cord-19-tools 0.0.1

CORD 19 tools and utilities

COVID-19 Data Tools

Tools for making COVID 19 data slightly easier for everyone!

The Paperset class

This is a class for lazily loading papers from the CORD-19 dataset. Here are the instructions for use:

1. Download a dataset in tar.gz form from the Download Here section, or using download bash script in this repository (which automatically completes step 2 for you)

2. Extract it into a directory of your choice (functionality for leaving the tarballs unpacked/online may be added later, this is version 0.0.1), for example:

tar -xvzf comm_use_subset.tar.gz 

3. Load it into python!

import cotools
from pprint import pprint

# no `/` at the end please!
data = cotools.Paperset("data/comm_use_subset")

# indexes with ints
pprint(data[0])

# and slices!
pprint(data[:2])

Lets talk for a bit about how it works, and why it doesnt take a gigantic amount of memory. The files are not actually loaded into python until the data is indexed. Upon indexing, the files at those indexes are read into python, resulting in a list of dictionaries.