LINK TO REPORT HOSTED ON GITHUB PAGES
The initial work for this project was completed in May 2023 as part of the CodeClan Professional Data Analysis Course. Updates were made in July 2023.
Disclaimer: This report has been written for the authors learning purposes only.
To inform the planning and provision of cancer treatment services, analyse breast cancer incidence data from the NHS Borders health board. Findings should be presented in a report of 1-2 pages, highlighting any significant insights and identified trends.
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Screening data should be reviewed to establish if the resulting back-log from COVID-19 has been cleared in order to establish whether a further increase in incidences should be anticipated in 2022.
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Resources should be allocated according to the observed trend of increased incidences every three years
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Research/Analysis should be conducted to further understand and confirm any reason for this trend, including any links to screening schedules.
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Research/Analysis should be conducted to establish whether increased incidence with age is in any way the result of current screening criteria and if therefor screening criteria should be widened.
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Long term service planning should take into consideration the ~4% projected population increase of the female 50-70 demographic in NHS Borders, as projected by the National Records of Scotland.
Skills
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Visualisation
- Geospatial Analysis
- Hypothesis Testing
- Data Wrangling
- Data Cleaning
Languages
- R
- RMarkdown
- HTML
- CSS
Packages
- tidyverse
- infer
- plotly
- sf
- gt
- gtExtras
- janitor
Technlogoies
- Git
- GitHub