So I finally did it. After years of thinking “I should really have a website,” here it is. Built with Quarto and R -because if I’m going to procrastinate on something, I might as well learn a new tool while doing it.
By day, I’m a transplant surgeon in Cardiff. By night (and the occasional weekend), I’m increasingly obsessed with data science, R, and finding better ways to answer clinical questions with code rather than gut feeling. This site is where those two worlds collide.
What to expect here
I plan to write about things I find genuinely interesting -which, fair warning, mostly involves organ transplantation and wrangling data in R. Topics might include:
- Lessons learned building clinical datasets (and all the messy bits nobody tells you about)
- R tips and tricks I stumble across
- Thoughts on how data science can actually make a difference in transplant surgery
- The occasional rant about PDF forms and NHS IT systems
I’ll try to post regularly. Whether that means weekly or “whenever I have a spare evening” remains to be seen. Transplant surgery has a habit of rearranging your calendar at short notice.
Why Quarto?
I wanted something I could write in plain text, render with R code, and publish without fighting a CMS. Quarto ticks all those boxes. If you’re thinking of building your own academic site, these got me started:
Right, that’s enough for a first post. Time to go and actually write something worth reading.