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Scientometric/bibliometric data retrieval from a list of DOI
Maybe the rcrossref package for R is helpful. To find the number of citations, You can do things such as
library(rcrossref)
# returns list:
# pap <- cr_works(dois = "10.1371/journal.pone....
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)
The wikitextparser Python module has good support for converting tables into structured formats.
Example:
import wikitextparser as wtp
import requests
import json
r = requests.get('http://en....
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90ies Windows .exe database on CD: Extract underlying data
I received some help on it. Something along these lines with xor in Python did the job:
with open('...dat', 'rb') as f:
with open('...txt', 'w') as out:
xor = 1
s = ""
...
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)
Sometimes it pays off to look one step ahead, i.e. to check if the items and its properties represented by a Wikipedia table are also available in the Wikidata knowledge base.
Depending on the data, ...
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How do I get just city-level data on data.gov?
Below is the link to city level datasets in data.gov
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset?groups=local&organization_type=City+Government#topic=local_navigation
You will see there is only 2600 ...
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How do I get just city-level data on data.gov?
You can use the organization_type filter on the CKAN API, e.g.
http://catalog.data.gov/api/action/package_search?q=organization_type:%22City%20Government%22+AND+dataset_type:dataset
But as others ...
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Reputable source to get foot traffic in Australia based on different locations
There is no open data source that I am aware of that would be able to provide foot traffic at the hourly level for the method you are looking for. That being said, an option would be to look up recent ...
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Scientometric/bibliometric data retrieval from a list of DOI
Other than CrossRef alone, OpenCitations might be of help to you as well.
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Extracting variables from unstructured Excel files
I have personally found that using Perl and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel was relatively simple and useful for extracting data from Excel sheets.
Another approach that may work is to upload into Google and ...
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Wikipedia table to JSON (or other machine-readable format)
TableTools2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabletools2/
It's a Firefox addon that enables right-click copying of the table like this:
It works quite well and is very stable.
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Extracting tables from multiple PDFs
The tabulizer R package wraps the command line tabula extractor Java application at the heart of tabula so you can easily call tabula from R and retrieve tables from one or more PDFs from within an R ...
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Extracting tables from multiple PDFs
You can give a shot to TrapRange (open source, MIT License, Java):
Some sample pdf files and results:
Input file: sample-1.pdf, result: sample-1.html
Input file: sample-4.pdf, result: sample-4.html
...
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