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View Visualization: Pedestrian Counts, Arlington, Virginia on Flickr.com There are so many things in just the title of this post that is new learning for me. Let’s count them: There is automated community walking data available, because Arlington, Virginia has installed electronic meters on its walking trails (see: National Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project :: [...]
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View 2012 Datapalooza 13329 on Flickr.com This is how stuff happens around here. One minute you’re sharing stories with a friend whose team happened to win the obesity prevention code-a-thon. The next, you’re watching as the United States Chief Technology Officer Todd Park ( @Todd_Park ) gets a live demo of the app-created-in-2-days by the [...]
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DC Health Week Code-a-Thon 13141 – The School Fit Team – They won! In the weeks leading up to this weekend’s code-a-thon, conversations like this, with respected community organizers like Greg Bloom were happening: @greggish all the more reason 4 u to come. Several #sdoh and #Rxsocial ppl will be there, by design @DCHealthWeek + [...]
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Looking at “your city” – the era of geospatial Yesterday was the first day of DC Health Data and Innovation Week, which started with the HD&IW Code-a-thon: Preventing Obesity. I have actually been at all 3 Washington DC-based code-a-thons, and can say (and celebrate) a paradigm shift, which is really from the individual, to the [...]
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When you take the time to be mindful – View on flickr.com How does it feel when you are at an all day or multi-day event either as an attendee or staff, and you feel trapped by the food choices that are provided for you? Oh, I just gave away the answer. It doesn’t feel [...]
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Obligatory hotsauce shot, hotsauce courtesy @avairs I think I am like tofu when it comes to innovation, I take on the flavor of whatever is around me. If I meet and work with people who are passionate about anything, I tend to pick up their passion, because I feel that passion should never be wasted. [...]
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The hot sauce (view at Flickr.com) If there’s two things I love, it’s walking to anything and applying the best practices of other industries to health care. Oh, and Health 2.0, of course. So I walked to Georgetown to the Health 2.0 Code-a-thon and participated in a cool project that combines what’s being understood about [...]