Biography: I have been working with data in applied healthcare settings in Nottinghamshire since 2002. I am interested in statistical and quantitative methods, particularly those that are germane for evaluation and research in healthcare settings such as mixed effects and other regression models, and psychometrics, dabbling in other things such as complex survey techniques and cluster analysis as appropriate.

My other great interest is statistical and interactive graphics and data and programming techniques to improve the reporting of routinely collected data within the NHS. I led on the data methodologies for Nottinghamshire Healthcare’s patient feedback website (http://feedback.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk/) and I am a keen user of literate programming, R, LaTeX, HTML, Shiny interactive graphics (http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/) and anything else I can get my hands on that allows clinicians, managers, and the public to better understand, access, and explore routinely collected data.