Notes on `data_analysis/opi_prescribing_rates_fed_analysis_sharon.ipynb`

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Sharon (and others)

• Good work on analysis of patterns in the federal level data for opioid prescriptions

• I made some additions and comments in:

  • opi_prescribing_rates_fed_analysis_sharon.ipynb

• Key points

  • make sure to round numbers both in calculations but especially when you talk about them, 2 decimal places are sufficient for means and correlations etc.
  • it does seem like an interesting trend that as you move more west the prescription rate increases - I think this is worthy of further exploration
  • I included some ideas of plotting these data using the scatter plot but with long and lat as x & y or going to geopandas to get a us statemap.

• ALL for your data story one approach could be:

  1. opioid crisis - known national issue in last decade
  2. media coverage seems to be one factor (among others) in the decrease in prescriptions
  3. but this decrease is not uniform - state level patterns/differences
  4. rank of high and low states - perhaps pick a high and low (CT)
  5. focus on CT

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