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wirthal1990
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About wirthal1990
The product: a structured phytochemical dataset derived from the USDA Dr. Duke's ethnobotanical database, denormalized and enriched with quantitative signals from PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, ChEMBL, and USPTO PatentsView. Stack: PostgreSQL 15, Python 3.12 (async httpx pipelines), Rust/Actix-Web, Cloudflare Workers/R2.
Three weeks ago I had no idea what a Parquet file was. I stumbled onto a data gap in natural product research and decided to close it.
Interested in the gap between public-domain research databases and production-ready data products — and in what's possible when AI handles the implementation.
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I am not a programmer. I have never written code myself, nor have I ever published anything technical. The pipeline was built entirely by Claude Opus as a coding agent, and the res…
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This matches my experience when building my first real project with Claude. The architectural decisions were entirely up to me: I researched which data sources, schema, and enrichm…
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My experience was exactly the opposite—I came from the other side entirely. I had absolutely no programming knowledge, and until three weeks ago, I didn’t even know what a Parquet …
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I'm working on a phytochemical dataset product. The base is USDA Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases — 16 relational CSV tables that I denormalized into a single …