Help Wanted! Re: A searchable database of all "Ask Dr. Tony" Questions
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2024
- 1/30/2023
Hi folks
This is Craig. Many (I mean MANY!) of you have written in asking for such a database to make it simpler to find past programs where Dr. Tony has talked about a favorite subject. This is a GREAT idea... and one that we'd hoped to install years ago! But we've never gotten around to it. So I'm asking for help from some talented person(s) in our Autism Community to help make it happen.
This short (3 -minute) video tells you what I'm after. If you're a DB person or SEO type, I'm all ears as to how to do it better. But I think what I'm asking for will work.
And if you're someone with the time, inclination, skills and compassionate heart to do this, please know how much you are appreciated... not just by me and Dr. T, but all the folks in our community looking for better ways to "thrive with autism!" Write me, ask me questions or tell me what you can do.
Thank you in advance for your help. I'll be recording Dr. Tony's 2/2023 episode later today. Just wanted to put this out there ahead of time in case someone volunteers and Tony and I can talk about it in the show.
Peace and appreciation, friends.
Craig and Dr. Tony
www.autismhangout.com
Don’t know if help is still needed at this point. I am new to the show and have found myself wanting exactly what you have proposed. I’m happy to help out. Data categorization via spreadsheets is a special interest of mine, so at least you can know my records of the shows will be accurate and organized.
We’re good. But thank you for offering!
This is an amazing idea to catalogue your extremely valuable series with Dr. Tony, Craig! I'm sure they'll be plenty of people willing to help. It's unrealistic for me rn due to my disability, but I'm leaving a comment to help the algorithm!
Thank you! I am hopeful somebody with DB skills, perhaps one of the gifts of Asperger’s, can come in here and make quick work of this!
Unfortunately I can’t help neither but just wanted to let you know that your work is very much appreciated! Learned so much that helped me and my boyfriend. I also got him the mentioned book years ago. Thanks and fingers crossed!🤞
Hello helpful friends! First, CONFESSIONS! I've never assembled a searchable database before! So I'm hoping, whomever you are, volunteering to help (bless you!), you have some experience in building them. I'm quite certain the specifics I'm asking for are the most important variables, but how that might be entered into a spreadsheet (making it searchable) is the limit of my knowledge. So I'm open to suggestions! If you are a DB/SEO person, I'll follow your lead. And if you're a wonderful, good-hearted non-DB person willing to watch the shows just to record the data (bless you!), I'm hoping a DB person comes along that I can coordinate the 2 (or 3 or more) of you so this helpful reference can come into being. Just thinking about Dr. Attwood's comments over the years, this repository of his knowledge (wit and optimism) NEEDS to be AROUND FOREVER! Thank you for considering helping! Craig
I have created a spreadsheet with a detailed breakdown of many of the episodes however I have been having difficulty contacting you via your website. I tried leaving a comment here yesterday with a link to a Google spreadsheet with the breakdown of the episodes listed one per sheet however I suspect my comment was blocked due to the link I embedded in the message. Any way, I have a solution for you and would be happy to share what I have done so far.
@sitedev Chris-Write me using the “contact form” at Autismhangout. Craig
Hi, I'm a profesional full-stack web developer, and I could help make the searchable database and put it online. Also, I noticed that the website is offline, maybe I could help with that too.
Is there a plan how to make visible for the helping ones which episode is "under construction"? Otherwise two (or more) people will work on the same episode... This would be ineffective.
Great idea, great project, great channel. Thank you so much!
Yes. And yes. At this point, I’m simply hoping capable folks come forward.
I have created a spreadsheet with a detailed breakdown of many of the episodes however I have been having difficulty contacting you via your website. I tried leaving a comment here yesterday with a link to a Google spreadsheet with the breakdown of the episodes listed one per sheet however I suspect my comment was blocked due to the link I embedded in the message. Any way, I have a solution for you and would be happy to share what I have done so far.
Thanks Chris. Send me your email address at the autism hangout website and I’ll write u back.
Not sure what you have in mind by "searchable database."
You could have a large text document on your website, which would list all the shows/questions. This document could then be searched using regular text search (e.g. search for every instance of the word 'marriage').
Besides that, what kind of searches do you want to perform?
Is the database still available to search?
Yes. www.searchdrtony.com
I'd like to help, but I need to make sure I don't put the effort in should someone else be doing the same, thus creating duplicates...
Hi Pennie. Thank you for answering. Are you a database expert? Craig