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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 The blockage is that the "File" button on the spreadsheet is no longer active.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 > [log in to unmask] > > > -----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. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[log in to unmask]> > Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 > Date: 02-May-09 Time: 00:42:44 > ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[log in to unmask]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 04-May-09 Time: 17:00:54 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------