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CMU Capstone: Systems Synthesis Project

As part of the final semester of my Master in Information Systems Management (MISM) program at Carnegie Mellon University, I was placed randomly in a group and assigned a real-world client to work with on a data-heavy project. Our client was the healthcare company Highmark, who asked us to use their data to evaluate the performance of their "pay-for-value" arrangement between insurers and providers (see the proposal document).

An overview of our findings can be seen in the poster, or for more in-depth information check out the presentation.

My role involved primarily data science/machine learning tasks, including tasks and tools such as:

• exploratory data analysis
• visualization with matplotlib/seaborn/etc
• multiple linear regression
• LASSO regression
• dimensionality reduction (using PCA)
• clustering
• statistical evaluation (correlation, significance, etc)

The data and certain other documents have been removed for privacy reasons.