Heritage offers 3 million chump change for Monkeys

My perspective is life is not fair, and if someone offers me 1 mill a year so they make 1 bill a year, I would still take it, especially if it leads to better human beings and better humanity on this planet. Health care isnt toothpaste.

Unless there are even more fine print changes involved- there exist several players in the pharma sector who do build and deploy models internally for denying claims or prospecting medical doctors with freebies, but they might just get caught with the new open data movement

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A note from KDNuggets-

Heritage Health Prizereleased a second set of data on May 4. They also recently modified their ruleswhich now demand complete exclusivity and seem to disallow use of other tools (emphasis mine – Gregory PS)

21. LICENSE
By registering for the Competition, each Entrant (a) grants to Sponsor and its designees a worldwide, exclusive (except with respect to Entrant) , sub-licensable (through multiple tiers), transferable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to use, not use, reproduce, distribute (through multiple tiers), create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale and import the entry and the algorithm used to produce the entry, as well as any other algorithm, data or other information whatsoever developed or produced at any time using the data provided to Entrant in this Competition (collectively, the “Licensed Materials”), in any media now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, without further approval by or payment to Entrant (the “License”) and
(b) represents that he/she/it has the unrestricted right to grant the License.
Entrant understands and agrees that the License is exclusive except with respect to Entrant: Entrant may use the Licensed Materials solely for his/her/its own patient management and other internal business purposes but may not grant or otherwise transfer to any third party any rights to or interests in the Licensed Materials whatsoever.

This has lead to a call to boycott the competition by Tristan, who also notes that academics cannot publish their results without prior written approval of the Sponsor.

Anthony Goldbloom, CEO of Kaggle, emailed the HHP participants on May 4

HPN have asked me to pass on the following message: “The Heritage Provider Network is sponsoring the Heritage Health Prize to spur innovation and creative thinking in healthcare. HPN, however, is a medical group and must retain an exclusive license to the algorithms created using its data so as to ensure that the algorithms are used responsibly, and are only used to provide better health care to patients and not for improper purposes.
Put simply, while the competition hopes to spur innovation, this is not a competition regarding movie ratings or chess results. We hope that the clarifications we have made to the Rules and the FAQ adequately address your concerns and look forward to your participation in the competition.”

What do you think? Will the exclusive license prevent you from participating?

$3.2M in prizes for predicting hospitalization (revolutionanalytics.com)

Heritage prize= 3mill now open

I am still angry with THE netflix for 1 mill I lost out. No sweat! this time the money is 3 times as much, it is legit, and yes baby you can change the world, make it a better place and get rich.! see details below-http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp/Data

Information

Data

Submissions

Forum

Leaderboard

HERITAGE HEALTH PRIZE DATA FILES

DATA FILES (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)

HHP_release1.zip (7.28 mb)HHP_release2.zip (46.58 mb)SampleEntry.csv (1.61 mb)

You must accept this competition’s rules before you’ll be able to download data files.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The information provided below is intended only to provide general guidance to participants in the Heritage Health Prize Competition and is subject to the Competition Official Rules. Any capitalized term not defined below is defined in the Competition Official Rules. Please consult the Competition Official Rules for complete details.

Heritage Provider Network is providing Competition Entrants with deidentified member data collected during a forty-eight month period that is allocated among three data sets (the “Data Sets”). Competition Entrants will use the Data Sets to develop and test their algorithms for accurately predicting the number of days that the members will spend in a hospital (inpatient or emergency room visit) during the 12-month period following the Data Set cut-off date.

HHP_release2.zip contains the latest files, so you can ignore HHP_release1.zip. SampleEntry.CSV shows you how an entry should look.

Data Sets will be released to Entrants after registration on the Website according to the following schedule:

April 4, 2011 Claims Table – Y1 and DaysInHospital Table – Y2

May 4, 2011
All other Data Sets except Labs Table and Rx Table

From https://www.kaggle.com/

The $3 million Heritage Health Prize opens to entries

It’s been one month since the launch of the Heritage Health Prize. The prize has attracted some great publicity, receiving coverage from the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Slate andForbes.

By now, people have had a good chance to poke around the first portion of the data. Now the fun starts! HPN have released two more years’-worth of data, set the accuracy threshold and are opening up the competition to entries. The data are available from the Heritage Health Prize page. Good luck to all participants!

