The purpose of this assignment is to get you to think about what types of problems you will be solving in your career using data. In this assignment, you choose a topic and the associated problem to solve. You will solve the problem throughout the rest of this course.
Select a topic with your data set from the
Signature Assignment Topics and Scenarios
Answer the following questions using at least 175 words:
- What topic did you choose?
- Why does it interest you?
- What do you hope to discover in your analysis?
Health Services and Nursing Scenario Topic 1 Predicting Expected Medicare Payers Scenario 1 Review data of the expected payers that used Medicare 2003 to 2014. Predict the percentage of expected payers that will use Medicare in 2018. Year County Zip Code Medicare payers
2003 Humbolt 90001 35612
2004 Humbolt 90001 37412
2005 Humbolt 90001 39841
2006 Humbolt 90001 40123
2007 Humbolt 90001 43122
2008 Humbolt 90001 44125
2009 Humbolt 90001 51229
2010 Humbolt 90001 59748
2011 Humbolt 90001 57008
2012 Humbolt 90001 56727
2013 Humbolt 90001 57985
2014 Humbolt 90001 63123