Earlier today, Emily Wixson posted a question on the CHMINF-L list asking … if there is any way to count the number of authors of papers with specific keywords in the title by year over a decade … Since I had some code compiling and databases loading I took a quick stab, using Python and […]
Simple XML Parsing with Clojure
A while back I had started playing with Clojure. It’s always been a spare-time hobby and not having had much spare time I haven’t really gotten as far ahead with it as I’d have liked. I’m still not sure why I like Clojure, but it is fun to code in. My interest was revitalized when […]
Frequency of a Term via PubMed
A little while back, Egon posted a question on FriendFeed, asking whether there was an easy way, preferably a service, to determine and plot the usage count of a term in PubMed by year. This is simple enough using the Entrez Utilities CGI. A quick Python script to do this (with minimal error checking) is […]