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Predicting Unethical Physician Behavior At Scale: A Distributed Computing Framework, Quinn Keck, Robert Sandor, Miguel Romero, Diane Woodbridge, Paul Intrevado Apr 2019

Predicting Unethical Physician Behavior At Scale: A Distributed Computing Framework, Quinn Keck, Robert Sandor, Miguel Romero, Diane Woodbridge, Paul Intrevado

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As the amount of publicly shared data increases,

developing a robust pipeline to stream, store and process data is

critical, as the casual user often lacks the technology, hardware

and/or skills needed to work with such voluminous data. In

this research, the authors employ Amazon EC2 and EMR,

MongoDB, and Spark MLlib to explore 28.5 gigabytes of CMS

Open Payments data in an attempt to identify physicians who

may have a high propensity to act unethically, owing to significant

transfers of wealth from medical companies. A Random Forest

Classifier is employed to predict the top decile of physicians who

have …


Quantum Criticism, Ashwini Badgujar, Paul Intrevado, Andrew Wang, Kai Yu, David Guy Brizan Apr 2019

Quantum Criticism, Ashwini Badgujar, Paul Intrevado, Andrew Wang, Kai Yu, David Guy Brizan

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Quantum Criticism scrapes data from the News Articles and performs Sentiment Analysis.