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Fresh Water , a Cleveland-based e-magazines that covers happenings in Northeast Ohio, highlighted a project at Case Western University 's Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development called NEO CANDO .
NEO CANDO, a publicly accessible database, provides one-stop-shopping for anyone looking to research property information in their neighborhood. The site allows users to go beyond researching individual properties and look at snapshots of neighborhoods—including which properties are at risk of foreclosure and which have been condemned. The site also contains social, economic and census data.
The site is a resource for public officials, academics, and residents alike to understand trends in local communities.On Computerworld , Sean Chai, Kaiser Permanente's director of innovation technology for the Innovation & Advanced Technology Team, discusses the social and data-driven direction for innovation in the healthcare sector. Social data is becoming an increasingly important source of information for patients and for professionals. He writes:
According to a recent Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey , about 33 percent of U.S. consumers use social media websites like Facebook and Twitter to obtain health information and track/share symptoms. Seventy-two percent of respondents said they would use social media sites for scheduling physician appointments, and 42 percent of respondents reported they have used social media to look up consumer reviews of health treatments or physicians.
This week, the White House announced its first group of Presidential Innovation Fellows . A subgroup of fellows will be working on the White House Open Data Initiatives, meant to "accelerate and expand Administration efforts to make government data more publicly accessible in 'computer-readable' form and spur the use of those data by entrepreneurs as fuel for the creation of new products, services, and jobs." Fellows will work within and across issue areas—health, education, energy, etc.—to make government data more usable by researchers, journalists, innovators, and the public at large. Video of the Fellowships ceremony below.
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