I run Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. This man Kamran Abbasi is Editor in Chief of The BMJ Together we have invented a new form of non-viral niche-brand digital-content... Behold the MUGSWAP MUGSHOT

Our press release about how pivotal RSEs are to UK science (thanks for the quote Ben Goldacre!)
twitter.com/ResearchSoftEn…

That's not all! Sky News also used OpenPrescribing data for their story about geographical disparities in Opioid prescribing. You can see the whole story here: news.sky.com/story/north-so…

🚨NEWS🚨 Since we launched in March we've mostly talked about the Ben Goldacre Review & OpenSAFELY but ICYMI we also run OpenPrescribing & have done since 2015! This week Channel 4 News ran a 6 min segment using its Price Concessions Dashboard which we built 4 years ago.

From the heroic Hilda Bastian

Today it's 6 MONTHS since we published the Ben Goldacre review! A *lot* has been happening in health data world since, so let's recap.

(If you need the TL;DR version of the Review: twitter.com/jessRmorley/st…)

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Our speakers include inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Distinguished Professor @Genevieve Bell & Ben Goldacre Director Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

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TOMORROW I will be at the Midlands Digital Health Skills Development conference talking all things Ben Goldacre Review, the awesomeness of NHS Analytics, and the development of Secure Data Environment policy by Transforming health and care ….more updates up on the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science site soon!

At the end of August the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care published their Annual Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
We were thrilled to see that the report includes several references to our work on OpenSAFELY, the Goldacre Review, and more. We discuss more in this blog 👇🏻
bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2022/09/n…

Inspiring annual report from the National Data Guardian @ndgoffice on her work. Lots of citations to (and reinforcement of!) our work at Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science on @opensafely and our review on health data for Sec of State. bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2022/09/n…

Bought a plug socket thing that measures kWh energy usage of the device plugged through it, because I am a dad now, but wish to play that role in a data-driven fashion. Our ancient hifi amp idles at 30w so 10p every half day it's on. I could go on. (I will, but not at you.)

The top questions from Research Software Engineers echo those identified in Ben Goldacre's review of Research and Analysis of Health Data: pay and scope for promotion. gov.uk/government/pub… - scroll down for 'Skills' and 'Recruitment'. #RSECon22

This huge wide road. In a city full of cyclists. All that space for a segregated cycle path. Yet Oxfordshire County Council prioritise vast wide lanes for cars, and all those car parking spaces you can see... over safe, efficient, healthy, fast, non-polluting, non-congesting bicycles.

And once again, as fast as it opened, the adequate nectarine window has closed.

Great comment from Andi Orlowski in the Health Service Journal on the importance of the amazing NHS analyst community: hsj.co.uk/policy-and-reg… in achieving the goals we set out in the Ben Goldacre review.

More on what we said about analysts here: twitter.com/jessRmorley/st…

You may know @UniOxford Prof Ben Goldacre as the author of ‘Bad Science’ or the initiative to make data from #AllTrials public. But #DYK you can now read his independent report on how the efficient and safe use of #HealthData can benefit patients? READ: bit.ly/3aDHyeO

This footnote by Ben Goldacre is my favourite outside of a Discworld novel. #alwaysreadthefootnotes

Back in business today, which means the Ben Goldacre Review 'tour' resumes:
- Ldn Informatics Skills Conf 19 Sept
- Digital Future Midlands Conf 22 Sept
- NHS-R Conf 16-17 Nov

If you want a brief insight, check out our short comment in the The Independent: independent.co.uk/voices/nhs-gp-…