Analysing Physician-Patient Referral Network Topology.
This is the associated repository for our preprint on Characterizing Physician Referral Networks with Ricci Curvature. We analyze large scale networks of physician referrals across the US using discrete curvature and persistent homology. Our data, displayed using Datasette, is publically available at:
https://apparent.topology.rocks/
Our current codebase reflects the materials used to perform the analysis included in the manuscript. Major changes coming soon (see PR#2 for drafted changes) that will restructure the codebase to focus on interacting with our online dataset.
It is recommended to use the poetry package
manager. With poetry installed, setting up the repository works like
this:
$ poetry install
Since poetry creates its own virtual environment, it is easiest to
interact with scripts by calling poetry shell.