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Code for Cancer

Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

October 25, 2017 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Launched in September 2017, Cognoma is a database of information regarding the genetic makeup of cancerous tumors developed in collaboration between University of Pennsylvania researchers and Philadelphia’s tech community. Looking for a way to help their community and convinced of the value of the project, people donated their time and coding talents and built the database piece by piece. The database—as well as the programming behind it—are publicly available for researchers to utilize and adapt to other ends.

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Museums Around the World Will Now Text Artworks Directly to Your Phone, Thanks to SFMOMA

Julia Halperin

October 19, 2017 |

Artnet |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The Send Me SFMOMA program allows people to text a number with a request based on a variable such as a object, mood, or color and receive back an image of an appropriate work in the SFMOMA collection. Through this service, which SFMOMA has made open source for other museums to use, the museum is able to connect with the public and ‘display’ a much higher percentage of its holdings.

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Beyond the GPS, Mapping Every Place, Everywhere

Tina Rosenberg

October 17, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: England

Across the world, lack of a precise address has created issues for communities, whether it be in terms of medical treatment, resource drop off, or even simple package deliver. Attempting to address this problem, this piece looks at What3words, a company that will generate a precise address for any location.

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New app Smartify hailed as "Shazam for the art world"

Gunseli Yalcinkaya

October 08, 2017 |

Dezeen |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: England, London

The Smartify app allows people to scan a piece of art—from a painting in a gallery to a postcard in a store—and have the app identify the work and provide additional information.

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Putting needles to numbers: How they're tracking the heroin epidemic in Summit County

Tara Molina

October 05, 2017 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

The existence of an opioid abuse crisis is widely acknowledged, however there is a lack of efficient methodologies to collect, analyze, and disseminate data related to the crisis. The Summit County public health department uses EpiCenter—software created for epidemiologists—to collect data on hospitalizations, overdoses, and calls to emergency services and analyze opioid abuse data in the same way as the flu or other diseases. The data is published online and allows for policy makers to better understand where to allocate resources as well as providing insight to county residents on the extent of opioid abus

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A Better Way to Trace Scattered Refugees

Tina Rosenberg

October 04, 2017 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

The world's 65 million displaced people are not tracked with any cohesive, international database, making reuniting families incredibly difficult. Refunite, a new website with backing from major corporations and international aid agencies, aims to simplify the process and help refugees find lost family members.

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How 'cervical selfies' can help save lives

Amelia Martyn-Hemphill

October 03, 2017 |

BBC |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: Gambia

A new app and scope that attaches to a smartphone camera has the capability to photograph a woman's cervix in high definition and send the photo to clinicians for diagnosis. This device replaces previously very expensive machines that takes similar photos and allows clinics in remote or underserved areas to access the same level of care as patients with more access to healthcare. Additionally, the app stores all of these photos in its database and is actively developing its own diagnostic tools so that in the future, the app can even help physicians to diagnose cervical cancer.

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GPS darts help stop high-speed police chases

Tara Molina

September 28, 2017 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Lucas County, Ohio

With the help of a grant, the sheriff’s department in Lucas County is using GPS-enabled darts to catch criminals who run. Instead of engaging in a dangerous high-speed chase, officers can tag the car with a dart, watch where the car goes on a computer, and meet it when it stops.

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Bound to Pay

Gus Bova

September 26, 2017 |

Texas Observer |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

Libre by Nexus helps immigrants get out of jail, and makes more than $30 million a year doing it. In exchange for providing collateral to bondsmen, the company charges clients, including asylum seekers in desperate situations, huge upfront fees and a $420 monthly rental charge for a required ankle monitor. Multiple lawsuits accuse the company of profiteering off vulnerable people.

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Study suggests when mobile markets take wireless food stamps, more people buy healthy food

Michael D. Regan

September 24, 2017 |

PBS NewsHour |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

People living in food deserts have very limited access to healthy food, prompting 'Green Carts' (street vendors with vegetables and fruits) and other mobile markets to pop up. Critically important to the success of these markets is their provision of Electronic Benefits Transfer machines to allow customers to pay with their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food stamps.

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