Data Dive: Heritage Health Prize

This is the first Dallas RUG Data Dive event. This will be a workshop to explore the Heritage Health Prize data. The Heritage Health Prize is a data mining and analytics competition hosted by Kaggle.com. The award for the winning entry for the Heritage Health Prize is $3,000,000. This meetup will be exploring the Heritage Health Prize dataset with R. Other tools, preferably open source, are welcome as well.

About the Heritage Health Prize from the website...

"More than 71 million individuals in the United States are admitted to hospitals each year, according to the latest survey from the American Hospital Association. Studies have concluded that in 2006 well over $30 billion was spent on unnecessary hospital admissions. Is there a better way? Can we identify earlier those most at risk and ensure they get the treatment they need? The Heritage Provider Network (HPN) believes that the answer is "yes”.

To achieve its goal of developing a breakthrough algorithm that uses available patient data to predict and prevent unnecessary hospitalizations, HPN is sponsoring the Heritage Health Prize Competition (the “Competition”). HPN believes that incentivized competition is the best way to achieve the radical breakthroughs necessary to begin fixing America’s health care system."

About Data Dives....

A Data Dive is an event where organizations or communities bring their data and data scientists analyze it. The goal is to gather meaningful information from the data to help the organization.

What to bring: A laptop is preferred. Optional but preferred is to get the dataset loaded on the laptop. It requires a signup at the Heritage Health Prize website.

http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp/data

Meetup Location: Univ. of Dallas , Haggerty Science Center, Science Room 2, downstairs

Campus map here - http://www.udallas.edu/aboutus/about/directions

Parking: Parking is available in Lot A