Comments for ScraperWiki https://blog.scraperwiki.com Extract tables from PDFs and scrape the web Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 Comment on QuickCode is the new name for ScraperWiki (the product) by Nilanjan https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2016/07/quickcode-is-the-new-name-for-scraperwiki-the-product/#comment-1167 Thu, 14 Jul 2016 16:12:42 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758224468#comment-1167 Best wishes for the new direction. I always loved scraper wiki – there’s something about the way it was created – just seems very well crafted. It was far superior to other scraping solutions.

]]> Comment on Branded and Generic medication compared by Leonisha Barley https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1142 Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:13:37 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1142 Hi Tony
Glad you’re finding my posts useful, and thanks for the link.

]]> Comment on Branded and Generic medication compared by Tony Hirst https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1141 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 19:03:33 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1141 Re: the manufacturers, some company names seem to appear in elements of TRUD > NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices > NHSBSA dm+d .

]]> Comment on Branded and Generic medication compared by Tony Hirst https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1140 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 18:46:42 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1140 Hi Leonisha

Thanks for clarifying that… I never put the time into the prescribing data to be able to look at it in anyway sensibly, but your posts are giving me plenty of cribs for next time I do have a play:-)

And your last comment suggests a handy little function around the BNF: for a given formulation, get a list of branded/unbranded alternatives.

Thanks again:-)

]]> Comment on Branded and Generic medication compared by Leonisha Barley https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1139 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:05:44 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1139 Hi Tony,
Thanks for the comment.
In my first blog post I explained that each medication had a unique BNF Code and if the product is branded but had a generic alternative the 14th and 15th digit of it’s BNF code match that of it’s generic equivalent.
Therefore I filtered down the products to display the branded products that had a generic equivalent available. Then I did my own research on google for the generic version of the branded product.
No sorry, I haven’t been able to find a list that matches branded drugs to manufacturer/pharmaceutical company.

]]> Comment on Branded and Generic medication compared by Tony Hirst https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/branded-and-generic-medication-compared/#comment-1138 Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:29:27 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223818#comment-1138 Hi Leonisha –

Interesting post. Did you find a list of branded/generic equivalences, or were the mappings you used based on desk research of your own?

Something I keep wondering about is the distribution of manufacturer products. I don’t suppose you’ve found an open list that matches branded drugs to manufacturer/pharmaceutical company, have you?

]]> Comment on The four kinds of data PDF by Fragments – Scraping Tabular Data from PDFs | OUseful.Info, the blog... https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/08/the-four-kinds-of-data-pdf/#comment-1134 Thu, 13 Aug 2015 13:25:41 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223601#comment-1134 […] blog about the different sorts of table containing documents you often come across as PDFS: The four kinds of data PDF (“large tables”, “pivotted tables”, “transactions”, […]

]]> Comment on Hi, I’m Leonisha by Tableau Online Training in Hyderabad https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/07/hi-im-leonisha/#comment-1133 Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:10:18 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223333#comment-1133 First of all congratulations Leonisha Barley for getting internship opportunity at Scraperwiki …………………. Learning new technologies is good thing .. Tableau is the leader in the BI market… all most all companies using this… so fast to get the results in a nice manner..

]]> Comment on Spreadsheets are code: EuSpRIG conference. by JohnOS https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/07/eusprig/#comment-1132 Tue, 11 Aug 2015 11:47:11 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223366#comment-1132 Totally agree that spreadsheets are code, especially the pricing and risk spreadsheets I’ve often worked with on trading floors. My own view is that a big part of the problem is that spreadsheet “code” is trapped in a desktop user interface that does little data validation, prevents significant automation, and exposes the “code” to all users. Imagine if every business user of a Java application was also a Java developer with access to the source code! That’s how it is with Excel. I believe we can take a big step forward if we take spreadsheets off the desktop and run them on a server. That’s what spreadserve.com does. In trader speak I’m “talking my own book”, of course!

]]> Comment on Spreadsheets are code: EuSpRIG conference. by David McKee https://blog.scraperwiki.com/2015/07/eusprig/#comment-1125 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 10:15:39 +0000 https://blog.scraperwiki.com/?p=758223366#comment-1125 My main argument (although perhaps “rant” would be more accurate!) is that spreadsheets are barely running with ‘current’ tools. Things we just take for granted — copy-pasting code from StackOverflow, being able to see your code trivially, local variables which have names that don’t magically change — these don’t exist in the Excel world! They need dragging kicking and screaming into the early 90’s. 😛

And we should *never* be happy with the state of current tools. Out of irritation and discontent grow the pearls of “well of *course* you do it this way”!

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