Feature engineering is an important step in analytics. Some may say this is THE most important step. I typically spend between 50-70% of the time of an analytic exercise on feature engineering. What is it: In the predictive modeling context, features are basically elements of the data. E.g. age of patients, diagnoses and procedures patients have had … Continue reading Feature engineering for health analytics
Category: SQL
An intro to SQL – your key to databases
In this post, I show you the core SQL commands that will address a lot of the data management work you will do as a health data analyst. If you work with data in a large organization that has lots of it, you probably use SQL. Put another way, knowing SQL will open the door … Continue reading An intro to SQL – your key to databases

