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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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The power, and danger, of visualizations

I recently posted about visualizing the voting patterns [https://www.vikparuchuri.com/how-divided-is-the-senate/] of senators. In the post, I scraped voting data for each senator on every vote in the 113th Congress from the Senate website, and then assigned a code of 0 for a no vote on a particular
Aug 7, 2013 3 min read
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Making infographics using R and Inkscape

I have been making charts with R for almost as long as I have been using R, and with good reason: R is an amazing tool for filtering and visualizing data. With R, and particularly if we use the excellent ggplot2 [http://ggplot2.org/] library, we can go from raw
Jul 24, 2013 5 min read
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