NUH Analyst BOK

Welcome

This is the Nottingham University Hospitals Analyst “Body of Knowledge”. It is a living document, designed to serve multiple purposes.

It is:

• A growing summary of our institutional knowledge, searchable and easy to use as a reference.
• An onboarding guide, to support data analysts new to our teams or new to healthcare.
• A practical training project, allowing new users of git to practice by contributing to a project of real value.
• An exercise in transparency, and a commitment to “being the difference we want to see” in relation to open working, and open-source analytical development.
• A searchlight, to help guide us towards other NHS organisations and contacts who may find value here, or who may be able to help us one day.

But mostly, it is a place for us to write things, so that “future us” knows where to find them. Doing this in a public github repository ensures we create something not quick and disposable, but something considered, deliberate and of gradually accumulating value.

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

- Sir Isaac Newton

You can find some of our “giants” listed in the reading list and acknowledgements sections, or start exploring the table of contents to the left.