Presentation by dr. Robby De Pauw, researcher at Sciensano.
Robby explains how R is used by researchers at Sciensano (the national health institute in Belgium). There are about 300 researchers in the institute and about 80% are using R. Robby covers
- how Sciensano moved from SPSS/STATA/SAS to mainly R
- which R packages are in use at Sciensano
- some use cases and data flows covering among others
- a shiny app https://burden.sciensano.be/shiny/mortality about the Belgian National Burden of Disease Study
- data flows for https://healthybelgium.be
- how they collect surge capacity across the hospital system in Belgium (especially relevant given current COVID crisis)
Enjoy the recordings below!
The next meetup will probably be held in February and will cover how Tabnet (a deep learning technique which allegedly is competitive compared to boosting machine learning models) was implemented on top of the torch R package which interfaces with the libtorch C++ library.
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