Using HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data from Medicare.gov was the beginning of a group project. And a quick hypothesis that if your hospital gets bad survey scores, it’s likely because there are other outliers that correlate.
HCAHPS Survey data gives us quick insights into many different values but to do a quick analysis, we want to stick with an average of the values, and the data offers an average, per hospital.
Thousands of people take a survey or submit a survey.
The average of those values shown in the HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data.
A score from 1 to 5.
1 being the worst and 5 being the best score.
Hopefully, your hospital has a decent score!
Dave Chappelle laughing about hospital survey data
There are hundreds of hospitals in the HCAHPS Survey Data.
When looking at the website above, it’s important to understand how many hospitals per state, to understand the sample size at a state level.
The bar chart below is a distinct count of hospitals per state.
HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data – the number of hospitals per state. In Tableau Desktop by Tyler Garrett.
HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data has many Correlations
HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data has a lot of negative correlations, from a Pearson correlation perspective. In my studies of this data, it was easy to see several correlating factors that supported my initial hypothesis.
If you have bad survey scores,…
It’s likely you also have a high population of homeless people, high death rates, low fertility rates, and also Census 2010 households ethnicity aggregations will more than likely tell a story too.
Finding a Correlation is not Finding Causation.
Just because your state loses the test – remember its an average per state. Correlation is not causation.
Yes, this data can tell you the worst hospitals in your state. It’s important to note; correlation is not causation and it’s important to talk about these potentially predictive outliers.
Follow the link above and start analyzing other data related to the medical field or read more about the metadata below.
Usually, I would leave that data solution here but today I’m a little past that and will be blogging more about the correlations, and try to find statistical relevance in these measured values.
More about HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data
HCAHPS Hospital Survey data has a little bit of metadata too.
As of May 19, 2018, HCAHPS Hospital Survey Data has been over 20,000 downloads and over 166,000 views.
The row count is a staggering 266,000 rows by 23 columns. Learn more about this dataset here. It’s a list of hospital ratings for the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). HCAHPS is a national, standardized survey of hospital patients about their experiences during a recent inpatient hospital stay.
Hello readers, yay a blog post. A new post on a new domain.
Welcome to TylerGarrett.com and thanks for reading my first new post on a new domain. TylerGarrett.com is a free resource and a personal blog founded by Tyler.
A new post usually consists of a little context about what you want your blog to be about.
I believe a few topics will suffice.
Technology Demos and walkthroughs.
Growth Hacks and safe SEO tips.
Photography and free stock images.
Music, Mixes, Remixes, etc.
Using data and data visualization to discuss topics.
Guest blogs.
Interviews.
New posts and new domains moving forward…
My new posts will be about tech, photos, music, growth hacks, and data related to these topics.
My family saying hello from a bluebonnet field in Texas.
Guest blogs will be a place where I will beg some genius to say a few words on a topic or two.
An interview will be a similar case. I’m going to bug people I meet while traveling to answer a few questions on the fly or hopefully people will use the website to sign up for interviews and I will stop bugging strangers.
What’s your next new post going to be? [Nerd Alert]
I’ve been quietly journaling offline for the past few months, mostly technology related, as I’m learning Alteryx’s platform, and boy I’m excited about the future posts too.
Just last week I learned how to use APIs without programming and it wasn’t complex.
So hopefully I will be writing about API usage, a user-friendly guide to using APIs, and sharing the data I’m able to grab.
Next post ideas, I need an idea!
Getting idea’s for posts can come in a lot of fashions, like writing about a hotel you stayed in, taking photos, and giving it a rating.
Another idea is using an automated system to give you ideas.
Really glad I sold this thing. Optimizing my car purchase and over estimating everything helped me get to where I am today.
I needed to optimize my purchase fast.
July 17, 2013 – I decided to get out of my Truck and into a 135i bmw.
4 wrecks in 2 years.
Never once my fault.
3 times people ran into it while it was parked.
Nearly 5k per accident, lucky one covered a couple.
135i 09, traded for a Prius, people laughed at me.
But now I own a home and paid down most of my student loans, who’s laughing meow.
haha, the banks probably.
Son, this is a blog to you! Having a fancy thang is cool but end of day, does it help you? This blog is to explain how I logically worked my way through being a child, and growing up a little bit. They didn’t write a book for 32, so I do hope you are blogging at this point in your life, I hope you realize it’s okay to say fuck social media, and I hope you enjoy learning as much as I did when i was 32.
The care would sorta equalize over 80mph, and pushing it around 140mph it felt like we were driving roughly 50mph…
Of course curbs and cars come at you a tiny bit faster but I thought it was one of the coolest experiences of my Dallas North Tollway Lives…
Rest easy little bmw.
Son, maybe buying an expensive car seems cool, feels like a great idea, but when you consider the logic of your monthly expenses…
here’s something I made in excel a few years ago.
Understanding when to optimize, when to spend, and knowing how expensive things are is key. Notice I was spending $550 per month for rent and my student loans are $300 a month.
Getting my monthly total down to $1,380, was better than spending 5k every few months because someone wanted to run into my little sports car.
Pretend you are you, 15 years from now, will this car be that relevant?
Or just cool today?
Hybrid from BMW
Moving to a hybrid helped me save money in gas, gas was expensive these years and for what it’s worth, keeping my monthly expense in gas low, allowed me to live in a nice area.
I had to drive more than others but I was able to drive more and it not be a problem. It allowed me to drive and take a snowboarding trip, when I barely had much money, considering how expensive everything is in America… having a few bucks here and there, is a big deal.
If I can pass any advice, moving from hybrid from BMW, … Consider opportunity costs, and if having a nice vehicle will increase your profits tomorrow, get nice vehicle, it works for hiphop artists and real estate agents and for me..
I work from home, I’m the nerdy person who executives enjoy talking with about advanced technology, and that doesn’t mean you will be cool in your Hybrid, not like me!
The gas savings alone was enough to afford another vehicle. If that doesn’t explain how expensive gas can become, consider forecasting, running sum of values never hurt anyone.
