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Data Science Software CPD Forum - SAS

29 August 2019 10:00am – 2:30pmBST (+01:00)
SAS London, 199 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AG, United Kingdom

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Data Services has established a Continuing Professional Development Forum which be used to engage NHS England and NHS Improvement professionals and allow them to develop and enhance their abilities in Tableau & SAS. The forums will be held on a monthly basis, alternating between Tableau and SAS on a month by month basis.

This is the sixth forum session focusing on the use of SAS software, there will be 30 spaces for the session.

The forum will run for 4 1/2hrs and follow the below agenda:

Welcome from Data Services

10:00-10:10 Ice breaker/Introduction (10 mins)

10:10-10:30 NHS England presentation - Classification Machine Learning of FNA Digitised Images using SAS (Decision Trees & Neural Networks) (20 mins)

10:30-12:00 Interactive topics led by SAS (1 hr 30 mins)

Enterprise Guide: Top Tips for SAS Programmers & Exploring the Task Gallery for drag & drop users 

Enterprise Miner: Variable Clustering and Selection & Time Series Analysis 

12:00-12:45 Lunch break

12:45- 14:00 Afternoon session- Interactive exercise Diabetes study data:

Exploring the differences & similarities between type 1 & type 2 diabetes patients in Enterprise Guide

Or Building & evaluating classification models for diabetes type 

14:00 - 14:25  Group Discussion: Results of interactive session

14:25 - 14:30 Feedback and ideas for next session

The aims of these sessions are to enable learning to become conscious and proactive, promote best practice techniques and idea sharing, all focused for an individual to improve and have effective professional development. Continuing Professional Development is essential in helping individuals, organisations or entire industries to keep skills and knowledge up to date. Providing CPD enables organisations to become a knowledge bank to key stakeholders of your organisation.

Questions about this event?

Name: Sarah Blundell

Email:sarahblundell@nhs.net

Telephone:07900715522

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