All Human Diseases: A Draft List from Scientific Sources

All Human Diseases is a draft list of human diseases compiled by the author 'nisten' and hosted on Hugging Face. The dataset is described as being based on scientific evidence-based medicine, with sources including the CDC's health topics. The dataset was last updated on August 19, 2024, and is noted as a work in progress with more data expected.

Use Cases

• Building a structured disease ontology based on the listed disease names.
• Training or evaluating medical concept normalization models using the disease list.
• Cross-referencing disease information with other evidence-based medical sources mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Explicitly states a focus on scientific evidence-based medicine, excluding opinions.
• Provides a direct link to a collaborative Google Doc for community feedback and issue reporting.
• License is specified as AGPL to prevent predatory use.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Sources include the CDC health topics page, with a link to a full description on the Hugging Face dataset page.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from public health and medical sources, though the specific curation method is not detailed.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-08-19 06:44:28; freshness should be verified.