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openFDA is an FDA project to provide open APIs, raw data downloads, documentation and examples, and a developer community for an important collection of FDA public datasets.

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2014-06-02 · latest 2025-10-08

Mentions per year 5 mentions · busiest year 2019 (2)
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  1. …collaboration and through linked data (e.g. URIs for columns). See: "Open, and Linked, FDA data" https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/5#issuecomment-5392966 ... and "ENH: Adverse Event Count / 'Use' Count Heatmap"…
    comment by westurner · 2025-10-08 · in Improving Clinical Trial Design
  2. …run OCR on them. Since the website is open source, there's even a github issue confirming this: https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/200
  3. …collaboration and through linked data (e.g. URIs for columns). See: "Open, and Linked, FDA data" https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/5#issuecomment-5392966... and "ENH: Adverse Event Count / 'Use' Count Heatmap"…
    comment by westurner · 2019-12-26 · in Announcing the New PubMed
  4. …collaboration and through linked data (e.g. URIs for columns). See: "Open, and Linked, FDA data" https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/5#issuecomment-5392966... and "ENH: Adverse Event Count / 'Use' Count Heatmap"…
  5. …on Jekyll ( https://github.com/FDA/open.fda.gov ) and its API is powered with Python and Node.js ( https://github.com/FDA/openfda )...It's not just the framework/current-tooling that is nice, but that such systems use open, readable…