Camilo Arias

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

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

    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 cases account for just five percent of…

  • Could Phone Data Reveal a Person’s Wealth?

    Could Phone Data Reveal a Person’s Wealth?

    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 live, and their economic status. As the United Nations Population Fund puts it, “without…