The dynamics and social organization of innovation in the field of oncology/Tutorial esmo.py

This page documents some use cases of esmo.py instrument from the esmominer repository.

Tuning the parameters

 * 1) Open a terminal/command(cmd) window and change directory to ./esmo
 * 2) Open EsmoDescription.py located in the ./esmo/src folder
 * 3) * This file contains the text mining attributes for every ESMO year. A few notable attributes are size and font
 * 4) From the ./esmo directory, you can print the list of conferences or the commands available using Here we'll assume you already gone through the commands for downloading and producing a first version of mined text for one year, ending with one of the -to-json commands.
 * 5) You can view the abstracts, in this example for 2004, by using the command below. Adding --inspect will also pair the text from every document with it's json counterpart which contains the detailed attributes
 * 6) To change what esmo.py considers in it's text mining process, change attributes for specific years within EsmoDescription.py and save the document. Then run the following command This will secure the changes.
 * 7) Using the following command will allow you to see the effect that your change to EsmoDescription.py produced
 * 8) If the changes satisfy you, use the following command to implement your changes for good
 * 9) Return to step 4 and view the updated way in which esmo.py views the documents, or straight to step 5 to keep improving your text mining.