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 readers in Indy, use those extra hours of sunlight we get by virtue of our … Continue reading Lime Scoots Ahead in 2019
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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 population of scooters we were analyzing, and have since updated the numbers. The main takeaway … Continue reading Update to Scooter Stats
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 what Nathan (Louisville) and I did. I wanted to update the post with some new … Continue reading Bird & Lime Scooters in Indianapolis, Fall 2018 Edition
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 data and the trends over time. We have a lot left that we want to … Continue reading Visualizing State-Level Changes in Opioid Overdose Deaths
Visualizing Medicaid Coverage Losses under BCRA
An explainer on how to put together an interesting geographic data visualization in RStudio using the geofacet package.
