Jeemin Sim (Work Log)

2/6/2017 MONDAY 2PM-6PM

• Set up wikiPage & remote desktop.
• Started working on python version of web crawler. So far it successfully prints out a catchphrase/ description for one website. To be worked on. The python file can be found in: E:\McNair\Projects\Accelerators\Python WebCrawler\webcrawlerpython.py

2/8/2017 WEDNESDAY9AM-11AM

• Attempted to come up with possible cases for locating the description of accelerators - pick up from extracting bodies of text from the about page (given that it exists)

2/13/2017 MONDAY 2PM-6PM

• Goals (for trials): 1) Build ER Diagram 2) For each entity, get XML snippet 3) Build a parser/ripper for single file; the python parser can be found at: E:\McNair\Projects\FDA Trials\Jeemin_Project
• Trial Data Project

2/15/2017 WEDNESDAY 9AM-11AM

• Discussed with Catherine what to do with FDA Trial data and decided to have a dictionary with zip-codes as keys and number of trials occurred in that zipcode as values. Was still attempting to loop through the files without the code having to exist in the same directory as the XML files. Plan to write to excel via tsv, with zip-code as one column and # of occurrence as the other.

2/17/2017 FRIDAY 2PM-6PM

• Completed code for counting the number of occurrences for each unique zipcode. (currently titled & located: E:\McNair\Projects\FDA Trials\Jeemin_Project\Jeemin_Running_File.py). It has been running for 20+min because of the comprehensive XML data files. Meanwhile started coding to create a dictionary with the keys corresponding to each unique trial ID, mapped to every other information (location, sponsors, phase, drugs ...etc.) (currently titled & located: E:\McNair\Projects\FDA Trials\Jeemin_Project\Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py).

2/20/2017 MONDAY 2PM-4:30PM

• Continued working on Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py to find tags and place all of those information in a list. The other zipcode file did not finish executing after 2+ hours of running it - considering the possibility of splitting the record file into smaller bits, or running the processing on a faster machine.

2/22/2017 WEDNESDAY 9AM-12:30PM

• Finished Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py (E:\McNair\Projects\FDA Trials\Jeemin_Project\Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py), which outputs to E:\McNair\Projects\FDA Trials\Jeemin_Project\general_data_ripping_output.txt; TODO: output four different tables & replace the write in the same for-loop as going through each file

2/24/2017 FRIDAY 2:30PM-6:30PM

• Continued working on producing multiple tables - first two are done. Was working on location, as there are multiple location tags per location.

2/27/2017 MONDAY 2PM-6PM

• Finished producing tables from Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py
• Talked to Julia about LinkedIn data extracting - to be discussed further with Julia & Peter.
• Started web crawler for Wikipedia - currently pulls Endowment, Academic staff, students, undergraduates, and postgraduates info found on Rice Wikipedia page. Can be found in : E:\McNair\Projects\University Patents\Jeemin_University_wikipedia_crawler.py

3/1/2017 WEDNESDAY 9AM-12PM

• Started re-running Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py

3/3/2017 FRIDAY 2PM-5PM

• Attempted to output sql tables

3/6/017 MONDAY 2PM-6PM

• Installing python in a database
• Added building Python function section to Working with PostgreSQL at the bottom of the page.
• Ran FDA Trial data ripping again, as the text output files were wiped.
• Plan on discussing with Julia and Meghana again about pulling universities and other relevant institutions from the Assignee List USA.
• Talked to Sonia about pulling city, state, zipcode information, hence python was installed in a database. Will work with Sonia on Wednesday afternoon and see how best a regex function could be implemented

3/8/2017 WEDNESDAY 9AM-12PM

• Output sql tables from finished run of Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py
• Ran through assigneelist_USA.txt to see how many different ways UNIVERSITY could be spelled wrong. There were many.
• Tried to logic through creating a pattern that could catch all different versions of UNIVERSITY. Discuss further on whether UNIVERSITIES and those that include UNIVERSITIES but include INC in the end should be pulled as relevant information

3/8/2017 WEDNESDAY 2PM-5PM

• Wrote regex pattern that identifies all "university" matchings - can be found in E:\McNair\Projects\University Patents\university_pulled_from_assignee_list_USA -- is an output file
• Talked to Sonia, but didn't come to solid conclusion on identifying whether key words associate with city or country by running a python function

3/13/2017 MONDAY 12PM-2PM

• For University Patent Data Matching - matched SCHOOL (output: E:\McNair\Projects\University Patents\school_pulled_from_assignee_list_USA) and matched INSTITUTE(output: E:\McNair\Projects\University Patents\institute_pulled_from_assignee_list_USA).
• University Patent Matching
• To be worked on later: Grant XML parsing & general name matcher

3/14/2017 TUESDAY 12PM-2PM

• Started pulling academy cases but there are too many cases to worry about, in terms of institution of interest. A document is located in E:\McNair\Projects\University Patents\academies_verify_cases.txt
• Need Julia/Meghana to look through the hits and see which are relevant & extract pattern from there.
• Having trouble outputting txt file without double quotes around every line.
• Thinking that one text file should be output for all keywords instead of having one each, to avoid overlap (ex) COLLEGE and UNIVERSITY are both keywords; ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY will be hit twice if it were counted as two separate instances, one accounting for COLLEGE and the other for UNIVERSITY) - either in the form of if-elseif statements or one big regex check.

3/15/2017 WEDNESDAY 9AM-1PM

• Todo: write a wikipage on possible input/output info on string matcher
• Wrote part of XML parser, extracted yearly data into E:\McNair\Projects\Federal Grant Data\NSF\NSF Extracted Data (up to year 2010)

3/16/2017 THURSDAY 12PM-2PM

• Further documented University Patent Matching
• Finished writing XML Parser

3/20/2017 MONDAY 2PM-6PM

• Talked to Julia about universal matcher, want to combine all University of California's to University of California, The Regents of
• Converted crunchbase2013 data from mySQL to PostgreSQL, but having trouble with the last table - cb_relationships, complains about syntax error at or near some places - but generally all tables exist in database called crunchbase
• Federal Grant Data XML Parser was run - the three output textfiles can be found in E:\McNair\Projects\Federal Grant Data\NSF

3/22/2017 WEDNESDAY 9AM-12PM

• Read string matching & calculating distance, below are relevant links
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3/24/2017 FRIDAY 2PM-5PM

• Discussed with Julia & Meghana about university keys to use to count # of occurrences, including aliases and misspellings
• Thoughts: to use a scoring metric with a key of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM, it should have a 'better' score when compared to MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES PUBLISHERS C/O UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY or CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES, UNVIERSITY OF than when compared to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, which may pose a challenge when attempting to implement this in a more general sense. In normalizing a string, strip "THE", "," and split words by spaces and compare each keyword from the two strings. Deciding on which strings to compare will be another issue - length (within some range maybe) could be an option.
• Federal Grant Data XML Parser was rerun - same output textfiles