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Published inJan 2018
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Nataraj Dasgupta
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Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of advanced analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years, and has worked in the technical and analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank, and Purdue Pharma. At Purdue Pharma, Nataraj led the data science division, where he developed the company's award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of Associate Director, working with high-frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the foreign exchange trading division of the bank.
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The CMS Open Payments Portal


In this section, we will begin developing our application for CMS Open Payments.

The Packt Data Science VM contains all the necessary software for this tutorial. To download the VM, please refer to Chapter 3The Analytics Toolkit.

Downloading the CMS Open Payments data

The CMS Open Payments data is available directly as a web-based download from the CMS website. We'll download the data using the Unix wget utility, but first we have to register with the CMS website to get our own API key:

  1. Go to https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov and click on the Sign In link at the top-right of the page:

Homepage of CMS OpenPayments

 Click on Sign Up:

Sign-Up Page on CMS OpenPayments

Enter your information and click on the Create My Account button:

Sign-Up Form for CMS OpenPayments

 Sign In to your account:

Signing into CMS OpenPayments

Click on Manage under Packt Developer's Applications. Note that Applications here refers to apps that you may create that will query data available on the...

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Practical Big Data Analytics
Published in: Jan 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781783554393

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Nataraj Dasgupta

Nataraj Dasgupta is the vice president of advanced analytics at RxDataScience Inc. Nataraj has been in the IT industry for more than 19 years, and has worked in the technical and analytics divisions of Philip Morris, IBM, UBS Investment Bank, and Purdue Pharma. At Purdue Pharma, Nataraj led the data science division, where he developed the company's award-winning big data and machine learning platform. Prior to Purdue, at UBS, he held the role of Associate Director, working with high-frequency and algorithmic trading technologies in the foreign exchange trading division of the bank.
Read more about Nataraj Dasgupta