NHS-R Community Natural Language Processing with R Course Registration Form

The NHS-R Community is thrilled to announce that we will be hosting a five-week course on how to perform Natural Language Processing with R from September THIS YEAR! This is adapted from a Masters-level course provided by the University of Edinburgh.

This new course, supplied and taught by Dr Pawel Orzechowski of the University of Edinburgh, will be comprised of four two-week blocks, each with explanatory videos, example code and ‘homework’ tasks, culminating in a two-hour online tutorial with Dr Orzechowski (assisted by members of the Strategy Unit Data Science team). The contents of the fifth block will include a project task that will be presented back to the class in the final online meeting. Each fortnightly block will require around 3 hours of independent working from each student.

There are spaces for 40 students on this course, who will be allocated places on a first-come first-served basis provided they meet the prerequisites listed below, and can be confident that they can commit to attending all five weeks of the course.

Prerequisites:

1. An employee of the NHS.
2.  Intermediate R skills.  For example, you have worked with R for 1-3 years and are comfortable in basic syntax, using packages, and writing simple functions. If you are unsure whether your skills are ‘intermediate’, take a look at our course materials used for the ‘Intermediate R’ training provided by NHS-R to get a feel for the level expected.  You do not have to know everything in that course material but should be comfortable understanding the approaches used.
3. Line manager approval for committing to the course for its duration.
4. Ability to attend all Teams-based online teaching sessions.
5. Access to a computer with a stable internet connection, with the latest version of R installed, with a graphical user interface (GUI) for using R (e.g. RStudio, VSCode, Positron) and a Posit Cloud account (free tier is fine).