The “Practical Analysis” blog series is dedicated to answering the questions: “So what is analysis anyway?” and “How can I apply it in my world?”...

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The “Practical Analysis” blog series is dedicated to answering the questions: “So what is analysis anyway?” and “How can I apply it in my world?”...
In my first post on exploratory data analysis (EDA), I discussed why it’s important to get a “sense” for the data you’re working with before...
We humans like pictures. We’re wired to process images quickly and effectively. The evolution of those capabilities over thousands of years has...
Too much data and not enough useful information is one of the great paradoxes of the era of large scale, pervasive computing. Improving that balance...
The original idea for the “Practical Analysis” blog series came from a seemingly simple question: “What is analysis?” Answering that question took...
In my recent series of posts, I’ve been exploring various approaches to value-based care (VBC). Here I’ll delve into Accountable Care Organizations...
Healthcare organizations are making significant investments in data analytics – an estimated $11 billion last year, forecast to surpass $30 billion...
Lately, I have been thinking about the transition to value-based care in terms of a journey and envisioning an automobile dashboard as a means for...
Trust is the foundation of all good relationships—and not just between people. Trust in data is essential for healthcare organizations. This is...
The ground is shifting beneath the feet of healthcare leaders. The United States is inexorably moving toward value-based care, requiring healthcare...
In healthcare, the phrase “data-driven decision making” is a popular one, meant to describe how organizations integrate objective information to...
Healthcare analytics. Data visualization. Population health. Buzz continues to build around these terms as we look ahead to 2018. But looking back,...
As an analyst, you can perform the most sophisticated analysis and draw the most compelling conclusions, but without a way to share these with...
When we rely on data to make decisions, how do we tell what is a meaningful signal and what is merely noise? Data is neither, in and of itself, as...
November 1, 2017, may someday be remembered as the date that analytics irrevocably took over baseball. That’s when the Houston Astros won the World...
In Part I of my Practical Analysis series on analysis and statistics, I talked about statistical concepts. Understanding the concepts is essential,...
Where do statistics fit into the world of analysis? Well, analysis allows us to make objective arguments to discover the truth based on actual...
In the first post of the “Practical Analysis” blog series, I suggested that numeracy will become an increasingly essential skill set in the 21st...
If you’re involved in any way with analyzing information, you undoubtedly are acquainted with the term “big data” by now. There is certainly a...
Take any population – any group of people. Let’s say you have a group of healthcare professionals in one room. They have in common their area of...