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by apwheele 3y ago
The Z codes (ICD to be specific) are similar. Although those two are not exhaustive -- it can be conditional so can be confusing. You have different rules for chronic conditions, so for example something could be rolled up into a billable D
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by apwheele 3y ago
Some people use the outputs like documentation, since github renders the notebook contents nicely in the browser. I agree it is not the best practice in many situations, I like using it on occasion though. Another alternative if you want th
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Million Dollar HotSpots of Crime(crimede-coder.com)
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by apwheele 3y ago
https://andrewpwheeler.com/ Currently data scientist, PhD in social science, just a nerd journal for stuff I am working on.
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by apwheele 3y ago
Of interest to folks looking at this post -- Chris Said has a deeper dive on US air quality metrics and their provenance, https://chris-said.io/2023/06/19/the-air-quality-index-doesn... . The attempt to make t
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Dashboards are often not worth the effort(andrewpwheeler.com)
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by apwheele 3y ago
I tend to think the continuous color palettes don't look very nice (no matter what the colors are) in various data visualizations. So I often prefer the color brewer discrete smaller sets, https://colorbrewer2.org/#type
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Machine learning models and the market for lemons(andrewpwheeler.com)
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by apwheele 4y ago
Yeah I just have a chart of potholes filled in Raleigh via python, https://github.com/apwheele . (So doesn't update the readme.md itself, just updates the PNG the readme points to.) Good idea to add in a `timeout-minute
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A $100M Mess: North Carolina’s attempt to digitize court records(theassemblync.com)
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Chunking It Up in Pandas(andrewpwheeler.com)
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by apwheele 4y ago
Totally get the point -- in the ER it is a mix of narrative and tests, so hopefully not so many. But in general practice, probably more BS than any of us would like. Part of the difficulty with healthcare (that I myself don't have an e
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by apwheele 4y ago
I think people are more impressed with the "well-described explanation", which is a (mostly bullshit) interpolation from prior text on the internet. If you just focus on the "feed a narrative and get out a probability of a pa
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Being a former professor, to do good tests is really hard. The vast majority of take home tests are quite poor that I have seen (in data science at least). I am skeptical most people even attempt to do their own tests they create, I commonl
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by apwheele 4y ago
If you want to look to more objective measures, since late 2021 there has been a ICD code assigned to long Covid (so it is diagnosed by a medical professional, not self report). For example, https://www.dovepress.com/positiv
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Long Covid happens in 4% of infections(yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com)
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Reminds me a bit of this blog post by Tal Yarkoni, https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/08/18/if-we-already-und... . That is perhaps more consistent with the "we are just really complicated neural ne
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The serenity prayer and being a senior developer(andrewpwheeler.com)
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I found it resonated (although agree the title is click-baity, they just talk about their own experiences in multiple orgs). It is hard to do good data work. Offhand it takes some combination of: - business understanding and goals (that don
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That distribution is quite PERT(blogs.sas.com)
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For an alt take, https://grahamfactor.substack.com/p/qualified-immunity-in-co...
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Fake blood or freezing treatments to save gunshot wound victims(thebaltimorebanner.com)
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by apwheele 4y ago
Due to the curse of dimensionality, more of the points are pushed toward the hull in higher dimensions. So I don't think this is likely to be very effective as a data exploration technique as stated. There may be more general expected
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by apwheele 4y ago
Just as an alt perspective, gained quite a bit of weight in mid 20's-30's. I tried various things -- I did Judo in college before gained weight, but doing BJJ after I gained weight I could never keep up even though I loved it. Did
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NYC shootings cost taxpayers at least $350M in hospital bills(nypost.com)
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by apwheele 4y ago
Agree with this, the data is consistent with small, additive, effects of learning over time. (And those additive effects don't show much variance between students, at least for these short courses.) I have a pet theory in general for n
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How TikTok Caused a Surge in Auto Thefts(jasher.substack.com)
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Pretty much. Some things to ease the process are to make the questions asked specific as possible (no good if the question can be ambiguous sort of in the end), and to have feedback (plus initial training to help people understand to make c
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At work, we have a team that is working on various agile dashboards for project metrics (acceleration or burndown or whatever, all the stuff I would guess the majority of folks commenting on Hacker News dislike). I've wondered if havin
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by apwheele 4y ago
One I have seen for time-series forecasting is the inverse-hyperbolic sine function as well, https://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/transformations/ .

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