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I want to build an application to control medicine dosage and to do this I think about making sample database with like 1000 medicines with info most importantly about a dosage (4 times a day, every 4 hours...) and composition.
Does anyone know about some webpage that could easily provide me with this kind of information? I think about webscraping it with python. Or maybe somewhere there is already created sample database like this.
Also, I think about making feature about what elements in medicine composition can be dangerous together. Something like: That you can't take some 3 medicines together. Maybe someone know and could recommend some webpage, article, maybe algorithm that could provide me more knowledge about this subject.
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I am learning various coding languages and applications. As a project (that would be of benefit to me) I would like to design an appointment management system (I know there are many on the market...they are expensive and/or don't quite do what I need). The idea is this:
Have a calendar layout like iCal or GoogleCal where I can click on the day and time and write in an appointment (eg, "Penny"). I would also like next to the appointments (or maybe as a separate menu when clicking the name) options for marking off whether the "student" attended the appointment, did they pay for it, did they miss it and pay or miss and not pay, etc. I need to be able to look up each student and see their status, eg lessons paid for, not paid for, number of lessons missed, money owed, etc.
The key is that I can enter lessons in the calendar layout directly rather than having to open many menus to get a lesson on the cal. Also, I need to be able to edit repeated lessons individually (ie, mark one as missed), without affecting all the others (again, ideally without too many menus to open).
I've been using iCal and GoogleCal and they sort of do what I need but not fully. I've tried paid applications and again, some good functions, some not. Given I'm trying to learn various programming languages, SQL, etc...I thought this would be a good project to work on.
However, I have no idea where to start! I've played with making a calendar in Python but can't seem to find a way to write appointments on it. I'm looking into SQL and thinking that'll prob be required to make the database of students (but I'd prefer to enter students/appointments without having to enter a million pieces of info into fields...just don't need that for my purposes).
If someone could please recommend what approach and software/code would be appropriate for this project and basically point me in the right direction, that would be much appreciated. TIA!
I just need pointers on where to begin. I have some experience with Python, but nothing to brag about.
My end goal is to create a website that will allow multiple users to access it from different computers to fill the table with simple data, very simillar to what Google Sheets alows, and then printing it on a single sheet of paper. Idealy I want my programm to intelegently determine the width of rows and columns so that the table would look decently and would fill the page accordingly.
Right now all I need is some pointers on where to begin. Like can I use SQL to create these tables and have online fuctionality for users to access and fill the spreadsheet, and how to go about printing it.
I know this is very noob question, but I can't seem to find anything relevant here on by just using google.
Thank you.
I don't think this is a very good StackOverflow question because it is very broad and not programming specific. You are asking how to start a new software project which in my opinion belongs more in the software engineering meta: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/
Anyhow, how I would take on such a project:
First I would define my project scope. What is the functionality of the end-product? What must it be able to do and what not? Who are the end-users using the product and what do they expect? These are so called functional requirements.
In which way does the product deliver value? Is it fast, modifiable, distributed... These are so called non-functional requirements.
Develop a basic software architecture based on the previous requirements using patterns and tactics and identify the different subsystems. On the top of my hat I would divide it in a frontend component using a web application, backend component in your favourite language and a database component for persistence.
Research possible languages frameworks for each component, decide and start coding!
For the 4th step I suggest you have a look at Python Django which includes all of this stuff out-of-the-box.
I'm looking for a way to parse objects out of naturally written text. I have a database of thousands of locations (City, State). As my users write posts, I would like to intelligently find and enrich locations being written about. For example, given the post:
I had a really nice trip to Portland this weekend. It was beautiful and the climbing gyms are second to none.
I'd like to suggest Portland, OR and Portland, ME and ask the user to choose one.
Is there a name for this kind of search? I'm not even sure where to start.
EDIT: I'm currently using Python/Django and MySQL, but suggestions on any technology/platform would be useful.
You will need to use NLP to extract the city (location) from your sentence.
See:
http://www.nltk.org/howto/relextract.html
then run a query against your database:
maybe like:
select city, state from locations_table where city="Portland"
which will give you city, state pairs.
This is quite a general question, though I’ll give the specific use case for context.
I'm using a FileMaker Pro database to record personal bird observations. For each bird on the national list, I have extracted quite a lot of base data by website scraping in Python, for example conservation status, geographical range, scientific name and so on. In day-to-day use of the database, this base data remains fixed and unchanging. However, once a year or so I will want to re-scrape the base data to pick up the most recent published information on status, range, and even changes in scientific name (that happens).
I know there are options such as PyFilemaker or bBox which should allow me to write to the FileMaker database from Python, so the update mechanism itself shouldn't be a problem.
It would be rather dangerous simply to overwrite all of last year’s base data with the newly scraped data, and I'm looking for general advice as to how best to provide visibility for the changes before manually importing them. What I have in mind is to use pandas to generate a spreadsheet using the base data, and to highlight the changed cells. Does that sound a sensible way of doing it? I suspect that this may be a very standard requirement, and if anybody could help out with comments on an approach which is straightforward to implement in Python that would be most helpful.
This is not a standard requirement and there is no easy way of doing this. The best way to track changes is a Source Control system like git, but it is not applicable to FileMaker Pro as the files are binary.
You can try your approach, or you can try to add the new records in FileMaker instead of updating them and flag them as current or use only the last record
There are some amazing guys here, but you might want to take it to one of the FileMAker forums as the FIleMAker audience there is much larger then in SO
I have developed a search engine for restaurants. I have a social network wherein users can add friends and form groups and recommend restaurants to each other. Each restaurant may serve multiple cuisines. All of this in Python.
So based on what restaurants a user has recommended, we can zero in on the kind of cuisines a user might like more. At the same time, we will know which price tier the user is more likely to explore(high-end, fast food, cafe, lounges etc)
His friends will recommend some places which will carry more weightage. There are similar non-friend users who have the recommended some the restaurants the user has recommended and some more which the user hasn't.
The end problem is to recommend restaurants to the user based on:
1) What he has recommended(Other restaurants with similar cuisines) - 50% weightage
2) What his friends have recommended(filtering restaurants which serve the cuisines the user likes the most) - 25% weightage
3) Public recommendation by 'similar' non-friend users - 25% weightage.
I am spending a lot of time reading up on Neo4j, and I think Neo4j looks promising. Apart from that I tried pysuggest, but it didn't suit the above problem. I also tried reco4j but it is a Java based solution, whereas I'm looking for a Python based solution. There is also no activity on the Reco4j community, and it is still under development.
Although I've researched quite a lot, I might be missing out on something.
I'd like to know how would you go about implementing the above solution? Could you give any use cases for the same?
I think you won't find any out-of-the box solution for you problem, as it is quite specific. What you could do with Neo4j is to store all your data that you use for building recommendations (users, friendships links, users' restaurants recommendations and reviews etc) and then build you recommendation engine on this data. From my experience it is quite straightforward to do once you get all your data in Neo4j (either with Cypher or Gremlin).