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Discover

🧭 Pick a path and ship something useful this week—dashboards, APIs, or reproducible analyses.
Why start here?

This section reduces choice overload. It aligns to the 10‑Year Plan’s shifts (Hospital → Community, Analogue → Digital, Sickness → Prevention) and prioritises what you can deliver in days: cleaner data, small dashboards/APIs, and safe sharing.

Explore by role​

💼 BI Analyst
KPIs, dashboards, reproducible refreshes.
SQL Server · Power BI · Python · Dash/Evidence.dev

📈 Data Scientist
Predictive models with clear evaluation and deployment.
Python · Pandas · scikit‑learn · Dash/FastAPI

💻 Developer
Secure APIs and UIs that integrate NHS data sources.
FastAPI/Express · React/Next.js · Docker · AWS/Azure

🔧 Data Engineer
Ingest → transform → validate → publish pipelines.
Python ETL · Airflow · dbt · Great Expectations

🩺 Clinician‑Researcher
Audit‑quality analysis and interactive reports.
R/Python · Shiny/Dash · Quarto/Jupyter

🛡 Information Governance
Guardrails for privacy, security, and safe sharing.
DSPT · DPIA · Audit logs · Masking

Explore by technology​

💻 Languages
Python · R · SQL
Write analysis and automation for NHS datasets.

🗄 Databases
DuckDB
Query, join, and validate health data quickly.

📊 Dashboards
Dash · Shiny · Evidence.dev
Interactive charts and tables for clinicians and managers.

🧩 Web & API frameworks
React · Next.js · FastAPI · Express
Build UIs and secure services over your data.

☁️ Cloud & Hosting
AWS · Azure
Managed hosting, databases, and secret stores.

🛠 Tooling
VS Code · Docker · Git · GitHub · Secrets
Reliable, repeatable developer workflows.

Quick wins (≤ 5 minutes)​

  • Query a CSV with DuckDB and filter top practices → /learn/duckdb
  • Spin up Dash and chart A&E arrivals → /learn/dash
  • Turn a SQL query into a shareable page with Evidence.dev → /learn/evidence
  • Use the Secrets & .env guide to standardise config → /learn/secrets

How this fits the NHS Digital Journey​

🔍 Discover→ 📚 Learn→ 🛠 Build→ 📢 Share→ 🤖 AI & ML

  • Start here with your role or technology.
  • Move to Learn for quickstarts and copy‑paste examples.
  • Go to Build to productionise safely.
  • Use Share to publish and collaborate.
  • Add AI & ML enhancements once the foundations are solid.

What’s next?

You’ve completed the Discover stage. Keep momentum: