🎄Day 11 🎄: Multi-panel figures!

The R package {patchwork} makes professional-looking multi-panel figures like this SUPER easy to do.

This means more efficient story telling, saved space, and clearer comparisons between groups.

#r #rstats #epi

This week, we had the Third #Epiverse TRACE Summit at MRC The Gambia 🇬🇲.

With collaborators from three continents (🇬🇲🇨🇴🇬🇧), we delivered open software tools (17 R packages) and a growing training programme to support global, locally tailored epidemiological solutions.

▶️ epiverse-trace.github.io

The best first sentence of a grant application I've read was (paraphrasing), "Tool X is widely used to do task Y; we will make it accessible to people living with condition Z (13% of the population) so that it is more equitable and more widely used". Let's unpack why, because there's a lesson. 🧵

Day 6: Today’s is Chapter 28 of the EpiR Handbook: GIS because Epis love maps! 🗺️
🌍 Learn how to make spatial data work for you: www.epirhandbook.com/en/new_pages...

But let’s make this even easier. Did you know you can create an interactive map in R with just one line of code? 🤯 Follow along 👇

We held the first London Infection & Ecology Network event this week at NHM and it was fantastic - thanks to everyone who came. We're connecting researchers across London who are interested in ecology, infection and disease - follow LIEN and watch this space for more events!
bsky.app/profile/lien...

Day 7: Publication-ready tables! How cool is it to run code and instantly generate a fully formatted table! With flextable, you can:

🖍️ Style fonts
🔗 Merge cells
📑 Add layered headings
📐 Adjust dimensions

Learn about it in the EpiRHandbook: epirhandbook.com/en/new_pages...

#rstats #epi #r

Exciting plans ahead for training and collaboration to help tackle epidemic threats using outbreak analytics and modelling, with a great event this week hosted by colleagues at MRC Gambia:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i1X...

More on Epiverse (and more to come): epiverse-trace.github.io

Hello Bluesky! We’re Applied Epi! What do we want? To improve Applied Epidemiology worldwide! When do we want it? Well probably in an achievable timeframe that doesn’t completely destroy a much needed and already existing infrastructure that is overburdened!