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Chicago Hospital Ranking System
There is an incredible lack of transparency and accessibility to hospital ratings. In order to address this issue, and as part of a weekly civic tech hackathon, an organizational quality coordinator from a Chicagoland hospital and I developed a Chicago hospital ranking system as a proof of concept. We: • Acquired, cleaned, analyzed and joined […]
Predicting Rugby 7s Positions with Match-Play Statistics
The American Statistical Association for its 2019 Datafest, provided teams with a large dataset featuring one season’s worth of self-reported wellness data, training data, match results and match-play data for the Canadian Female Rugby team. The objective proposed by the organizers was simply to derive some insights from it. In choosing how to analyze the […]
A Regression-based Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Effects of Resources on Math Proficiency
(For Chicago Public Elementary Schools, SY 2017-2018) Per-pupil expenditures have been on the rise on average for decades at both a national and state level. However, academic outcomes haven’t got much better. A heavy reliance on revenue from local property taxes to fund schools means poorest school districts in Illinois receive 20% less than the […]
Search Engine for Spontaneous and Serendipitous Decision Making
One of the research topics that fascinates me is how we make decisions. I myself felt very confused by how supposedly easy it was to find activities near me, and yet how paralyzingly hard it was to choose. The paradox of choice, decision fatigue, and numerous decision biases lead to increasing stress and a burgeoning […]