How the Heart Rhythm Society Sells Access
The Heart Rhythm Society’s annual conference is a marketing bonanza for drug companies and medical device makers.
Dollars for Docs Adds Payouts from HIV Drug Maker
ViiV Healthcare, which specializes in HIV medications, disclosed paying $3.4 million in speaking and consulting fees to doctors during the first three quarters of 2010. It becomes the eighth company in Dollars for Docs database.
Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
A series of technical and programming tutorials on how scraped, parsed, and organized data for "Dollars for Docs."
Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data
A series of programming and technical guides on how we collected data for Dollars for Docs.
The Coder's Cause in "Dollars for Docs"
Public records, as a programming challenge, in our Dollars for Docs project.
Chapter 3: Turning PDFs to Text
Dollars for Docs Data Guide: A tutorial on several methods to convert PDFs to spreadsheets.
Chapter 2: Reading Data from Flash Sites
How to read data from Flash-based websites, part of our data-scraping guide for Dollars for Docs.
Chapter 1. Using Google Refine to Clean Messy Data
How to use the Google Refine application to make sense of imperfectly recorded data.
Chapter 4: Scraping Data from HTML
Dollars for Docs Data Guide: A tutorial on scraping HTML from websites.