Sunday, June 10, 2012

Psychedelic Drug Research and the Data-Mining Revolution

ethylphenethylamine which has the street name Europa.

They collected 1000 narrative reports on these drugs and mined the text for common words, while screening out some words that are common to more than five drugs. 

Having identified signature words, they then tested their hypothesis by seeing whether the results could be used to accurately predict which drug the reports referred to.

It turns out that some drug reports are much easier to classify than others. Ecstasy reports tends to use words such as

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