diff --git a/pages/_app.js b/pages/_app.js index d45638e6..bd972c57 100644 --- a/pages/_app.js +++ b/pages/_app.js @@ -141,11 +141,10 @@ export default function MyApp(props) { Skip to content - Help + {/* Help */} Team - GitHub - - Collective + + Volunteer Twitter Instagram @@ -166,7 +165,7 @@ export default function MyApp(props) { Handbook GitHub - Collective + Team Chat Twitter diff --git a/pages/join.md b/pages/join.md deleted file mode 100644 index 47bb8a49..00000000 --- a/pages/join.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Join us! -description: How to get involved. ---- - -{% section .value-props %} - -There are many ways to join our team, get involved, sponsor us, or work with us in any capacity you see fit: - -# Google Summer of Code - -To work with us through Google Summer of Code, please email us at hello@onefact.org with the following: - -* your CV -* answers to the following questions: - - Why are you interested in working on this with us? - - What other commitments do you have besides working with us on this, and how can we support you in meeting those commitments during the program? - - How have you stayed organized and communicated during other projects such as this? What should collaborators know about your preferred working or communication styles and tools? -* which open source projects you are interested in working on, for example from this list: https://onefact.org/project-ideas -* a set of milestones you believe are feasible to complete during the program, and what the resources and support you would need to complete the milestones - -Getting feedback on your submission: you can email us at hello@onefact.org with your draft and we can help you understand if it is feasible. Alternatively, you can also join our chat room: https://onefact.zulipchat.com and ask for help completing your proposal there. Asking for help is encouraged, and the best applicants usually decide to ask for help! - -{% section %} diff --git a/pages/volunteer.md b/pages/volunteer.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..52b32ad3 --- /dev/null +++ b/pages/volunteer.md @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +title: Volunteer with us! +description: How to get involved. +--- + +{% section .value-props %} + +We are actively recruiting volunteers to help with Payless Health who have experience with python, web development, and data science. + +{% endsection %} + +**If you are interested in making an impact with your data science skills, please reach out to us at [hello@onefact.org](mailto:hello@onefact.org) with your CV and a few sentences about what experience you have with python and web development.** + +## What we need help with + +* We need help **making visualizations and building dashboards** for hospitals in your area of the United States. Here is an example: [https://beta.payless.health/examples/mount-sinai.html](https://beta.payless.health/examples/mount-sinai.html). We have collected the hospital price sheets from 4,000+ hospitals [here](https://data.payless.health/#hospital_price_transparency/) so far, and we need help building dashboards for each hospital -- feel free to choose one in your city! +* This can involve **writing python code**, such as this [Jupyter notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/onefact/data_build_tool_payless.health/blob/main/notebooks/230809-mount-sinai.ipynb) which shows how the price data was retrieved from the hospita's website and processed for the visualization. +* This can also involve **writing frontend code** to visualize the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of prices at every hospital. (Code [here](https://github.com/onefact/beta.payless.health/blob/main/docs/examples/mount-sinai.md) for the demo page.) +* We also need help with **data engineering** using `dbt` (data build tool) to help process the data and make it available for the dashboards. (Code [here](https://colab.research.google.com/github/onefact/datathinking.org-codespace/blob/main/notebooks/princeton-university/week-1-visualizing-33-million-phone-calls-in-new-york-city.ipynb) with an example from our training that shows how to visualize over 100 million datapoints on your laptop!) + +Throughout, we use **large language models** such as ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, and have trained hundreds of students from a variety of backgrounds in state of the art practices in software engineering, analytics, and data science using this approach. The datasets we use are in the hundreds of gigabytes to petabytes of data, so this can **accelerate your career** and build your portfolio alongside having an impact. Contributors of ours frequently give talks at national and international conferences about our work, and collaborations can result in peer-reviewed publications if this may be of interest. + +We have worked with high school students, college students, graduate students, and faculty from a variety of backgrounds, some with more programming experience, and others with less. + +## How this is having an impact + +We are working with policymakers and journalists to help them understand the price of healthcare in the United States. We are also working with employers to help them understand how to improve health outcomes and reduce cost for their member populations using our open source code and data. + +**More background** is in the talks we have given in the past year about this work: + +* At the [NYC School of Data](https://nycsodata23.sched.com/event/1JUZc) in March 2023: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy5x3vnyFsk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy5x3vnyFsk) +* At an NIH conference: [https://bit.ly/onefact-keynote](https://bit.ly/onefact-keynote) +* On the Liberty, Equality, Data podcast: [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/liberty-equality-data/id1536859985?i=1000565539011](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/liberty-equality-data/id1536859985?i=1000565539011) +* On the Consumer Choice Radio podcast: [https://omny.fm/shows/consumerchoiceradio/ep160-open-sourcing-healthcare-pricing-w-dr-jaan-a](https://omny.fm/shows/consumerchoiceradio/ep160-open-sourcing-healthcare-pricing-w-dr-jaan-a) +* In Jaan's fundraising page: [https://www.onefact.org/five-boro-bike-tour/jaan](https://www.onefact.org/five-boro-bike-tour/jaan) +* In a recent video for a grant: [https://youtu.be/hmpBTQb-ehc](https://youtu.be/hmpBTQb-ehc) + +We have also run an advertising campaign in NYC using this data; here is an example ad on the LinkNYC booth system near Times Square and Penn Station: [https://www.onefact.org/images/five-boro-bike-tour/payless.health-linknyc-campaign.jpg](https://www.onefact.org/images/five-boro-bike-tour/payless.health-linknyc-campaign.jpg) + +Here is a screenshot of the example dashboard of hospital prices for a large hospital in NYC with $2bn in revenue -- this shows 106,000+ prices ([https://beta.payless.health/examples/mount-sinai.html](https://beta.payless.health/examples/mount-sinai.html)): + +![Example dashboard](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5317244/262161840-0a506b94-8d21-435e-b834-dca0541ea157.png) + +![LinkNYC ad](images/five-boro-bike-tour/payless.health-linknyc-campaign.jpg) + + +