Judgment or settlement is an important consideration for professional reputation of doctors in malpractice lawsuits.

The project aim is to build a model for predicting the outcome of a malpractice suit: whether it will result in a settlement or judgment, using data from the National Practitioner Data Bank

The goal of this project is to characterize
(1) Democratic vs Republican counties in the US, based on demographics
(2) "Party switchers" - counties that switched parties from 2000 to 2004

Multi-source data were combined: Census data, data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, geographical data, and data from cnn.com