This is the code for the Heritage Health Prize challenge:
http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp
evaluation:
http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp/Details/Evaluation
data description:
http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp/Data
forum:
http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/forums/default.aspx?g=topics&f=42


SETUP
1) Download data (http://www.heritagehealthprize.com/c/hhp/Data) and unzip in this directory as ./HHP_release1

2) Create directory ./working_data

3) run src/process.rb; it will create working_data/member_features.csv

4) choose your code for running the model, e.g. model_caret.R

5) ??

6) Profit!  ($3MM!)


OPTIONAL -- setup DB
You can load the source data into postgres, if you choose to browse the data that way.
1) createdb heritage_prize

2) create schema and load data using the SQL in src/sql/create_schema.sql