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Education: Upper Darby High School Penn State - BS, Health Policy and Administration University of Michigan, MA, Economics; PhD, Economics and Health Services Organization and Policy Current functions: Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (July 1996 – Present) Teaches a wide array of cost-effectiveness and economics courses: an introductory online course to cost-effectiveness research and evaluating the quality of studies that we read and use for policy and treatment guidelines; a two-part course on performing cost-effectiveness analyses; an online course on obesity economics; and an introductory health economics course on line; an advanced health economics topics course in class Career: Recent Publications: Frick KD, Kymes SM. For Full list of Publications: Recognition:
The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization
14.73x: The Challenges of Global Poverty (Spring 2013)
This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, and are hopeful that economists might have something useful to say about this challenge. The questions we will take up include: Is extreme poverty a thing of the past? What is economic life like when living under a dollar per day? Are the poor always hungry? Prerequisites: This course is intended to be an introduction to the issues of global poverty, as conceptualized by leading economists and political scientists. That said, these prerequisites are not critical to understanding and learning from the course. Professors Banerjee and Duflo, together with Prof.
This site publishes high-touch, time-intensive data visualizations (and has a business that sustains it)
Over 7,000 artists played in the New York City area in 2013. Only 21 of those later made it, really made it, headlining at a venue with an over 3,000-person capacity — among them, bigger names like Chance the Rapper, X Ambassadors, Sam Smith, and Sylvan Esso. I learned this sort of random but fascinating tidbit from a data visualization titled “The Unlikely Odds of Making it Big,” from the site The Pudding. The Pudding is the home to high-touch, painstakingly crafted data visualizations — what the site calls “visual essays” — that are distinct in their obsessive complexity over points of cultural curiosity. (Other things I’ve discovered browsing The Pudding’s interactives: that the town where I live is probably not the microbrew capital of the U.S., that there’s pretty strong evidence that NBA refs favor the home team, that the song “No Diggity” by Blackstreet is irrefutably timeless, at least based on Spotify play counts, compared to its 1990s peers.) “We’re all over the map.
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Thank You for a Successful Haiti Mission Dear OID friends and Partners, We want to thank you for a very successful mission. I have not received the full report but I know you have gone about Haiti doing good and for this we at Grace International are so thankful! Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the mouths and teeth better off today than ever. Thank you for all the bodies healed. Haiti Mission OID will be returning to Haiti on March 25-30, 2013 to provide humanitarian services to the tent city community at Grace Village, in the Carrefour and Lamentin districts of Port-au-Prince. Interested persons are asked to contact Dr. Estimated Cost You will need the following: Travel ID: Valid PassportVaccines recommended: Tetanus, Hep A & B, Typhoid and Malaria Assignments: Registration, counting meds, routing patients, counseling, direct patient care, security etc. Tentative Schedule
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Agroindustria fue el segundo ministerio que adhirió al Decreto 117/2016 que creó el Plan de Apertura de Datos con el objetivo de garantizar el derecho de acceso a la información pública. A la fecha, ya son 3 los ministerios adheridos: Energía, Agroindustria y Justicia. En la plataforma se puede encontrar información relevante sobre producción, comercio, inversión, precios y padrones de todas las actividades agroindustriales del país. Todos los datasets son producidos por la Secretaría de Mercados Agroindustriales a través de la Subsecretaría de Información y Estadística Pública, y se descargan en formato .csv. En algunos casos se puede acceder a información histórica, de períodos de tiempo que inician en 1969 y están actualizados a hoy. A continuación, presentamos un ejemplo sencillo de los análisis que se pueden aplicar a los dataset publicados por el ministerio. Al analizar las diversos datos y variables que ofrece el portal, se pueden encontrar algunos datos curiosos: Seguir leyendo
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