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D. C. Sessions - 15 Mar 2008 17:42 GMT

Once upon a time the CDC website was a bit more text-oriented
and the reportable disease summary tables were available as
text files. Unfortunately they've gone all PDF now.

However, I was able to gobble up the decade summaries for
1944-1993 and put them into a spreadsheet (thank insomnia).
Since this isn't a binary newsgroup, I'm not going to post
the 49K of .ods but if anyone wants to suggest a repository
I'll put it up for general use.

Of course, if anyone wants to try to merge the later annual
tables I'll be glad of the help; right now I'm trying to
suck them out of pdf2text but it's not pretty.

| The most important exclamation in science isn't "Eureka!" |
| The most important exclamation is "What the BLEEP?" |

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The One True Zhen Jue - 15 Mar 2008 22:41 GMT

> Once upon a time the CDC website was a bit more text-oriented
> and the reportable disease summary tables were available as
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> tables I'll be glad of the help; right now I'm trying to
> suck them out of pdf2text but it's not pretty.

I want to thank you for the task you've undertaken. Perhaps Peter
Bowditch could suggest a repository as opposed to Tim Bolen to whom I
suggest a sharp-edged, Polonium suppository.

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> | The most important exclamation in science isn't "Eureka!" |
> | The most important exclamation is "What the BLEEP?" |
> +---------- D. C. Sessions <d...@lumbercartel.com> ----------+

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Peter Bowditch - 16 Mar 2008 03:06 GMT

>> Once upon a time the CDC website was a bit more text-oriented
>> and the reportable disease summary tables were available as
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>Bowditch could suggest a repository as opposed to Tim Bolen to whom I
>suggest a sharp-edged, Polonium suppository.

I can certainly put it up on my site.

Some time ago I had an attempt to analyse the WHO M&M data, but the
volume is extraordinarily voluminous and analysis requires lots of
computer grunt. I can't say I wasn't warned, because WHO say that
mining their data is not for the novice or timid. I'll have another go
one day when I have a few billion processor cycles free.

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D. C. Sessions - 16 Mar 2008 04:06 GMT

>>> Once upon a time the CDC website was a bit more text-oriented
>>> and the reportable disease summary tables were available as
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> mining their data is not for the novice or timid. I'll have another go
> one day when I have a few billion processor cycles free.

It's a simple ODS -- how do you want it delivered?

| The most important exclamation in science isn't "Eureka!" |
| The most important exclamation is "What the BLEEP?" |

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Peter Bowditch - 16 Mar 2008 07:23 GMT

>>>> Once upon a time the CDC website was a bit more text-oriented
>>>> and the reportable disease summary tables were available as
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
>
>It's a simple ODS -- how do you want it delivered?

Email will do, thanks.

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