Neil Pettinger
@kurtstat.bsky.social
Healthcare data analyst.
Aspiring Munroist.
Aspiring Munroist.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Guys this is the ONE client you really need to double check
New - Harvey & Wheeler, the estate agents used by Rachel Reeves to rent out her property have apologised for an "oversight" after they did not apply for a licence on her behalf, having offered to do so.
October 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Guys this is the ONE client you really need to double check
My AMU 'heaviness' metric came about after I tried showing AMU lengths of stay so far (ALoSSF) as horizontal timelines on top of each other. On the left: a snapshot that captured 60 patients with an ALoSSF of 24.6 hours. On the right: 58 patients with an ALoSSF of 37.8 hours.
#rstats #ggplot2
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October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I want to have a go at adapting Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model so that it works for how healthcare data messages are communicated. I think the key to this is how I flesh out the meaning structures on each side of the diagram.
October 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I want to have a go at adapting Stuart Hall's encoding/decoding model so that it works for how healthcare data messages are communicated. I think the key to this is how I flesh out the meaning structures on each side of the diagram.
Acute Medical Unit (AMU) 'heaviness' scores are calculated by multiplying each day's AMU mean lengths of stay by the same day's AMU fullness snapshots. The scores are closely correlated with Emergency Department (ED) performance, so I thought a scatterplot would be the way to go.
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#rstats #ggplot2
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tried to sneak a photo of a cute doggo and accidentally had long exposure on and I believe I have created man’s greatest expression of art
I'm working on a diagram that shows how we might incorporate emotion into data visualizations. I'm trying to mash together some ideas from Gavin McMahon's new book (www.story-business.com) with Don Norman's three layers of design (www.interaction-design.org/literature/a...).
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I'm working on a diagram that shows how we might incorporate emotion into data visualizations. I'm trying to mash together some ideas from Gavin McMahon's new book (www.story-business.com) with Don Norman's three layers of design (www.interaction-design.org/literature/a...).
This is a fascinating - and excellent - post by @samfr.bsky.social on his recent experience of being an NHS hospital patient. My heart jumped when I saw bed occupancy mentioned in the article: I have “views” on bed occupancy, so I thought I’d say something about it.
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On the edge
My week in the NHS
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October 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a fascinating - and excellent - post by @samfr.bsky.social on his recent experience of being an NHS hospital patient. My heart jumped when I saw bed occupancy mentioned in the article: I have “views” on bed occupancy, so I thought I’d say something about it.
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Man walking into the Post Office earlier: You look like a person who knows about things.
Person behind the til: I do? Well I know about some things I suppose.
Man (showing him his phone): Good. What do I press to answer this thing?
Person behind the til: I do? Well I know about some things I suppose.
Man (showing him his phone): Good. What do I press to answer this thing?
October 17, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Man walking into the Post Office earlier: You look like a person who knows about things.
Person behind the til: I do? Well I know about some things I suppose.
Man (showing him his phone): Good. What do I press to answer this thing?
Person behind the til: I do? Well I know about some things I suppose.
Man (showing him his phone): Good. What do I press to answer this thing?
I still think of pivot_wider() as magic, basically.
October 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I still think of pivot_wider() as magic, basically.
Indicators of patient flow dysfunction mainly focus on either the hospital front door (e.g. breaches of the four-hour target) or the hospital back door (e.g. delayed transfers of care). But patient flow dysfunction manifests itself *everywhere* in a general hospital.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Indicators of patient flow dysfunction mainly focus on either the hospital front door (e.g. breaches of the four-hour target) or the hospital back door (e.g. delayed transfers of care). But patient flow dysfunction manifests itself *everywhere* in a general hospital.
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I've been using open access data to explore the relationship between Emergency Department 12-hour performance and ambulance turnaround times. Each blue dot is a week between mid-November last year and early September this year. It's a pretty close relationship for this hospital.
September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I've been using open access data to explore the relationship between Emergency Department 12-hour performance and ambulance turnaround times. Each blue dot is a week between mid-November last year and early September this year. It's a pretty close relationship for this hospital.
Just had an email from Microsoft telling me that my 365 subscription is increasing in price by 31%.
September 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just had an email from Microsoft telling me that my 365 subscription is increasing in price by 31%.
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Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).
September 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Please enjoy today, 25/9/2025, the last square date until 2116 (5^2/3^2/45^2).
There’s a great talk by Marc Farr (“I wish I was macho instead of just deep”) that you can view on the Midlands Analyst Network website. It's very thought-provoking. Here are some of my thoughts…
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September 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
There’s a great talk by Marc Farr (“I wish I was macho instead of just deep”) that you can view on the Midlands Analyst Network website. It's very thought-provoking. Here are some of my thoughts…
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American fascist: your going to the camps,
American Liberal, chuckling: ‘you’re’.
"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details! You stamp it into a million pieces!"
Fantastic piece by @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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American Liberal, chuckling: ‘you’re’.
"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details! You stamp it into a million pieces!"
Fantastic piece by @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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What Do We Have To Lose
If Keir Starmer won’t even make a moral case against deporting our friends and neighbours, then what is the point of him? Plus: some natural borders; and the non-existence of grey, and other letters.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
American fascist: your going to the camps,
American Liberal, chuckling: ‘you’re’.
"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details! You stamp it into a million pieces!"
Fantastic piece by @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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American Liberal, chuckling: ‘you’re’.
"You don’t fight the politics of violence by quibbling with the details! You stamp it into a million pieces!"
Fantastic piece by @jonnelledge.bsky.social
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Is there a difference between upper case emphasis and bold-and-underlined emphasis?
September 25, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Is there a difference between upper case emphasis and bold-and-underlined emphasis?
This graffiti on Restalrig Road made me remember that fantastic article by Nicholas Carr ("The Tyranny of Now") in which he wrote about Harold Innis's distinction between 'time-biased' media and 'space-biased' media!
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
This graffiti on Restalrig Road made me remember that fantastic article by Nicholas Carr ("The Tyranny of Now") in which he wrote about Harold Innis's distinction between 'time-biased' media and 'space-biased' media!
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
You don't have to be old to be right wing, but it helps.
Great graph by @owenwntr.bsky.social in @samfr.bsky.social's latest newsletter.
Great graph by @owenwntr.bsky.social in @samfr.bsky.social's latest newsletter.
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
You don't have to be old to be right wing, but it helps.
Great graph by @owenwntr.bsky.social in @samfr.bsky.social's latest newsletter.
Great graph by @owenwntr.bsky.social in @samfr.bsky.social's latest newsletter.
I've just had a quick glance at this book - it looks ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!
I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!
This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!
nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...
#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday
This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!
nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...
#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday
Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie
I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I've just had a quick glance at this book - it looks ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!
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“Why not paintings or sculpture or other persuasive visual images, or persuasion by the written word alone? … A map is different from other forms of communication because it is uniquely presumed to be a source of honest, objective information.” persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/about/
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September 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
“Why not paintings or sculpture or other persuasive visual images, or persuasion by the written word alone? … A map is different from other forms of communication because it is uniquely presumed to be a source of honest, objective information.” persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/about/
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I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.
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"I regret the thing that someone else did to me"
September 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"I regret the thing that someone else did to me"