After having Thanksgiving break, we decided to lay out our game plan for the rest of the semester. I will continue looking into discrepancies between medical records. Specifically, I'm looking into patients' smoking statuses. It's common for one record to …
Weeks 9 & 10 – Katie
We have a server! We spent our most recent meeting figuring out who has access to which parts of it and other things like that. The next step is to learn how to navigate the server; I lucked out and …
CREU Weeks 9 & 10 – Rebecca
Our server is finally working! I've been learning how to use the command line and how to SSH into the server. Having remote access will be especially useful for me, since I live off campus. Yay!
We also did some …
Weeks 7 & 8 – Katie
It's been tricky to get a server instantiated to keep all of our data in one place, but we're working on it! In the meantime, I read some papers related to our project, including one that Professor Stubbs worked on, …
CREU Group Update
This week, we've worked on finalizing our person and patient objects. After a few weeks of writing the separate parts of this program, we've finally brought them all together into a cohesive whole. The code will now read in the …
10/23/15
This week we split up the work among the three of us. I focused on writing a code that read in a CSV file of patient information. Later I will be using this file and file reader and applying statistical …
10/16/2015
This week Rebecca and I worked together on creating person and patient objects in python. It had been a while since I had done this in python, so I took some time getting familiarized with how to do this. Our …
Rebecca’s CREU Update! 10/27/15
This week, we worked on finishing up our person and patient classes. I also created separate objects for each tag category - for example, family history and medication. At first we were reading in these tags as strings. Now we …
Weeks 5 & 6 – Katie
I was fortunate enough to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration recently, so I was unable to make our most recent meeting. However, I did program quite a bit on the plane (I had a lot of layovers). Regular expressions are …
Week 4 – Katie
Stephanie, Rebecca, and I have started discussing how we're going to integrate all of our code, since we have all begun working on parsers, Patient classes, and so on. I did some more background reading as well.
Lately we've been …