As someone who studies state and federal policies, I spend a lot of time trying to identify natural experiments that can provide a degree of causal insight into the effects of certain policy choices. Many studies suffer from a lack…
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Visualizing Tri Indy Race Results
This past weekend, myself and a friend of mine competed in a triathlon in downtown Indianapolis. The group that organizes the race does a great service by publishing all of the athletes' final times along with event splits in one…
When do people scoot?
I've been working this weekend on a couple of papers related to scooter trips and public safety, which has involved a review of the existing peer-reviewed evidence and reports from Bird and others on scooter safety and related municipal priorities.…
Lime Scoots Ahead in 2019
We are hot off the presses with some new scooter stats, having received data for January through March of 2019. As you might imagine, scooter usage in Indianapolis is starting to recover with the warming temperatures and longer days. For…
Update to Scooter Stats
A few weeks ago, I posted some preliminary statistics on Bird and Lime electric scooters (aka dockless mobility devices) in Indianapolis, comparing the scooters here to those in Louisville. I then spoke with Alison Griswold at Quartz to refine the…
Hackathon in Haifa
I was lucky enough to join two of my colleagues from the Fairbanks School of Public Health and Regenstrief for a hackathon in Haifa, Israel where we built a prediction model and visualization tool for congestive heart failure risk among diabetic patients.
Bird & Lime Scooters in Indianapolis, Fall 2018 Edition
Note: an update to this analysis was posted March 27, 2019 March 5, 2019 Update After publishing this, I was able to chat with Alison at Quartz (new newsletter out today) and talk through some of the methodological differences between…
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Visualizing State-Level Changes in Opioid Overdose Deaths
I've been working a lot lately with the CDC's Opioid Prescribing Rate data I posted about in May. A fellow grad student at IU, Kevin Wiley, and myself, have been working on an RShiny app for visualizing maps of this…
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Opioid Prescribing Rate Trends in Indiana, 2006-2016
The opioid epidemic regularly garners national headlines, and numerous new and ongoing efforts are attempting to curb the overprescription of opioids in this country. For example, here in Indiana, IU has already invested in 16 projects as a part of…
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Mount Verstovia in Sitka, AK
I typically have no reason to post photos; most pictures I have are screenshots of articles or pictures of my mom's cats being lazy cats. But I just can't keep these to myself. My cousin, uncle and I hiked…
Nate C. Apathy, PhD 