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Tom Smith

@analyst42.bsky.social

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Code-first data analyst, mostly #rstats. Good information --> good decisions. Head of Activity Analysis & Forecasting at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Personal account, views my own. github.com/ThomUK

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is a great post. "Not making a decision is still a form of making a decision"

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fable is doing useful stuff for me. I know I prompted in this direction, but Fable agrees with me - it's very frustrating that NHSE continue to scatter their public data products across different websites, with different UI, naming conventions, and no metadata. Still no APIs on this stuff in 2026!

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Claude wrote a UK population growth comparison tool for me using office for national statistics data. It uses webR under the hood so you can run the calcs locally to confirm them. thomuk.github.io/claude-scrat... You can investigate by region(s), sub-ICB(s), or Local Authority(s) #rstats

Population pyramids comparing 2026 to 2036 population projections for the Nottinghamshire NHS Sub-ICB

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This is right up my street, thanks for building it. Just to let you know that something in the layout is a little funky on mobile

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A gif from my first locally-deployed diffusion model (Quen-image). The frames of the gif are each of the sequential de-noising steps, ultimately producing the final image. The prompt was kindly supplied by my 6 year old son!

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I wrote a mobile-based image detection app during the first half of my daughter's swimming lesson. It's not perfect, but it was fun!

A vibe-coded image detector misclassifying a white pair of trainers as a toilet.

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you were planning data warehouse changes for a largish hospital (4 sites, 18k staff, 1400 inpatient beds, a significant amount of outpatient work, and collaboration regionally), which of these data tools would be in your dream team? Asking for a friend.

A matrix of big data tech tooling, dating from 2016. The 2024 landscape is significantly more complex.

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Tom Smith @analyst42.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

If you work on data with R or python in the UK Health (NHS) or Social Care sectors, you're probably already coming to the conference in October... But if you know anyone who isn't, show them this...

NHS-R and NHS pycom conference poster, for anyone working on data in the UK Health and Social Care sectors.

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