FDA Adverse Event Reporting System
This repo provides scripts to download, process, and analyze adverse event data from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System. The data is stored in a SQLite database. Analysis is carried out using the faers library.
Instructions
1. Install SQLite
sudo apt-get install sqlite
2. Install BeautifulSoup
sudo pip install BeautifulSoup
or
sudo apt-get install python-beautifulsoup
3. Install urllib2
sudo pip install urllib3
or
sudo apt-get install python-urllib3
4. Install drugstandards
sudo pip install drugstandards
5. Download and import FDA data from FDA AERS
./download_data.sh
./import_faers_data.sh
6. Standardize drug names
./create_drug_map.py