The Deloitte/FIDE Chess Ratings Competition results

The Deloitte/FIDE Chess Ratings Competition attracted one of the strongest fields ever seen in a Kaggle Competition. The competition attracted 189 teams, ranging from chess ratings experts to Netflix Prize winners. As Jeff Sonas wrote on the Kaggle blog last week, the competition has far exceeded his expectations. A big congratulations the provisional winner, Tim Salimans, an econometrician at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. We look forward to reading about the approaches used by top performers on the Kaggle blog. We also look forward to the results of the FIDE prize, which could see the introduction of a new chess ratings system.

ICDAR 2011 Competition Results

The ICDAR 2011 competition also finished recently. The competiiton required participants to develop an algorithm that correctly matched handwriting samples. The winners were Lewis Griffin and Andrew Newell from the University College London who achieved Kaggle’s first ever perfect score by managing to match every sample correctly! Andrew and Lewis have posted a description of their winning method on the Kaggle blog.

Revolution R Enterprise

Since R is the most popular language used by Kaggle members, the Revolution Analytics team is making Revolution R Enterprise (the pre-eminent commercial version of R) available free of charge to Kaggle members. Revolution R Enterprise has several advantages over standard R, including the ability to seemlessly handle larger datasets. To get your free copy, visit http://info.revolutionanalytics.com/Kaggle.html.

Kaggle-in-Class

As many of you know, Kaggle offers a free platform, Kaggle-in-Class, for instructors who want to host competitions for their students. For those interested in hearing more about the use of Kaggle-in-Class as a teaching tool, Susan Holmes and Nelson Ray from Stanford University share their experience in a webinar organized by the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education.

Data Mining to change the world of health care (decisionstats.com)

High Performance Analytics

Marry Big Data Analytics to High Performance Computing, and you get the buzzword of this season- High Performance Analytics.

It basically consists of Parallelized code to run in parallel on custom hardware, in -database analytics for speed, and cloud computing /high performance computing environments. On an operational level, it consists of software (as in analytics) partnering with software (as in databases, Map reduce, Hadoop) plus some hardware (HP or IBM mostly). It is considered a high margin , highly profitable, business with small number of deals compared to say desktop licenses.

As per HPC Wire- which is a great tool/newsletter to keep updated on HPC , SAS Institute has been busy on this front partnering with EMC Greenplum and TeraData (who also acquired SAS Partner AsterData to gain a much needed foot in the MR/SQL space) Continue reading “High Performance Analytics”

Data Mining to change the world of health care

http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp

Heritage Health Prize, a $3 million competition to predict who will go to hospital and for how long.

So as not to overwhelm anyone, we will be releasing the data in three waves. Today’s launch allows people to register and download the first instalment, which includes enough data for people to start trying out models. It includes claims data from Y1, information on members and the details of hospitalizations recorded in Y2.

The next instalment will be released on May 4 and will involve the release a more comprehensive dataset, including claims for later years as well as the test dataset against which entries will be judged. It is at this point that we will open up the competition to entries, reveal the performance threshold and begin posting the leaderboard.

Finally, the last release happens on June 4 and will include some ancillary data of prescriptions and lab tests.

Kaggle members don’t sign up again. To register, simply login and accept the rules before downloading the data.

Finally the Twitter hashtag for the competition is #drflix. Help spread the word.

http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp

Heritage Provider Network Announces the Heritage Health Prize Will Include $230,000 in Progress Prizes (prnewswire.com)
$3.2M in prizes for predicting hospitalization (revolutionanalytics.com)
Heritage Health Prize: Is $3 million enough to improve the U.S. health care system? (slate.com)

Trying out Google Prediction API from R

So I saw the news at NY R Meetup and decided to have a go at Prediction API Package (which first started off as a blog post at

http://onertipaday.blogspot.com/2010/11/r-wrapper-for-google-prediction-api.html

1)My OS was Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook

Ubuntu has a slight glitch plus workaround for installing the RCurl package on which the Google Prediction API is dependent- you need to first install this Ubuntu package for RCurl to install libcurl4-gnutls-dev

Once you install that using Synaptic,

Simply start R

2) Install Packages rjson and Rcurl using install.packages and choosing CRAN

Since GooglePredictionAPI is not yet on CRAN

3) Download that package from

https://code.google.com/p/google-prediction-api-r-client/downloads/detail?name=googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz&can=2&q=

You need to copy this downloaded package to your “first library ” folder

When you start R, simply run

.libPaths()[1]

and thats the folder you copy the GooglePredictionAPI package you downloaded.

