November 2020 meeting: health data science and workflows/pipelines

Hi everyone!

Our November session will be on 25th, so join us from 5.30pm online. As usual, the meeting will be open for all to attend, and newcomers / beginners are very welcome.

Our online meetings are kindly being enabled by Red Hat (https://www.redhat.com/).

Our speakers are Riinu Pius and Mike Spencer.

• Riinu Pius (https://www.riinu.me/) is a data scientist at the Centre for Medical Informatics, The University of Edinburgh. She's the author of the brand new "R for Health Data Science" book written with Ewen Harrison.
• Mike Spencer (http://mikerspencer.com) is a data specialist at the Scottish Social Services Council and also provides independent data science consultancy.

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## R for Health Data Science: from clinicians who code to Shiny interventions

### Riinu Pius

In her talk she will walk you through cool and innovative ways R can be used to facilitate health research, from clinical trials to global cohort studies. The talk includes practical tips and code examples.