Evolving To Robotic Process Automation

After leaving R1 RCM in June 2020, I have been fortunate to work on a variety of data engineering/data architect projects. I have had a few small business clients and some larger corporate clients. These projects utilize my skills in data architecture, data engineering, and machine learning. I have morphed into what I think of …

Analyzing The Wisconsin Breast Cancer Dataset With Azure ML Studio

Frank Mendoza of  Catalytics  gave a presentation on analyzing the same Wisconsin Cancer Data Set that we presented with the HealthCare.AI toolkit in November 2017.  It was interesting to see how Azure Machine Learning works at a higher level with intuitive, graphical predictive analysis as compared to Healthcare.AI.  I intend to add Azure Machine Learning …

HealthCare.AI (Python version) based on Python sk-learn library

On October 30, 2017, Dan Wellisch, presented the Python version of the HealthCare.AI open source library.  He went through a basic example of a diabetes data set where the goal was to predict 30 day re-admissions for diabetes patients.  He discussed the process of training several models, selecting the highest performance one, saving that model, …

Simple Linear Regression: Step By Step

On September 26, 2017, Dan Wellisch, Organizer of the Chicago Technology For Value-Based Healthcare Meetup, presented a detailed breakdown of the Linear Regression Model.  The Linear Regression Model is the first model that gets taught to Data Science students.  In its simplest form, there are 2 variables, an input (or feature) variable and an output …

An Exercise In Gathering Healthcare Intelligence From An All Payer/All Claims Data Set

I have written an article with Mike Ghen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeghen) on data analysis of healthcare data.  We used IBM Watson Analytics, Microsoft Azure SQL Database, and some Linux editing tools to product a nice summary table of findings.  The article is found here.: An Exercise In Gathering HealthCare Intelligence Using Azure SQL Database, Linux Editing Commands, …

Data Warehouse 201

So, continuing on from the previous article, Data Warehouse 101, I would like to delve a little bit deeper.  First, I would like to backtrack on how I defined a data warehouse in the Data Warehouse 101 article.  I defined a data warehouse as follows.: a large set of databases where data from disparate systems …

Data Warehouse 101

What is a data warehouse? I like to answer this question by defining a warehouse first.  What is a warehouse? Here is the definition provided by Google: a large building where raw materials or manufactured goods may be stored before their export or distribution for sale So, where do these raw materials or manufactured goods …