Tutorial - associative rules mining with CMS data

This tutorial will implement an interface for accessing rules created using the Apriori Package in R.

We'll be downloading data from the CMS OpenPayments website. The site hosts data on payments made to physicians and hospitals by companies:

The site provides various ways of downloading data. Users can select the dataset of interest and download it manually. In our case, we will download the data using one of the Web-based APIs that is available to all users.

Downloading the data

The dataset can be downloaded either at the Unix terminal (in the virtual machine) or by accessing the site directly from the browser. If you are downloading the dataset in the Virtual Machine, run the following command in the terminal window:

time wget -O cms2016_2.csv 'https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/resource/vq63-hu5i.csv?$query=select Physician_First_Name as firstName,Physician_Last_Name as lastName,Recipient_City as city,Recipient_State as state,Submitting_Applicable_Manufacturer_or_Applicable_GPO_Name...