This site under reconstruction.
This past week I’ve been off on vacation with the hope of getting a lot of stuff done: lots of art, revamping my website, revamping LinkedIn, educational stuff, and learning some stuff on data and visualization. Of course, I always plan for more than I can actually do. I have not done nearly as much…
This is a very short post. I just wanted to say what I’m reading now. I’m reading a book right now, Good Charts by Scott Berinato. It’s a beautiful book that discusses the theory of what makes a good chart and how to go about making good charts. I’m in the section talking about the…
This will be a short post but I just wanted to celebrate. I may have gone overboard with the genius thing but I feel like one! My ACA XML file went through! So the only thing we have to do is resolve the name/SSN errors, of which there are 40. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve…
In the last post I wrote about messy data where some people shared the same SSN or some had 2 SSN. How about where some had NO SSN? This is coming from what I think is a large healthcare insurer and yet the data is sloppy. Maybe I’m being too harsh or unrealistic? I’ve had…
“Some people have 2 social security numbers or others share the same security number.” My boss just stared silently at me like, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” While I’m waiting to move onto the next stage of the ACA electronic filing, I’m working on the reconciliation process our broker goes through and boy, is it…
For those of you who generated the healthcare data via Excel, the biggest hurdle in sending the data electronically via the UI channel is figuring out how to convert your excel data into xml. Excel has a way of doing this conversion, but only if the schema is simple. Unfortunately, the government’s schema is not simple…
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