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apwheele
1,887karma·374submissions·November 10, 2021
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Data scientist. Former academic in criminal justice field.
Personal blog at https://andrewpwheeler.com/
Consulting at https://crimede-coder.com/
Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts (book), https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals
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So although tongue-in-cheek, it is an interesting question when dealing with medical records data (in particular I deal with insurance claims data in the US). So to be clear, I know the person is ali…
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Part of my job I build predictive models to identify individuals at high risk of 'readmission' (it impacts billing, hence why healthcare systems are interested). Conditional on an individual…
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I have an analysis of cointegration between Bitcoin/Ethereum (in python) if folks are interested, https://andrewpwheeler.com/2022/02/09/cointegration-analysis... T…
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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 someth…
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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 th…
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https://andrewpwheeler.com/ Currently data scientist, PhD in social science, just a nerd journal for stuff I am working on.…
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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-qualit…
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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…
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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…
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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 health…
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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 nar…
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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 d…
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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:&#…