On 04-May-09 18:17:07, Brian Alper MD wrote:
> DynaMed and EBSCO have no way of controlling a Google doc. No
> "deliberate acts" on are part -- we have nothing to do with the
> spreadsheet to which you refer.
My apologies -- I had cross-wired EBSCO/Dynamed (who through you
pointed out the topic summary on www.ebscohost.com/dynamed) with
Bazian (who through Rob Cook drew the spreadsheet resource to the
attention of the list).
I withdraw any suggestions relating to EBSCO/Dynamed!
Ted.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evidence based health (EBH)
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ted Harding
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: CATs on swine flu urgently needed
>
> Having happily accessed the Dynamed H1N1 data (from the WHO updates)
> since Rob announced it (below), I have been looking at the progress
> of the data based on converting the displayed spreadsheet to a
> displayed CSV format as I described on Saturday 2nd May.
>
> However, going to the web-page today, while there is now an enhanced
> "gadget" which is very nice indeed, when I switch to the "Data"
> sheet I can now neither change to CSV format nor copy the displayed
> spreadsheet. (As I described before, though I can "select" the
> displayed spreadsheet data, for some reason this does not go into
> the "paste" buffer so cannot be copied; however, previously I could
> change the display to CSV and select and paste that).
>
> The blockage is that the "File" button on the spreadsheet is no
> longer active. Previously, clicking on that gave a menu which
> included the option to switch to CSV. Now the buttin is dead. Even
> if I log in to Google.
>
> Is that a deliberate act by EBSCO/Dynamed/Bazian? Or was it an error?
> If the latter, I look forward to being able to resume grabbing
> the data.
>
> If the former, then I would wish to express my disappointment,
> indeed resentment.
> Ted.
>
> On 02-May-09 10:10:24, Rob Cook wrote:
>> Ted and others,
>>
>> The DynaMed summary is v useful. We have also been tracking the
>> confirmed cases by country for a google gadget. Based on the data
>> in WHO updates. Other sources, especially newspapers seem to have
>> reported variations on 'suspected' and 'probables' from some
>> countries. My understanding is that some of the 14 reported cases
>> from NZ, for example, were suspected - yet widely reported in N.
>> hemisphere sources as confirmed. Thus we have stuck with WHO daily
>> updates.
>>
>> The draft gadget and underlying spereadsheet is available at the
>> following link. I can send the simple spreadsheet underlying it if you
>> have trouble with access.
>>
>> The axes can be adjusted. It runs best as temporal series of WHO
>> confirmed cases and deaths by country for the last 7 days. We will
>> continue to update.
>> (http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=rYC3uyjQKj9zEo6dJW-behQ)
>>
>> Rob Cook
>> Programme Director
>> Bazian
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>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Evidence based health (EBH) on behalf of Ted Harding
>> Sent: Sat 5/2/2009 12:42 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: CATs on swine flu urgently needed
>>
>> On 29-Apr-09 22:21:23, Brian Alper MD wrote:
>>> At DynaMed and EBSCO Publishing (www.ebscohost.com/dynamed) we have
>>> made the swine influenza topic openly available without logging in or
>>> subscribing. We will continue to update this topic as
> recommendations,
>>> confirmed case count and eventually evidence reports are published.
>>
>> That is a useful site. Unfortunately, I did not then start to do
>> what now wish I had started to do!
>>
>> Namely, I would like to draw up a series of tables, each like the one
>> you see when you click on "View Topic" under "H1N1 Flu" on the above
>> URL,
>> and then click on "see current confirmed case count" on that site
>> which finally takes you to:
>>
>> http://hldemo.ebscohost.com/DynaMed-SwineFlu/#casecount
>>
>> That is the table for the latest update. What I would like to have
>> assembled is the entire series of successive tables, one such table
>> for each day since the summaries began to be put up on that site.
>>
>> One can access written summaries for the previous updates, but in
>> these it is difficult to pick out the equivalent data in order to
>> draw up the series of tables I seek. If I had had the presence of
>> mind to start accumulating these myself on first visiting the site,
>> I would have pretty well what I want (except perhaps for the first
>> 2 or 3). As it is, I missed the bus!
>>
>> So: does anyone know of a source for what I am looking for?
>> And/or has anyone actually done what I should have done, and would
>> be willing to share the results?
>>
>> Reason: I am interested in following the temporal evolution of
>> this series of data.
>>
>> With thanks,
>> Ted.
>>
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