Changes

* 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

* 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)

* 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]]

* 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.

* 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).

* 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.

* 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

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

* 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

* Started re-running Jeemin_FDATrial_as_key_data_ripping.py

* Attempted to output sql tables

* [[Installing python in a database]]

* Added building Python function section to [[Working with PostgreSQL]] at the bottom of the page.