I completed Phase 1, the Analytic Component. It includes:
Implement and analytic object that performs the following tasks:a. Read linkage configuration file and determine which fields/columns need to be scaled.b. Connect to data source containing individual tokens. Assume that the data source is either a flat file such as a CSV file or a relational database.c. Add new information [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Database schema for analysis results
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Here is a draft on how to store analytical phase results in a relational database table. I created this diagram using DBDesigner 4, the same tool used to create OpenMRS Data Model. Right click here and choose ”Save target as” if you’d like to load this schema in DBDesigner and modify it.Datasource_analysis table mimics LinkDataSource class in org.regenstrief.linkage.io package. I am imagining a [...]
I was so eager to start working on this project that I forgot to introduce the problem that I will be working on during this summer.Record linkage, roughly, is the task of identifying pieces of scattered information that refer to the same thing. Patient matching is a specific application, in which we try to identify records that [...]
Google was cool enough to send out Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software book as a suprise gift to all Summer of Code ‘07 participants. I have already read that book at our local library after getting accepted, therefore I was hoping to receive another book, Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution Nevertheless, the [...]