Jay Achar

Jay Achar

Infectious Diseases Specialist
Tuberculosis, HIV, Global Health
Data driven

Docker for reproducibility

Reproducible analyses using R with Docker

8 minutes read

In the last few weeks, I’ve been working with an analysis that I first started 3 years ago. The study was accepted for an international conference in late 2019 and some of the questions that came up from the audience rekindled my ambition of improving on the original analysis.

Powerlifting - Tidy Tuesday

Practicing with tidybayes

5 minutes read

This week’s #TidyTuesday topic is international powerlifting. While it’s certainly not a topic I know much about or am particularly interested in, the description of the data suggests there’s plenty to dig into.

Tabulation in R

Research quality summary tables using arsenal

6 minutes read

Last week, I was drafting a report to summarise some data generated by one of the programmes I support. When I looked online for any packages that might simplify this, I realised that there were a number of different options. Importantly, I wasn’t so interested in generating summary statistics, but to do this and present them in a way that would be acceptable for reporting purposes including research manuscripts.

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I'm an Infectious Diseases specialist doctor and epidemiologist with keen interests in tuberculosis, data-driven programming and research.