Computer things. Engineer at bennett.ox.ac.uk. Consulting on other projects. Director at if.org.uk
Joined April 2011
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18 Apr 2024
We're hiring! I cannot overstate the satisfaction of working on stuff that matters (improving healthcare, scientific openness, protecting patient privacy) with brilliant, lovely people in a high-autonomy environment.
Immediately stop what you're doing and come and work with us.
18 Apr 2024
SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS
WE ARE HIRING
We are 40 glorious developers and researchers building critical national data infrastructure for research on health records and more, with huge user numbers, brilliant ideas, brilliant people, huge real-world impact, and everything open source @OpenSAFELY @openprescribing @BennettOxford @FDAAAtracker and more.
JOIN US!
bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/0…
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22 Sep 2023
This is the thing I've been working on for what feels approximately like forever, but is finally being used for real in the wild. The hardest and most fun code I've ever written:
21 Sep 2023
HEALTH DATA GEEKS!
We have developed a portable language for electronic health record data preparation, to meet our needs (for our federated analyses across 58m patients' GP data!) but also to be terse, composable, readable, and.. constrained BUT flexible bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/0…
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14 May 2020
Among the many lessons here is the extraordinary power of small, mixed teams: developers, clinicians, academics (or all 3 in 1 like @dr_c_morton!) working closely together and learning from one another. There's no way this could have been achieved on these timescales otherwise.
14 May 2020
In normal circumstances, obtaining permission to look at sensitive health data would take months or years. A new team has gone from idea to publication in just 42 days econ.trib.al/KmxxzLQ
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Dave Evans retweeted
7 May 2020
I am (truly) honoured that privacy advocates @medConfidential are pleased with our work. Their legitimate concerns helped inform our new model for secure analytics. I'll explain more about how we built the platform on thread in a moment.
7 May 2020
This is important, new, safe research infrastructure that should have existed already x.com/bengoldacre/status/125…
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7 May 2020
This is, simultaneously, the largest COVID study the world has ever produced and (probably) the smallest COVID study our team will ever produce.
From pipe dream to results tables in 5 weeks. A mad, mad ride and an unbelievable privilege to be part of.
Lots more to come.
7 May 2020
OUR NEW PAPER.
Factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 MILLION adult NHS patients.
Largest study of its kind ever, anywhere.
The power of UK / NHS data, realised.
opensafely.org/outputs/2020/…
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…
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Dave Evans retweeted
17 Dec 2019
Behold my glorious, magnificent, heroic team. In here you see openprescribing.net, openpathology.net, trialstracker.net, retractobot, teaching, DataLab Policy Insights (coming next year) and more.
Our cause is just and shall prevail!
ebmdatalab.net/#blog
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Dave Evans retweeted
13 Nov 2019
BING BONG
important NEW PAPER from my @EBMDataLab and @openprescribing group at Oxford, with immediate narrow safety implications, and then wide strategic implications for digital health research.
We have found a breach of safety guidance that is more prevalent in one EHR..
13 Nov 2019
Peer-review me: Impact Of #EHR Interface Design On Unsafe Prescribing Of Ciclosporin, Tacrolimus and Diltiazem: A Cohort #Study In English NHS Primary Care dlvr.it/RJCJqY (preprint)
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15 Aug 2019
Raucous applause, please, for @octopus_energy and their fully documented API, complete with example CURL requests pre-populated with my API key:
developer.octopus.energy/doc…
Hard to imagine the Big Six doing this.
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15 Aug 2019
Also, a minuscule bug report: my meter serial number has a space in it which the example CURL command doesn't encode correctly. (@seddonym @codeinthehole and anyone else I know who works there.)
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5 Mar 2019
Python/Django people, come and work with me: hugely worthwhile projects, interesting problems, lovely people. You won't regret it.
5 Mar 2019
WE ARE HIRING AGAIN.
We're building openpathology and more features on openprescribing, so we need another RESEARCHER, and another SOFTWARE ENGINEER. We produce fabulous tools, services, papers, and policy shouts.
Fun team, epic mission.
JOIN US.
ebmdatalab.net/funding-obtai…
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6 Mar 2019
I should add this can be up to 90% remote as well (1 day every other other week in Oxford)
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16 Oct 2018
@CoverallsApp Hi, I'm having trouble accessing this page coveralls.io/github/ebmdatal… (repeated 504s from Cloudflare). Nothing on your status page. Any chance you could take a look? Thanks
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Dave Evans retweeted
9 Oct 2018
Behold our mighty @EBMDataLab team today. Here you see the force behind openprescribing.net TrialsTracker.net Retracted.net OpenPathology.net and so much more...
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10 Aug 2018
Finally released v4 of WhiteNoise (Python static file server):
whitenoise.evans.io/en/stabl…
Only a year later than first promised (open source life, eh?)
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6 Jul 2018
Shout out to mosh.org for letting me debug server issues from the fast lane of the M40 over a flaky mobile connection.
(From the passenger seat, I should probably add.)
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29 May 2018
Really, actually, very excited to be joining @bengoldacre and his @EBMDataLab team in Oxford
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19 Jul 2017
Proud to have worked on this with @mikejthompson, highlighting a very important issue.
(Need help with your #dataviz project? Get in touch!) x.com/ciwf/status/8873965848…
18 Jul 2017
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Wanted: amazing backend developer to help us create the world’s best #dataviz platform flourish.studio/jobs/lead-ba…
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4 Jul 2017
Just released first beta of WhiteNoise 4.0:
whitenoise.evans.io/en/lates…
Please "pip install whitenoise==4.0b1" and let me know what you think.
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