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To The Moon And Back: Taking The Leap Towards Solving Big Problems – Front Porch Front-End Developer Conference, Dallas, TX

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Presented by Julia Elman

 The Past

  • 1960: The Cultural Decade
  • Kennedy “get to the moon” speech
  • 1969 moon landing
  • New found awareness (earth’s atmosphere, etc.)
    • 1970 – EPA founded, Comprehensive clean air act, Earth Day founded
    • 1971 – Doctors without borders
    • 1972 – DDT was banned
    • “We went to the moon, but discovered the Earth for the first time.”

The Present

MIT Technology Review – You promised me Mars colonies, instead I got Facebook. (Buzz Aldrin)

Why aren’t we solving global problems with technology any more? We tend to over-engineer solutions.

Malaria, Cancer, etc.

We can solve big problems with 3 things aligned.

  1. Our institution supports solutions
  2. We actually understand the problem
  3. Active political leader and public working together to solve the problem.

The Future

Education – Logo programming on Apple IIe

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Kate Brigham – PatientsLikeMe: Adventures with Data Visualizations

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UIE Web App Master’s Tour – Seattle, Washington – May 24, 2011

Kate Brigham - PatientsLikeMe - Adventures with Data Visualizations
Kate Brigham - Adventures with Data Visualizations

8 in 10 internet users have looked online for health information

patientslikeme helps patients track chronic conditions and learn from the experience from other people who are experiencing the same symptoms, medications and conditions

People share stories as part of a typical conversation. PatientsLikeMe tracks all data about members by translating stories into data.

Given my status, what is the best outcome I can hope to achieve and how do I get there? – establish a baseline for member engagement

Make it easy for people to create data

If you’re asking people to invest time and energy to give you the data, let them know how it will benefit them.

Don’t be afraid to experiment.

Make forms easy

Start with questions that are easy to answer and don’t use jargon…

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