Healthcare Lobbying Data Extraction Algorithm:
An application of data mining techniques to explore congressional lobbying records for patterns in pediatric special interest expenditures prior to the Affordable Care Act
Authors: Elizabeth Harrison1,2, Caitlin Dreisbach1,3, Nada Basit1,4, Jessica Keim-Malpass3
Affiliations
- Data Science Institute, University of Virginia, 328 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903.
- School of Medicine, University of Virginia, 200 Jeanette Lancaster Way, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903.
- School of Nursing, University of Virginia, 225 Jeanette Lancaster Way, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903.
- Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, 351 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903.
Corresponding author: Caitlin Dreisbach, 225 Jeanette Lancaster Way Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-3388, (434) 987-5756, cnd2y@virginia.edu.
Keywords: lobbying, data mining, data science, Affordable Care Act, pediatrics.
In preparation for: Frontiers in Public Health, Public Health Policy as a ‘data report’ submission