Friending by Numbers.

Friending by Numbers.

As the adage goes: “You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick how many”. Well, doesn’t sound quite right, but turns out it’s very true. It’s not your fault though, it’s just Dunbar’s Number. How many acquaintances can you...
Being A Data Guy, I Want To Help You

Being A Data Guy, I Want To Help You

The first thing you’ll realize as you start reading this: you already know infinitely more about the healthcare industry than I do. I not only admit this freely, but I think it’s an important distinction to be made. Furthermore, it’s one that might make my perspective...
Data Corruption, Data Corruption

Data Corruption, Data Corruption

I was an intern at the University of Chicago, barely awake after a long night of call in the ICU. As I was presenting a new admission from the prior evening to the attending, he mercifully stopped me in my tracks while I was relaying numbers from the ventilator and...