Shooting Flying Bees is Hard

The flower patch was in full bloom today. I think we’ve finally seen everything that was in the yard when we bought it crop up (although July and August may still have some surprises). For the bees, however,… Read More

R Slopegraphs and the HHP Leaderboard

I’m still working on my visualization-fu, so when the Heritage Health Prize finally got announced, the final scores provided a simple source of data that I wanted to investigate. I’ve written about the HHP before.  After spending three years with… Read More

Quick Python for ICD-10 XML Parsing

ICD-10 coding is a hot topic in medical data circles this year.  The short version is that, when you visit a doctor, they have a standard set of codes for both the Diagnoses and the Procedures relevant to… Read More