bio-biostars-analytics¶ ↑
Data-mining analysis that make use of this gem (newest to oldest):
Installation¶ ↑
Biostars analytics can be installed as a Ruby gem:
gem install bio-biostars-analytics
Statistical analytics requires the installation of R 2.15.0 or later; requires the installation of the plyr package 2.15.1 or later.
Usage¶ ↑
Data-mining: crawl the Biostars forum and retrieve data from the Biostar RESTful API; parameters as of March 2014:
biostars-analytics 96000 54
This will create two files: <date>_api.tsv
and <date>_crawled.tsv
Various plots in PNG file format can be generated via:
biostar_api_stats <date>_api.tsv biostar_crawled_stats <date>_crawled.tsv
Command Line Usage Instructions¶ ↑
Data-Mining¶ ↑
Usage: biostars-analytics max_post_number months_look_back [min_post_number] Required parameters: max_post_number : highest number (ID) of the post that should be mined for data; the crawler will go over posts min_post_number to max_post_number months_look_back : how many months back should queries to the Biostar API go (1 month = 30 days); default value is 1 Optional parameters: min_post_number : lowest number (ID) of the post that should be mined for data Output (date matches the script\'s invokation): <date>_crawled.tsv : data mined from crawling over posts <date>_api.tsv : data extracted from the Biostar API Example: mining Biostars in March 2014: biostars-analytics 96000 54
Statistics (based on RESTful API data)¶ ↑
Usage: biostar_api_stats apitsvfile Example (data provided at http://github.com/joejimbo/bioruby-biostars-analytics): biostar_api_stats data/20140328_api.tsv
Statistics (based on forum mining/crawling)¶ ↑
Usage: biostar_crawled_stats crawledtsvfile Example (data provided at http://github.com/joejimbo/bioruby-biostars-analytics): biostar_api_stats data/20140328_crawled.tsv
Project Repository¶ ↑
Contributions can be made to the open repository on GitHub:
github.com/joejimbo/bioruby-biostars-analytics
The BioRuby community is on IRC server: irc.freenode.org, channel: bioruby.
Cite¶ ↑
If you use this software, please cite one of
Biogems.info¶ ↑
This Biogem is published at (biogems.info/index.html#bio-biostars-analytics)
Copyright¶ ↑
Copyright © 2014 Joachim Baran. See LICENSE.txt for further details.