Amelia Edmondson-Stait

Main projects from my research work

  • PhD Projects

During my PhD I worked on large, population datasets including UK Biobank, Generation Scotland and ALSPAC. One of my projects investigating the associations between inflammatory markers in the blood and longitudinal outcomes of depression and psychotic like experiences is published in a scientific journal.

Skills: R, statistical analysis, high performance computing, project management

  • R Shiny application for statistical analysis

I took a 6-month secondment during my PhD to develop an R Shiny app to facilitate statistical trajectory analysis of longitudinal data. This was a project initiated led by Dr Alex Kwong, funded by the Wellcome Trust Data Prize, and included collaborations with the University of Bristol and King’s College London.

Skills: R Shiny, app-development, cloud hosting, project management

  • Data cleaning of electronic health records

I extracted and cleaned health data from the Welsh population (SAIL Data Bank) for a colleagues project. For more info see my blog post here.

Skills: SQL, R, working in a safe haven, project management

Example side projects (for developing skills)

  • Web scraper of autotrader website

Wanted to have a go at web scraping and improve my python skills. Spent a day playing around with web scraping using Selenium to scrape a car sales website and extract a spreadsheet to compare all the cars extracted from. More info on my GitHub repo here.

Skills: web scraping, python, Selenium, data viz

  • Data visualisation of FitBit data

Was curious about the data stored on my FitBit, so had a go at downloading it and visualsing how many steps I do per season. Want to come back to this and look at some of the other data too. More info on my GitHub repo here.

Skills: R, data viz