Category Archives: Education

Healthcare Quality Metrics: An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Menagerie Press

Healthcare Quality Metrics 1.     Health Resource and Service Administration http://www.hrsa.gov/healthit/toolbox/RuralHealthITtoolbox/PatientQuality/metrics.html Description: A quality metric allows a user to quantify the quality of a selected aspect of care.  The Health Resource and Service Administration website explains the different types of quality metrics … Continue reading →

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ICD-9 Conversion to ICD-10 Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Menagerie Press

ICD-9 Conversion to ICD-10 Resources 1.     Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Coding/ICD10/index.html?redirect=/icd10 Description: ICD-9 code sets used in reporting medical diagnoses and impatient procedures are being replaced by ICD-10 code sets on October 1, 2014.  This transition is required … Continue reading →

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Big Data Analysis Tools/Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Menagerie Press

Big Data Analysis Tools/Resources 1.     Chris Stucchio’s blog http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html This blog makes this list primarily for one article: “Don’t use Hadoop – your data isn’t that big”, which provides a guide for deciding whether your data really qualifies as big … Continue reading →

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SQL Programming Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Menagerie Press

SQL Programming Resources 1.     Coursera/Stanford “Introduction to Databases” https://www.coursera.org/course/db One of the biggest names in Massive Open Online Courseware (MOOC), Coursera has a huge database of university level courses. This offering from Stanford University has 9 units devoted to SQL … Continue reading →

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Database Training Resources: An Annotated Bibliography

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Menagerie Press

Database Training Resources 1.     Coursera/Stanford “Introduction to Databases” https://www.coursera.org/course/db Introduction to Databases from Stanford University was one of the first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by Coursera in 2011, and has remained consistently popular. The course covers database design and … Continue reading →

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OEDB and Trends in the IT Field

Posted on August 6, 2013 by Menagerie Press

I was recently contacted by Xavier Gray and his colleagues, whom requested that I write a bit about their online website (I wouldn’t truly call it a database, it’s more akin to a career/education guide). The website in question is … Continue reading →

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Association Rules and Data Mining With RapidMiner

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Menagerie Press

A good association rule set never fails to impress me. I love the hypothetical made concrete, the hunch turned into fact – attributes become relationships, numbers become involvement between tuples, fields, and tables. All in all, we live in interesting … Continue reading →

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Data Analysis With R

Posted on February 9, 2013 by Menagerie Press

I’ve been working my way through the Machine Learning for Hackers book from O’Reilly press (which really should be named R for Machine Learning), and just finished a small data analysis project in R. While the syntax is a little … Continue reading →

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The Penn Data Store and Medical Data Integration

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Menagerie Press

Here is the second poster presentation from the NEDB 2013 conference at MIT. The conference was on Feb. 1, 2013, and was a boat-load of fun. ABSTRACT: As a premier research institution, the University of Pennsylvania harbors numerous databases: these … Continue reading →

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The Future of Health Data

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Menagerie Press

Here is the poster that I presented at the New England Database Conference 2013, held over at MIT‘s Stata Center in Cambridge, MA. I’ve also excised the abstract for ease of reading (and so that Google will zero in on … Continue reading →

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