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Extra utilities

connectivity_stats.py allows to compute some statistics (such as "number of projects that are not associated with any publication", and such) from the CSV data generated by the main program. Hence, connectivity_stats.py can only be run after import.py.

Update

• Projects and Abstracts are updated every week by making available new zip files

• Publications and Links are updated on a yearly basis by making available new zip files

• Patents consists of a single file with all the patents that is updated whenever happens

  • This means efficient updates are more delicate and some extra logic is required if one doesn't want to always delete the old file.

Data Documentation

Some useful links:

• Data structure explanation
• FAQ

Some acronyms that are mentioned above:

• DUNS: Data Universal Numbering System: for identifying organizations