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Florida Healthcare Costs

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If you read any Stephen Few for more than a minute, you’d realize he emphatically stresses clear and simple-looking visualizations.  Well, he does in the one O’Reilly book I have of his where he spends a considerable amount of time pointing out what NOT to do.

With this in mind and looking for an excuse to keep playing with Awesome Tableau Software, I decided to take another look at the Healthcare Costs Data previously talked about at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’.

This time, I restricted the data to the state of Florida (I’m here) and decided to drop the map.  The hopeful intent of this visualization is to provide the needed information as fast as possible.  As before, I cannot embed here but provide the link instead.  Just click on the images to play with visual.

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And for perspective, this is what Stephen did.

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May 19, 2013 at 7:38 am

US Healthcare Costs

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… and here is a quick and dirty graphical overview of the discrepancies in cost per diagnoses across the US.  This was done with Tableau and recently made available data shared on previous post.

Click on the image for visualization.  Free WordPress won’t let me embed!

Healthcare Costs Across US

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May 10, 2013 at 1:46 pm

Garmin Forerunner 10 Running Tip

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The Garmin FR10 running watch has 2 screens to display data when you run. Each of these screens can, in turn, display 2 data fields.

During a run, you can scroll thru these two screens, plus time and date screen, using the lower right button on the watch. In this way, the watch can display up to 4 data fields while you run.

On a different setting option, you can set Pace to be average pace or instantaneous pace (default). This setting is absolute, you cannot have 2 pace data fields, one for average and another one for instantaneous.

Having set the two display screens already, including (now average) pace, you have the option to include instantaneous pace as well.

Just turn on Virtual Pace. This feature takes a pace given and informs you if you are ahead or behind it.

Now, as you run, you can scroll thru these screens with the Virtual Pace screen now displaying a fifth data field.

Sweet!

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May 9, 2013 at 4:35 pm

Posted in Life, Running

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Medical Provider Charge Database Download

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Data is provided at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services here. This dataset is being both in Excel and CSV formats.

Data looks like this:

DRG Definition

039 – EXTRACRANIAL PROCEDURES W/O CC/MCC

Provider Id

10001

Provider Name

SOUTHEAST ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER

Provider Street Address

1108 ROSS CLARK CIRCLE

Provider City

DOTHAN

Provider State

AL

Provider Zip Code

36301

Hospital Referral Region Description

AL – Dothan

Total Discharges

91

Average Covered Charges

32963.07692

Average Total Payments

5777.241758

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May 8, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Lake Minneola Half Marathon 2013

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4:30 a.m. – It is dark.  Alarm goes off.  It has been raining all night. Awake for half an hour, I’ve been thinking of the day about to start.  Having picked up running five months ago hoping to improve my health, today was going to be different.

I had registered to run my first half marathon, Lake Minneola’s Half Marathon.

2013 lake 12k - 640

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May 2, 2013 at 6:33 pm

Posted in Life, Running

Hungarian Bookshelves

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So after reading this post http://toolmonger.com/2012/03/28/hungarian-shelves-ftw-or-why-tm-readers-rock/ about bookshelves, I was naive enough to give it a try.  This is my brief overview of how in went for me, in pictures.  I’ll be happy if it saves a few people a few hours or headache or two.  I am not apologizing for the phone pictures.

Notes of value follow each picture.

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Here’s finished shelf.  The stain has almost dried, can still smell it.  I blink, its half way full already!

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March 4, 2013 at 8:28 pm

Posted in Life

OBIEE RPD Consistency Error [nQSError: 15019] Table % is functionally dependent upon level % …

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Complete Error:

[nQSError: 15019] Table Calendar is functionally dependent upon level Month, but a more detailed child level has associated columns from that same table or a more detailed table.

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July 17, 2012 at 8:59 am

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