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kurtstat.bsky.social
Healthcare data analyst. Aspiring Munroist.
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The entire internet right now.

submitted 5 hours ago • 43 comments

This is brilliant visual journalism. And now I’m mad I didn’t think to do something like this first. 📊 also a great example of why you extend the X axis to show more context on line charts (instead of the Y)

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

When we try to understand the impact of hospital bed fullness on the length of time patients spend in the Emergency Department, it can be a bit disappointing to find that yes, there's an impact but it's only a small impact. 1/n

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There are some really good points here made by @awilliamson1.bsky.social (about 13:30 into the podcast) about how measurement needs to be bottom-up to be successful. Performance metrics should be jointly defined and agreed, not imposed from on high. Oh, and measurement can be motivating, too!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I've been developing my >12-hour A&E stay chart, the one inspired by @edhawkins.org's iconic #warmingstripes. My latest idea is to compare six EDs on the same chart. I may have inadvertently invented a new 'Guess the hospital' picture round for NHS Scotland University Challenge... #rstats #ggplot2

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

utterly sublime

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

"Just as some of us of the cold old English school had to make adjustments when hugging and double cheek-kissing people on first acquaintance became acceptable, ... the post-boomers feel the same way about suddenly being communicated with." davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/bad-manners

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My A&E #warmingstripes experiments continue. Given that even the lowest value in this time series was 2,532 (Aug 2011), I don't think the colour gradient should start at blue, or even white; it should be shades of red all the way across. The highest value was 212,280 (Dec 2022). #rstats #ggplot2

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Went for a clifftop walk at St Abb's Head.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

"[TikTok's] fundamental insight is that social media isn’t really social at all. It’s not a way for friends to connect with friends. TikTok cares about what you’re interested in, what grabs your attention, what triggers you." open.substack.com/pub/ianlesli...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

This is a nice practical guide to data visualization by @nrennie.bsky.social @royalstatsoc.bsky.social! royal-statistical-society.github.io/datavisguide/

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I'm seeing if I can show patient arrivals into three hospital staging posts on one chart. Here's my first attempt. I chose a day at random, I'm trying to show the spacing and clustering of arrivals in each staging post. Still needs a bit of work... #rstats #ggplot2 1/2

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

At least the BMJ reported this huge story about excess deaths cause by long A&E waits. Almost nobody else did: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

There are a handful of good operational processes that are universally agreed to be good practice in effective organisations. From good logistics through performance management, to analysis and problem solving...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"...the reason most people are unhappy is because they’re waking up each morning to a public realm that seems shittier and more annoying to deal with than it was yesterday, even as they’re paying more for its upkeep." Brilliant article by @mjrobbins.com.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I am trying to understand a bit more about climate science but I got confused today when I saw this statement in this @theguardian.com article: www.theguardian.com/environment/... My understanding up to this point had been that global mean temperature is 15 °C. Where am I going wrong?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

'Just cutting a budget without a well thought-out plan doesn’t magically improve efficiency, and it’s very likely to disrupt the healthcare you were trying to deliver.' www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

I think we're getting close to the point when @whitefleece.bsky.social and I are ready to launch our #KnowYourFlow and #TriptychMetrics slogans into the World of Unscheduled Care!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This was a really clear explanation by @nrennie.bsky.social of how to go about creating interactive charts in R. I feel properly enthused!

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

That was a great @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social Coffee and Coding session just now. @johnmackintosh.bsky.social showed us how he made his interactive population pyramids and now I want to have a go... johnmackintosh.com/blog/2025-04...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

In this era, I think it's more useful to sort people by whether they participate in democratic discourse or disordered discourse, rather than left vs right.

submitted 21 days ago • 30 comments