# 2018 IEEE BHI and BSN Data Challenge
This project contains slides and sample notebooks for the 2018 IEEE BHI-BSN Challenge, which explored the following question:
> Are patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) on a weekend more likely to die in the hospital than those admitted on a weekday?
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## Project contents
- Slides: Folder containing slides presented at the conference workshop, as well as a presentation template for challenge participants.
- notebooks: Folder containing a simple example analysis in R and Python notebooks.
## Challenge data
The MIMIC-III dataset can be found at:
https://doi.org/10.13026/C2XW26
A demo version of the dataset is openly available at:
https://doi.org/10.13026/C2HM2Q