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OpenPayments Data #1: Activity Distributions

November 4, 2017November 4, 2017 by Nikolay Rodionov

I’m finally getting to a point where I can start exploring CMS Open Payments data after a couple months of on-and-off tying in complementary datasets. Spoiler: There’s probably going to be a decent amount of posts following this one on pharmaceutical marketing practices. I’m starting things off with a series of visualizations of how payments … Continue reading OpenPayments Data #1: Activity Distributions

rbindlist() for all of you list-of-dataframe monsters

November 2, 2017December 25, 2017 by Nikolay Rodionov

ALAS! Why is gov’t data so terribly structured?! I’ve been working with the CMS Open Payments data recently because the annual datasets offer enough granular info to allow for good modeling practices and pharmaceutical marketing practices are pretty interesting from a policy stand-point. My only harp with the data is it’s poor data structure and … Continue reading rbindlist() for all of you list-of-dataframe monsters