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Floating Profile Picture for Your Quarto Website About Page
Website
In this post I share how to make your profile picture “float” in your quarto website about page. To achieve the desired effect I use the trestles theme which for large screens displays as a two…
Sep 12, 2024
Filip Reierson
A Ridgeline Plot of Aged Care Star Ratings
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
Data-visualisation
In this article, I share a ridgeline plot showing the evolution in the distribution of Australian aged care star ratings since they were introduced. I specifically use the overall star rating prior…
Aug 6, 2024
Filip Reierson
Synthetic Control Dataset: The Basque Country
PhD
SCM
R
Data-visualisation
The seminal paper in the synthetic control literature,
Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003)
, explored the impact of terrorism on the Basque Country. In this article I reproduce some of the key figures and…
Jul 15, 2024
Filip Reierson
Trends in Aged Care Star Ratings Visualised
Data-visualisation
MOA-Benchmarking
In this article I share interactive graphs that allow readers to explore trends in Australian aged care star ratings grouped by various variables. The available data spans from May 2023 to May 2024…
Jun 25, 2024
Filip Reierson
Exploring Coffee Flavour Notes in The Great American Taste Test
R
Table
Analysis
TidyTuesday
James Hoffman, a coffee expert and YouTuber ran a blind coffee taste test in October of 2023 that involved participants receiving coffee taste kits. See James Hoffman’s live stream or the analysis to…
Jun 13, 2024
Filip Reierson
A Year of Aged Care Star Ratings Visualised
Data-visualisation
MOA-Benchmarking
In this article, I visualise the most recent year of Australian residential aged care star ratings. Using a Sankey chart, I show the flow of star ratings between quarters. The width of each path…
Jun 12, 2024
Filip Reierson
Show Documentation for Your R Function in Quarto on Click
R
In this article I share an approach to displaying documentation for user written functions in a quarto document using Tippy.js popups. The reason I started looking into this is that when I share…
Apr 30, 2024
Filip Reierson
Making a Custom Blog Widget Using GitHub Actions
Recently I wanted to include a widget on the about page of this website showing my current personal best typing speeds. However, my preferred website, Monkeytype, doesn’t appear to have a widget for…
Apr 7, 2024
Filip Reierson
An Interactive Aged Care Star Rating Frequency Chart
Data-visualisation
MOA-Benchmarking
Some time ago I designed a frequency chart for displaying how common various combinations of aged care star ratings are. However, while broad patterns were easy to make out from the static graph…
Mar 25, 2024
Filip Reierson
My Beamer Revealjs Theme
R
Using revealjs and quarto together is a powerful combination especially as there are many R packages for creating interactive html based data visualisations and showing output under code chunks can…
Mar 1, 2024
Filip Reierson
A Knitr Based Approach to R Puzzles
R
The R programming language is full of interesting quirks and functions that do not come up regularly in the typical analyst’s workflow. However, knowing about the less common functions and inner…
Feb 28, 2024
Filip Reierson
The December Effect for Compliments in Aged Care
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
Gathering feedback from aged care consumers, representatives, visitors, and staff is key to improving the quality of care offered by aged care services. While constructive criticism is important it…
Dec 12, 2023
Filip Reierson
Potential Underreporting of Pressure Injuries in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
R
In this analysis I consider potential underreporting of pressure injuries in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program by modelling the reporting of zero pressure injuries.
Nov 3, 2023
Filip Reierson
Aged Care Star Ratings for Q3 FY22-23
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
In this article I aim to provide some visualisations and analysis of the star rating extract for Q3 FY22-23, released by the
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (2023)
. I show…
Aug 30, 2023
Filip Reierson
Analysis of Rest Homes in New Zealand
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
In this analysis I summarise the full list of certified rest home providers in New Zealand, a publicly available dataset, released by the
Ministry of Health-Manatū Hauora (2023)
.
Jul 28, 2023
Filip Reierson
Lessons From Text Mining Aged Care Consumer Feedback
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
Both positive and negative feedback contribute to the continuous improvement of aged care services. Positive feedback recognises and reinforces what is working well, while negative feedback…
Jun 29, 2023
Filip Reierson
Pets in Aged Care
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
In this analysis I look at the impact of allowing pets in aged care. Some research has been done that suggests keeping pets in residential aged care can be therapeutic for people living with dementia
…
Jun 19, 2023
Filip Reierson
Great Looking Waffle Charts in R
R
Data-visualisation
There are many ways to visualise proportion data, one of which is using a pie chart. However, pie charts are often not ideal because it is harder to assess angles than lengths. Instead we may use a…
Jun 17, 2023
Filip Reierson
People Using Aged Care 2008-2022
Data-visualisation
MOA-Benchmarking
In this article I share some interactive graphs that give insight into the people using aged care services in Australia. My aim was to highlight trends, age structure, and groups of interest. I…
Jun 11, 2023
Filip Reierson
Multivariable Linear Model for Aged Care Star Ratings
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
I have previously performed descriptive analysis of the star ratings for Q2 FY22-23. In this article, I used the same dataset, and a linear model to assess the importance of various factors in…
May 26, 2023
Filip Reierson
Analysing Aged Care Star Ratings for Q2 FY22-23
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
The service level data for aged care star ratings is now available
(Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care 2023)
, but in its unprocessed form it is hard to derive insights from…
May 15, 2023
Filip Reierson
An analysis of NDIS staff feedback
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
I analysed the results of the Staff Feedback Survey delivered by
MOA Benchmarking (2022)
to members that provide disability support services and I have shared the results here.
Apr 28, 2023
Filip Reierson
Percentile rank calculator for residential aged care star ratings
MOA-Benchmarking
Calculator
I may update with new data extracts as they are released by
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2023)
. However, I have included the option of using data from previous quarters as well.
Dec 24, 2022
Filip Reierson
Quality control using control charts in aged care
MOA-Benchmarking
Informational
The world is unpredictable. In a particular month, a person with a low risk of falls may experience more falls than someone with a high risk. If the risk of falls has increased then this should be…
Sep 20, 2022
Filip Reierson
Flu seasons in residential aged care 2016-2022
Analysis
MOA-Benchmarking
The 2020 and 2021 flu seasons in Australia did not arrive. In fact, in Figure 1 it is hard to even make out the lines representing the weekly number of confirmed flu cases for 2020 and 2021 (green…
Sep 8, 2022
Filip Reierson
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