Signature Assignment

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