Yll Agimi

Yll Agimi

Data Scientist | Epidemiologist

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About Me

I'm a health services epidemiologist with about 10 years experience in studying patterns of injury and health care use among civilians and military populations. Currently I'm working on large cohort data, looking at care patterns and pathways, predictors of visits, misdiagnoses and such fun stuff. I also spend some time modeling the impact of state policies on injuries among teens , the elderly and military.

These days I often find myself at the intersection of data management and data science whipping EHR, billing, HR data into shape for inferential statistics and modeling. Some days are better than others!

I like a few things, like Home Depot, the best place to get chat-up paint. I also participate in the DC startup, big data and data viz groups.

Latest Projects

H2H Voting Comparator C-1000

A web based tool that compares, head-to-head (H2H), the voting records of US Senators or House Representatives.

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H2H Voting Comparator C-1000, is a simple to use tool, that allows any two Senators or House Representatives to be compared. It provides a total tally of votes cast, number and percent of votes cast in agreement between the two and provides a list of bills where Senators or House Representatives agree or disagree. Also, the tool provides details on each Congressional member, on their membership in Committees or Subcommittees as well as providing a simple tracker of recently introduced bills as well as recently voted bills. The H2H comparison tool allows the public, journalists or other interested parties in better identifying shared interests between members of Congress, as well as identify areas/bills that they disagree. The tool allows to see whether members vote strictly on party line or whether areas of common interest exist.

Compare Sen. Rubio to Sen. Warren and find all bills where they agreed or disagreed.

Reach out if you'd like to use it for your site or service.

Hint: They agreed only 15.3% of the time 😔

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QuickQuestion

QuickQuestion - A fun app that helps you answer life's questions - both big and small

Questions are such a uniquely important part of our daily lives. We ask friends, family, neighbors, maybe complete strangers, about their thoughts, feelings, and opinions. Usually, so we can do something better, quicker, easier; or just to understand the world around us a little better. Because of this, we want to bring a real-time, community tool designed for delivering and organizing one’s questions and responses, whether it’s about a place to meet, school board elections, tonight’s season finale, or just which color shoes to buy. After putting the idea to paper, designing and working out the applications specs and user interface, we got this -

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Chronic Disease and Healthcare Cost Predictor

A few friends and I designed the Chronic Disease and Healthcare Cost Predictor tool as part of a HHS challenge. The tool is premised on the simple idea that if individuals are made immediately aware of their risk for disease and, importantly, the potential costs of disease, they may be compelled to make better choices with respect to their health. The tool uses data from the 2011 and 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to model the probability of disease based on characteristics and risk factors input by the user. The probability values are then used as inputs into a cost model dervied from the 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to provide the user with their potential healthcare costs.

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Work Experience

Lead Epidemiologist - Salient CRGT (2014 - Present)

I lead efforts in applying data science to extract insights and knowledge from DoD and DHA Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) clinical data to support programs and policies providing care to patients with TBI and their families. I lead our group in methodological design, data extraction, structuring, descriptive and inferential statistics and data visualization.

Lead Scientist - Booz Allen Hamilton (2013 - 2014)

At Booz Allen, I was an Associate with the Infrastructure and Military Health Account (IΑMH). I specialized in health services research and related assessments. My current engagements include some rather exciting work in the assessments of health service delivery.

Medical Surveillance Lead - Altarum Institute (2011 - 2013)

I served as an Epidemiology and Biostatistics Subject Matter Expert (SME) and provided expertise in epidemiological and statistical methods, devised methods and analyses as they relate to TBI.

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