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Camilo Arias

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Using Machine Learning to Predict Mortality: Demystifying U.S. Healthcare Spending

May 13th, 2019 - Camilo Arias

Approximately one in every five dollars spent by Medicare is spent during a patient’s last twelve months of life, with most of this spending used to pay for inpatient medical care and physician costs. Despite taking up 20 percent of its budget, end-of-life cas... More »

Could Phone Data Reveal a Person’s Wealth?

April 16th, 2019 - Camilo Arias

The effective design, implementation and evaluation of public policies rely on accurate socioeconomic data. It would be impossible, for instance, to implement a poverty alleviation program without knowing who the relevant target populations are, where they liv... More »