Aug 6, 2015
Best & Worst California Hospitals for Surgery
If you had to pick a local hospital for a major surgery, how would you know which one? What if you had a map of hospitals with their grades by surgical procedure?
This is (almost) it, with the help of the California Health & Human Services Open Data Portal. While the following map gives a pretty interesting idea, it mainly illustrates the potential of government-run open data portals. Inspired by the great folks over at Hack for LA and Code for America.
https://gchung.shinyapps.io/CAhospitals
The R code is quite simple as I elected to run only the most basic statistics to get an illustrative output. If there is enough interest, I will continue to develop it further.
