The Ephemeris overview

The Ephemeris charts every public record EphemerisX reads as a single map. Each drug programme (or, on the SEC map, each company) is a cluster of dots. The map shows what is in the system, how much of it has been read, and what is still waiting in the queue.

Open it at ephemerisx.com/ephemeris/.

What the map shows#

• Dots are entities: named things found in the documents, such as a trial, an endpoint, a dose, an adverse event, an organisation or a regulatory concept. Bigger dots are mentioned more often.
• Lines are relations between two entities.
• Clusters are items: one drug programme, FDA record or company. Its dots take the item's colour.
• Shared concepts sit in the middle: one dot for a concept every drug refers to (for example Alzheimer's disease or amyloid beta plaque), linked to each drug that mentions it.

Solid dots are in the built graph. Translucent dots are a projection of what queued documents will add once they are read. See Status and legend reference.

Parts of the screen#

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1. 1List button. Shows or hides the list on the left.
2. 2Breadcrumb. EphemerisX / FDA / SEC. Switches between the overview and the two maps.
3. 3Stats strip. In the graph (entities and relations), Built from (documents and pages read), In the system (documents and pages held) and Last checked.
4. 4Search box. Filters the list and highlights matches on the map. See Search.
5. 5Status key. ● Up to date, ◐ Graph behind, ○ Queued, ◇ Listed only.
6. 6The list. The same items as the map, as text, in groups. Open a row for its documents.
7. 7Group by. Rearranges the map by disease area, drug class, sponsor and more. See Group the map.
8. 8Zoom controls. Zoom in, zoom out, and Fit the whole map.
9. 9The map. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, hover for details, click to select. See Navigate the map.
10. 10Build queue replay. Replays the queued documents at pipeline speed. See Build queue replay.
11. 11Legend. What each colour stands for.
12. 12Data dates. When the graph was built, the record exported, the sources checked and the page generated.

The three views#

See The FDA and SEC maps for what each one covers.

Drug and company pages#

Each drug and company has its own address, such as /ephemeris/fda/leqembi/. It opens the same map zoomed onto that item, with an information card at the top of the list. See Drug and company pages.