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Exploring US Healthcare data

A few days ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released [http://blog.cms.gov/2014/04/09/historic-release-of-data-delivers-unprecedented-transparency-on-the-medical-services-physicians-provide-and-how-much-they-are-paid/] some unprecedented data on the US healthcare system. The data consists of 9 million rows showing how much each doctor in the US charged Medicare, for what, and how
Apr 13, 2014 7 min read
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How Many Data Scientists Are There?

I’ve seen a lot of articles lately about “Big Data” and the looming “talent gap.” This article [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577365700368073674.html] from the Wall Street Journal is a good example. It cites a McKinsey estimate that states that we will need 1.5 million more managers
Aug 9, 2012 9 min read
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Predicting the NBA Finals with R

This is the initial post about the algorithm. See updates 1 [http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/predicting-nba-playoff-games- results.html], 2 [http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/nba-playoff- predictions-update-2-and.html], and 3 [http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/2012/06/nba-playoff-predictions- update-3-4-2.html] for more. The algorithm is currently 4-2 in the
May 30, 2012 5 min read
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