R Markdown Report on Medicare Part D Drug Prescription & Overdose

In this project, I created a brief report on patterns of Medicare Part D drug prescriptions and fatal drug overdoses in 2016. The state-level summary of drug prescriptions data were retrieved from data.cms.gov. The fatal drug overdoses data were retrieved from CDC.

The report was created using R Markdown and then published to rpubs.com, a free web publishing service sponsored by RStudio. The image below is a screenshot of the report. Please see the full report here. In the next blog, I’ll create a shiny app to fully explore the data patterns. See my source code here.