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Ultra-rapid reviews, first test results 2 Aug 2013 | 02:00 pm
One thing I've been working on recently has been an ultra-rapid review system, based on machine learning and some basic statistics. In a nutshell can we take multiple abstracts, 'read' what they're a...
Mobile interface on Trip 31 Jul 2013 | 12:08 pm
We have now released a new mobile interface for the Trip Database. Previously, a user going to Trip from their mobile would have a disjointed experience! However, we have no released an adapative in...
Improving the way Trip searches: Clinicians Like Me 5 Jul 2013 | 12:02 pm
Over the last few months I have been working with the Terrier Team at the University of Glasgow. It started with an email highlighting problems I perceived with search. My main concern related to th...
The future is taking shape 1 Jun 2013 | 02:04 pm
Last week I posted a review of Trip and since then I've sent the first set of emails to the advisory board. This consisted of a list of ideas and issues I'm working on and asked for feedback. I sent...
Where to now? 25 May 2013 | 02:48 pm
These last few months have been hard work! Mid-March we released the Controlled trials filter in Trip. 500,000 trials, all easily searchable and incorporated into Trip. Also in mid-March I presente...
Full-text access 22 May 2013 | 06:25 pm
It's only been a few days but already lots of people and institutions are taking advantage of our link-outs to full-text. Today we went through the 150 institutions barrier, which astounds me, well i...
New upgrades to Trip 17 May 2013 | 05:40 pm
We've released a bunch of upgrades to the site, some really powerful others simply useful! The screengrab below (click on it to enlarge) highlights the major changes. Full-text links: We've used two...
Instant reviews 9 May 2013 | 11:30 am
In February I posted an article discussing 'the near instantaneous meta-analysis'. In a nutshell - is there a way to very rapidly combine the results of multiple-trials? Since then we have been quite...
Local content on Trip 3 May 2013 | 01:46 pm
In a meeting yesterday we discussed the concept of institutional 'accounts' with regard to our soon to be released full-text link-outs. In this scenario an institution (hospital, university etc) would...
The power of blogs 28 Apr 2013 | 11:08 am
I've been writing on this blogs for years - since 2006. Since 2008 we've been tracking the page views (how often people read an article) and that it over 111,000 times. Most articles get around 200-5...
