/pubmed-explorer

Scrollership through 20m pubmed abstracts.

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This page is a collaboration between the Berens lab at the University of Tübingen and Nomic. It presents an online companion to the paper circulated as The landscape of biomedical research, by Rita Gonzalez-Marquez, Luca Schmidt, Benjamin M. Schmidt, Philipp Berens, and Dmitry Kobak.

Gonzalez-Marquez, B. Schmidt, and Kobak prepared the online version: underlying code is at https://github.com/bmschmidt/pubmed-explorer

Code for processing the data here and arranging it in two dimensions is at https://github.com/berenslab/pubmed-landscape The visualization engine to display points is Deepscatter, and pandoc-svelte-components is used to create a scrollable narration from the underlying Markdown file.

Make your own deepscatter scrolly. (N.B. this inherits the deepscatter non-commercial license.)

  1. Fork this repo.
  2. Install pandoc 2.19 on your local machine.
  3. pip install quadfeather and use it to create a directory of feather tiles for deepscatter. Fork and clone https://github.com/bmschmidt/pubmed-explorer/ 10:32
  4. Install pandoc 2.19 on your local machine.
  5. pip install quadfeather and use it to create a directory of feather tiles for deepscatter. 10:35
  6. Place those files in the explorer repo or somewhere else. (I almost always use a separate https server for tiles. I have a dozen or so sets folder at ~/scrolly_tiles/pubmed , ~/scrolly_tiles/hathi, etc.; and then after using npm i --global http-server I run http-server --cors . --port 9999 in that folder.
  7. Open the narrative at src/scrollership/pubmed.md. Set the tile location in the first api block as http://localhost:9999/pubmed.
  8. npm i and npm run dev in the pubmed-explorer repository folder. Editing the file at src/scrollership/pubmed.md will change the website. Each of the code blocks is a deepscatter API call expressed as yaml.
  9. You just refresh the page at localhost:2001 (I think that’s the port it takes over?) and the site will express the local changes in the markdown file. No javascript coding needed.

At some point soon it will become possible to compile pandoc to run on the web using the new wasm backend for the GHC. This will be really fun and make it possible to radically streamline this process.