5) Now the following line works

Under R prompt,

> install.packages("googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")

6) Uploading data to Google Storage using the GUI (rather than gs util)

Just go to https://sandbox.google.com/storage/

and thats the Google Storage manager

Notes on Training Data-

Use a csv file

The first column is the score column (like 1,0 or prediction score)

There are no headers- so delete headers from data file and move the dependent variable to the first column (Note I used data from the kaggle contest for R package recommendation at

http://kaggle.com/R?viewtype=data )

6) The good stuff:

Once you type in the basic syntax, the first time it will ask for your Google Credentials (email and password)

It then starts showing you time elapsed for training.

Now you can disconnect and go off (actually I got disconnected by accident before coming back in a say 5 minutes so this is the part where I think this is what happened is why it happened, dont blame me, test it for yourself) –

and when you come back (hopefully before token expires) you can see status of your request (see below)

> library(rjson)
> library(RCurl)
Loading required package: bitops
> library(googlepredictionapi)
> my.model <- PredictionApiTrain(data="gs://numtraindata/training_data")
The request for training has sent, now trying to check if training is completed
Training on numtraindata/training_data: time:2.09 seconds
Training on numtraindata/training_data: time:7.00 seconds

Note I changed the format from the URL where my data is located- simply go to your Google Storage Manager and right click on the file name for link address ( https://sandbox.google.com/storage/numtraindata/training_data.csv)

to gs://numtraindata/training_data (that kind of helps in any syntax error)

8) From the kind of high level instructions at https://code.google.com/p/google-prediction-api-r-client/, you could also try this on a local file

Usage

## Load googlepredictionapi and dependent libraries
library(rjson)
library(RCurl)
library(googlepredictionapi)

## Make a training call to the Prediction API against data in the Google Storage.
## Replace MYBUCKET and MYDATA with your data.
my.model <- PredictionApiTrain(data="gs://MYBUCKET/MYDATA")

## Alternatively, make a training call against training data stored locally as a CSV file.
## Replace MYPATH and MYFILE with your data.
my.model <- PredictionApiTrain(data="MYPATH/MYFILE.csv")

At the time of writing my data was still getting trained, so I will keep you posted on what happens.

An R interface to the Google Prediction API (revolutionanalytics.com)
Google Prediction Goes to the Movies (technoverseblog.com)
11 new APIs: Google Predictions, Amazon User Management (programmableweb.com)
R at Google (r-bloggers.com)
Google API Console Opens Up Millions of Queries Daily (programmableweb.com)
Canonical Design Team: So, you want to provide an API for the world to use? (design.canonical.com)

PAWCON -This week in London

Watch out for the twitter hash news on PAWCON and the exciting agenda lined up. If your in the City- you may want to just drop in

http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/london/2010/agenda.php#day1-7

Disclaimer- PAWCON has been a blog partner with Decisionstats (since the first PAWCON ). It is vendor neutral and features open source as well proprietary software, as well case studies from academia and Industry for a balanced view.

Little birdie told me some exciting product enhancements may be in the works including a not yet announced R plugin 😉 and the latest SAS product using embedded analytics and Dr Elder’s full day data mining workshop.

Citation-

http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/london/2010/agenda.php#day1-7

Monday November 15, 2010
All conference sessions take place in Edward 5-7

8:00am-9:00am

Registration, Coffee and Danish
Room: Albert Suites

9:00am-9:50am

Keynote
Five Ways Predictive Analytics Cuts Enterprise Risk

All business is an exercise in risk management. All organizations would benefit from measuring, tracking and computing risk as a core process, much like insurance companies do.

Predictive analytics does the trick, one customer at a time. This technology is a data-driven means to compute the risk each customer will defect, not respond to an expensive mailer, consume a retention discount even if she were not going to leave in the first place, not be targeted for a telephone solicitation that would have landed a sale, commit fraud, or become a “loss customer” such as a bad debtor or an insurance policy-holder with high claims.

In this keynote session, Dr. Eric Siegel will reveal:

Five ways predictive analytics evolves your enterprise to reduce risk
Hidden sources of risk across operational functions
What every business should learn from insurance companies
How advancements have reversed the very meaning of fraud
Why “man + machine” teams are greater than the sum of their parts for

enterprise decision support

Speaker: Eric Siegel, Ph.D., Program Chair, Predictive Analytics World

April 4, 2011	Claims Table – Y1 and DaysInHospital Table – Y2
May 4, 2011	All other Data Sets except Labs Table and Rx Table

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