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In this episode, Ribbon Health CTO Nate Fox joins us to discuss the ins and outs of APIs. Tune in to hear him share how he and his team build out APIs from scratch; how they ensure the uptime and reliability of APIs and how they leverage machine learning to improve the quality of healthcare delivery and maximize their social impact.\n\nIn this episode you will learn:\n\nWhat are APIs? [13:20]\n\nHow Ribbon Health\u2019s data API leverages ML models to improve the quality of healthcare delivery [16:08]\n\nHow to design a data API from scratch [20:00]\n\nHow to ensure the uptime and reliability of APIs [25:28]\n\nHow Ribbon uses knowledge graphs, manually labeled data samples, and an XGBoost model with hundreds of inputs to assign a confidence score [27:14]\n\nNate\u2019s favorite tool for easily scaling up the impact of data science [37:40]\n\nWhat is Nate\u2019s day-to-day like? [34:34]\n\nThe qualities Nate looks for when hiring data scientists [39:50]\n\nHow scientists and engineers can make a big social impact in health technology [42:50]\n\n\nAdditional materials: www.superdatascience.com/561