed to follow on from the introduction course assuming people are familiar with the basics covered there. We go into more in depth and complex wrangling tasks, explore… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Introduction to R (Day 1 and Day 2) | 2025 | Introduction to R with Simon Wellesley-Miller Monday 12th May 2025 and Tuesday 13th May 2025 Course Description: From ‘Hello World’ to producing a basic report. This introduction takes you from no knowledge of R to teaching you the basics of the R studio environment, then loading in some data, some… |
| Intermediate R with Anya Ferguson Pt 1 | 2024 | This the first part of a recording of an Intermediate R course with Anya Ferguson assisted by Jeremy Selva on 25 June 2024 |
| Intermediate R with Anya Ferguson Pt 2 | 2024 | This is a recording of a Part 2 of an Intermediate R course run by Anya Ferguson with assistance from Jeremy Selva on 26 June 2024 |
| Intermediate R with Simon Wellesley-Miller 14 May 2024 | 2024 | This is a recording of an Intermediate R course presented by Simon Wellesley Miller and co-hosted by Anya Ferguson on 14 May 2924 |
| Introduction to machine learning with {tidymodels} | 2024 | This a recording of a workshop by Nicola Rennie: “Introduction to machine learning with {tidymodels} on 22 May 2024 GitHub repository: |
| Intermediate R with Simon Wellesley Miller | 2024 | Intermediate R with Simon Wellesley Miller One day course 3 April 2024 and Lyn Howard (co-host) GitHub link with the original from Simon |
| Understanding Functions in R | 2024 | This is an introductory-level workshop aimed at analysts who can write R code but who don’t really get what functions are yet. We’ll be turning some repetitive code into functions, and learning: – how to make a function; – what makes functions useful for analysts. I coded for ages before I… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Interactive Visualisations for Beginners in Python with Shiny Apps | 2024 | Interactive Visualisations for Beginners in Python with Shiny Apps Thursday 07th December 2023 with Dr Pawel Orzechowski 10:00am until 12:00pm (UK time) Course Description: Imagine coding an interactive demo and sharing it with the world within minutes. Your data could be displayed as maps or… |
| NHS-R Workshop: GitHub Actions 101 – Test, Build, and Deploy [Wednesday 22nd November 2023] | 2023 | NHS-R Workshop: GitHub Actions 101 – Test, Build, and Deploy with Joseph Wilson and Harriet Sands. |
| NHS-R Workshop - Regression Modelling in R - 24/11/22 | 2022 | Introduction to Regression Modelling Thursday 24th November 2022 Led by Chris Mainey, Deputy Director of Specialist Analytics at North Central London Integrated Care Board Pre-requisites: Some introductory experience with R About the course: This session will focus on how to fit regression models… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Fitting Distributions in R - 25/11/22 | 2022 | Fitting distributions in R Friday 25th November 2022 Led by Dr Sean Manzi, Research Fellow in Applied Healthcare Modelling and Analysis, University of Exeter College of Medicine and Health Pre-requisites: A basic understanding of how to use R About the course: This session will begin by introducing… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Working with databases in R - 23//11/22 | 2022 | Working with databases in R Wednesday 23rd November 2022 Led by Christopher Maronga,m R Programmer, University of Oxford About the course: The first step in any data handling process is loading data into your working tool regardless of the form and media of storage. Relational databases such as… |
| NHS-R Workshop: PHM ExploreR An open source tool for Population Health Management - 24/11/22 | 2022 | PHM ExploreR: An open source tool for Population Health Management Thursday 24th November 2022 Led by Andras Varady, Forensic Cancer Pathway Data Scientist, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG About the course: The workshop will introduce delegates to the PHM ExploreR: a… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Debugging in R - 11/11/22 | 2022 | Debugging in R Friday 11th November 2022 Led by Shannon Pileggi, Data Scientist, The Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials Consortium Pre-requisites: Knowledge of how to write a function in R. About the course: Learning objectives: Review code troubleshooting tips. Discuss debugging functions… |
| NHS-R Conference Workshop: Introduction to Interactive plotting with R – 03/11/22 | 2022 | Introduction to Interactive plotting with R Thursday 3rd November 2022, Led by Annie Yu, Epidemiological Programmer, Hertfordshire County Council Pre-requisites: Some introductory experience with R About the course: The workshop will cover creating interactive graphs using plotly and echarts4r… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Level up your plots! - 04/11/22 | 2022 | Level up your plots: tips and tricks for creating compelling data visualisations in R Friday 4th November 202 Led by Cara Thompson, Freelance Data Consultant - Building Stories with Data Pre-requisites: It would be helpful for participants to have a basic grasp of: - creating a plot with ggplot2 -… |
| Introduction and Prework | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 1) - 02/11/22’, starting at 0:00. |
| Using Projects | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 1) - 02/11/22’, starting at 55:23. |
| Importing Data | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 1) - 02/11/22’, starting at 1:08:00. |
| Introduction to {ggplot2} | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 1) - 02/11/22’, starting at 1:18:00. |
| What does this function do? | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 1) - 02/11/22’, starting at 2:22:00. |
