Ok, last post on this project. It’s a short one, largely because I haven’t done any real medicine-related work in like 3 days.
Long story short, Freebase is awesome and was the inspiration for this whole project. So once I got the data from wikipedia in Part 1, spent another couple hours writing(/learning how to write) a script that would upload the data to their wonderful service. The data still isn’t perfect, but having it on freebase makes editing it a lot easier. It also allows for cool visualizations like this one. Not the *most* practical visualization ever, but it’s kind of fun to play with: you can trace the arteries distally or proximally. Try typing name of any artery in the left search bar, and it should take you there. (Just make sure you don’t end up on a band named “Aorta” or something.)
