commit ffe9add989c3c1a85668401c4deb05a074fa854e
parent 6c0e72db244f5d70f02850081d84f9cbfed5f840
Author: beau hilton <cbeauhilton@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:55:30 -0500
add draft of abstract project to the about page
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/site/about.md b/site/about.md
@@ -195,7 +195,25 @@ because it focuses on the tools rather than the subjects or goals.
### disparities in cancer research across space and time
-TODO: write about the abstracts project
+My current project is a work in progress,
+creating a third-party database/archive
+of all the abstracts from the two big annual cancer meetings
+(ASH and ASCO - as a starting point),
+made machine-readable and hence more easily accessible en masse.
+Here's a [rough prelim](https://ash-abstracts.vercel.app/abstracts_small/abstracts)
+of what that will look like,
+with an interactive map and sorting/search/export
+(you can hit JSON or CSV endpoints trivially to get nicely formatted data,
+as opposed to the hulking web scrapers
+and HTML wranglers I wrote to get the data the first time).
+First analysis will be on the authors and affiliations
+(global mapping, with a time component),
+how those overlap with disease states
+(e.g. how much sickle cell research comes out of Sub-Saharan Africa?
+We know it's bad, but nobody has quantified how bad -
+the idea is to have a platform for answering these questions easily),
+before branching out into things like
+conflicts of interest and NLP on the abstract texts proper, etc.
---
diff --git a/site/colophon.md b/site/colophon.md
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ to achieve a clean editing environment.
When it's ready to go live,
I use an alias called `glazy`: `git add . && git commit -m "update" && git push`.
-This will trigger the pre-commit hook,
-which rebuilds the site again and activates rsync,
-before pushing the source files to GitHub and my git server.
+This will trigger the pre-commit hook,
+which rebuilds the site again
+and activates rsync to send the built site to the web server,
+before pushing the source files to
+GitHub and my git server.
