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PIKS: A Technique to Identify Actionable Trends for Policy-Makers Through Open Healthcare Data
A. Ravishankar Rao, Subrata Garai, Soumyabrata Dey +1
With calls for increasing transparency, governments are releasing greater amounts of data in multiple domains including finance, education and healthcare. The efficient exploratory…
Building predictive models of healthcare costs with open healthcare data
A. Ravishankar Rao, Subrata Garai, Soumyabrata Dey +1
Due to rapidly rising healthcare costs worldwide, there is significant interest in controlling them. An important aspect concerns price transparency, as preliminary efforts have de…
A system for exploring big data: an iterative k-means searchlight for outlier detection on open health data
A. Ravishankar Rao, Daniel Clarke, Subrata Garai +1
The interactive exploration of large and evolving datasets is challenging as relationships between underlying variables may not be fully understood. There may be hidden trends and…
Hiding in plain sight: insights about health-care trends gained through open health data
A. Ravishankar Rao, Daniel Clarke
The open data movement constitutes an approach to achieving accountability for government organizations, and is aligned with one of the sustainable development goals outlined by th…