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Show HN: Find uni labs doing significant work in any topic
- asudhakar11 10y agoReddit AMA by Columbia CS prof on 3/6 at 10.30a PST on DNA computers. The link shows you who else has done work in the topic (needs better UI!). What do you think?
- EricSun 10y agoCool! How do you collect this info? Wouldn't it be hard to know these projects that uni labs are doing?
- asudhakar11 10y ago@ericsun, sure, I use a combination of W2v and Wikipedia for the concepts. I then query a repository that I assemble (funding, papers and patent data).
- FrankLee2 10y agoHey, I would like to know these things too! It would be helpful for my future researches as well.
- asudhakar11 10y ago@franklee2, sure. just change the text after the = sign. It needs some work, but you'll get an overall idea of who's doing significant work in the topic! It's a summary of funding, papers and patent data.
- chinjoshi 10y agoHow reliable is this encoded data, can everything be retrieved accurately ?
- asudhakar11 10y agoValid question @chinjoshi. Our funding data's pulled from sources like the NSF. These account for 90% of the $60bn of annual research spend in the US. Our patent data is pulled directly from the USPTO. And our papers published data is pulled form technical publishers like Elsevier. What gets missed out is private funding which accounts for <$5bn of the $60bn.
- Vikrampatel 10y agoThis is awesome. Where are you pulling this data from?
- asudhakar11 10y agothanks @vikrampatel. Pulling the data from a few places. The concept graphs are w2v and Wikipedia. The funding data is from sources like the NSF (I capture 90% of the $60bn of annual public funded research). Papers are from sources like Elsevier. Patents are from the USPTO. I'd love to pull in the 4th innovation leg, startups, but Angel and Crunchbase are pretty tight with that info.
- asudhakar11 10y agooops, looks like I linked to a test URL: here's a more reliable one! http://159.203.189.96/dojobs?mode=json¢er=&summary=dna%20computer http://159.203.189.96/dojobs?mode=json¢er=&summary=dna%2...
- fasicle 10y agoGreat idea, any timescale on bringing this to unis outside the US?
- asudhakar11 10y agoThanks @fasicle. That's a great idea and I'll work on it asap. Some limitations will be English speaking countries (my own limitation!) and data availability, but I'll look into it.
- kyunbit 10y agoThis is really helpful
- asudhakar11 10y agoThanks @kyunbit! I'll point you to a cleaned up front end soon :)
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