Scottish Government R User Day
Tuesday 18 June 2024
The R User Day will take place on Tuesday 18 June 2024. The event will be online only and is open to public sector analysts. The theme of the event is “moving from SAS to R”.
To attend the event, please sign up using the registration form. Please make sure to register using your work email address.
We intend to record talks with a view to making them available on Pathways so that they are available for future use. Participants should read the following privacy notice before attending the event (click the blue banner to expand).
By joining the online event, the participant agrees to the following terms and conditions:
The event is being run by the Office of the Chief Statistician and Data Division in the Scottish Government. The event will highlight good practice and promote the use of R open source software with analysts in the Scottish Government and the Scottish public sector.
The presentation part of this event will be recorded so that those who cannot attend it live, can watch it later or attendees can revisit. The recording will be stopped before the Q&A session at the end of each presentation takes place. The presenter will inform attendees once the recording has stopped.
The recording will be held securely by the Office of Chief Statistician and Data Division and is processed under the lawful basis – legitimate interest. These will be excellent reference materials for analysts who would like to refer back to the content of the talks and the recordings will also be of use to those who were unable to attend the events. If you do not wish to be recorded during the presentation, we recommend that your camera and microphone are switched off.
Once the recording has stopped, the event will open to questions where participants can freely ask questions via discussion or within the chat function. This part of the event will not be recorded.
We intend to host the recordings on Pathways and may share it with other public sector organisations.
We will retain the recordings for 5 years. These recordings will be of great interest to analysts in the Scottish Government for the foreseeable future.
If you have any concerns about the information within this privacy notice, please contact Gerry Scullion.
Presentation slides and materials are available in the presentations section of this page.
Please email the organisers if you have any questions or have any accessibility requirements.
Agenda
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 – 10:10 | Opening remarks | |
| 10:10 – 10:20 | Introduction | Paul Matthews |
| 10:20 – 11:00 | All Mapped Out: Introduction to process and value stream mapping | Gwen Nicholson |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | A data validation infrastructure for R | Joe Adams |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Break | |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | R guidance and support | Anouska Pandya and Karren Friel |
| 12:05 – 12:35 | Building a RAP for survey sampling | Emma Schweidler |
| 12:35 – 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Black Box thinking applied to programming language transitions | Sam Hunter |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Workshop: developing R code to rebuild a SAS process | Sam Hunter |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Closing remarks |
Presentations
All Mapped Out: Introduction to process and value stream mapping
Speaker: Gwen Nicholson, Head of People Development and Corporate Governance, DG Health & Social Care, Scottish Government
How to use ‘process mapping’ as an improvement tool and the concept of value stream mapping.
Black Box thinking applied to programming language transitions
Speaker: Sam Hunter, National Records of Scotland
Re-writing a process from one language to another without understanding how the original works. Sam will follow on with a practical example in the afternoon’s workshop.
R guidance and support
Speakers: Anouska Pandya and Karren Friel
Where to find helpful R guidance and information on the R Buddy Scheme.
A data validation infrastructure for R
Speaker: Joe Adams, Scottish Government
The validate R package: benefits, drawbacks, and a real-world implementation
Building a RAP for survey sampling
Speaker: Emma Schweidler, Scottish Government
How we moved our code from SAS to R and ‘RAPified’ the sampling of the centralised surveys.
Workshop: developing R code to rebuild a SAS process
Speaker: Sam Hunter, National Records of Scotland
Join this code-along workshop where Sam will demonstrate how to build a process in R.