| NHS-R Workshop: Building Websites in R with Distill - 02/11/22 | 2022 | Building Websites in R with Distill Wednesday 2nd November 2022, Led by Jennifer Sloane, PhD Student, UNSW Do you want to learn how to build your own website in R? About the course: In this interactive workshop, we will build a website from scratch in R using the Distill package. Whether you want… |
| Data wrangling with dplyr | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 2) - 03/11/22’, starting at 0:00. |
| Relational Data (joins) | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 2) - 03/11/22’, starting at 1:45:18. |
| RMarkdown | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 2) - 03/11/22’, starting at 2:10:21. |
| Ongoing Learning | 2022 | From the recording ‘NHS-R Workshop: Intro to R and RStudio (Part 2) - 03/11/22’, starting at 2:40:00. |
| NHS-R Conference Workshop: Building a TidyModels model from scratch – 01/11/22 | 2022 | Led by Gary Hutson, Head of Machine Learning, Crisp 1st November 2022 Here we will learn how to build a TidyModels classification model from scratch RPubs document: About the course: The art and science of building a machine model from scratch and then pushing this into production as a consumable… |
| Statistical process control charts with R - Jacob Anhøj, November 2021 | 2022 | Date: Thursday 4th November 2021 Statistical process control charts with R One day Workshop: Masterclass for R programmers Facilitators: Jacob Anhøj, Medical Doctor, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark and Zoë Turner, Senior Information Analyst, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust… |
| Reproducible computation at scale in R with targets, Will Landau, November 2021 | 2022 | Facilitator: Will Landau, Eli Lilly and Company – USA Data science can be slow. A single round of statistical computation can take several minutes, hours, or even days to complete. The targets R package keeps results up to date and reproducible while minimizing the number of expensive tasks that… |
| NHS-R Conference 2021: Intro to R/RStudio - Part 1 | 2022 | Join Zoë Turner, Data Scientist,, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for this NHS-R Workshop - Introduction to R/RStudio Summary: An Introduction to R workshop covering R/RStudio, manipulation of data (dplyr), creating charts (ggplot2) and reports (R Markdown). This is a great… |
| NHS-R Conference 2021: Intro to R/RStudio Workshop - Part 2 | 2022 | Join Zoë Turner, Data Scientist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust for Part 2 of this NHS-R Workshop - Introduction to R/RStudio Summary: An Introduction to R workshop covering R/RStudio, manipulation of data (dplyr), creating charts (ggplot2) and reports (R Markdown). This is a great… |
| NHS-R Introduction to RMarkdown Workshop - November 2021, Hansel Palencia | 2022 | Join Hansel Palencia for the NHS-R Workshop - ‘Introduction to RMarkdown’ |
| Introduction to Machine Learning and Image Processing with R, December 2021 | 2021 | Facilitators: Santosh Kumar and Bruno Petrungaro, The Health Economics Unit Summary: This workshop covers the basics of image processing, classical machine learning with R. Topics in machine learning include an introduction to machine learning, the difference between machine learning and AI,… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Further changepoint analysis techniques –December 2021 | 2021 | Facilitator: Dr Rebecca Killick Associate Professor in the Mathematics & Statistics department at Lancaster University Summary: ‘Further changepoint analysis techniques’ workshop builds upon the introduction to changepoint course and that knowledge will be assumed. We will focus on more advanced… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Introduction to changepoint analysis with R- November 2021 | 2021 | Facilitator: Dr Rebecca Killick Associate Professor in the Mathematics & Statistics department at Lancaster University Summary: This workshop introduces participants to the analysis of changepoint models (also known as time series segmentation or structural changes). The course is aimed at those… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Shiny (Part 2 of 2) - November 2021 | 2021 | Facilitator: Chris Beeley, Senior Data Scientist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Summary: Shiny is an programming framework for R that allows you to build dynamic and interactive dashboards for the web with no knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. It allows R programmers to very… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Regression Modelling, November 2021 | 2021 | Presented by: Chris Mainey, Patient Safety Lead – System Analysis and Delivery, NHS Improvement Pre-requisites: Some introductory experience with R Summary: This session focuses on how to fit regression models in R, the most common form of statistical modelling. Examining the essential theory… |
| NHS-R Workshop: Shiny (Part 1 of 2) November 2021 | 2021 | Facilitator: Chris Beeley, Senior Data Scientist, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Summary: Shiny is an programming framework for R that allows you to build dynamic and interactive dashboards for the web with no knowledge of HTML, CSS, or JavaScript. It allows R programmers to very… |
| NHS-R Workshop - An introduction to ggplot2 | 2021 | Presented by: Eugene Hickey, Lecturer in Physics, Technology University, Dublin This course will be of interest to those who have some experience working with R but have yet to take the plunge to using ggplot. Topics include: The mechanics of ggplot - layers, attributes, and aesthetics Using ggplot… |
| NHS-R workshop - Automating slides using NHS data | 2021 | By Jo McSweeney, Analyst, NHS England and NHS Improvement Using the officeR package to automate PowerPoint slide generation. Do you have slides that you need to repeat for different organisation levels? Are you unable to use the PowerPoint option from the Markdown menu? Using the NHSRdatasets r… |
| Setting up RStudio | 2018 | |
| R Projects | 2018 |
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