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Data4Democracy / drug-spending

Project to understand pharmaceutical spending, currently focused on US government programs.
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Visualize/model relationship between lobbying expenditures and brand name prices #48

Closed jenniferthompson closed 6 years ago

jenniferthompson commented 7 years ago

We have data from OpenSecrets on lobbying expenditures from pharmaceutical companies, and keys are in progress to join this with Medicare Part D spending data (see issue #37). Once we can join these datasets, we'd like to see if there is a relationship between lobbying expenditures and Medicare costs for those companies' medications.

mallaham commented 7 years ago

I'm interested in this project :)

jenniferthompson commented 7 years ago

@mallaham you should have an invitation to join the D4D organization; once you do that I can assign you!

mallaham commented 7 years ago

done!

atamalu commented 7 years ago

I am interested in this project. Or really anything regarding drug lobbying expenditures

yanoak commented 7 years ago

would be happy to help with data visualisation work on this project.

andypicke commented 7 years ago

I'm interested in helping. Is the data ready to be modeled, or is there more data collection/tidying that needs to be done first?

jenniferthompson commented 7 years ago

Hi @atamalu, @yanoak and @andypicke! All the data we have cleaned and ready to go is in our repo on data.world. You're welcome to see what interests you there! We haven't gotten the keys for lobbying and Medicare ready, unfortunately. The code for lobbying vs manufacturer keys is in our repo here; if any of you would like to take a look and work on finishing up the keys we'd welcome that too.

andypicke commented 7 years ago

thanks @jenniferthompson . I'm going to start looking at some of the data, starting with 'spending_all_top100.csv' . Should I upload my notebook to the 'analysis-viz' folder?

jenniferthompson commented 7 years ago

@andypicke Definitely, under whichever language you're using (we have R/ and python/ so far). That would be great!

andypicke commented 7 years ago

@jenniferthompson - Is the best way to do that to fork, add my notebook, and then pull request? Sorry, haven't worked on collaborative git projects much before.

jenniferthompson commented 7 years ago

@andypicke Exactly! I hear you - D4D was my first major experience with git collaboration, and it's a great way to learn it. There's also a #github-help channel on the Slack team if you run into any trouble!

AbhijithReddy commented 6 years ago

Hi I have registered with D4D recently and even joined the slack channel. I'd like to work on a modelling model but as I am new would love to have some mentorship. Thanks in advance.