The Potluck Problem

Potluck: Data Mash-Up Tool for Casual Users

As more and more reusable structured data appears on the Web, casual users will want to take into their own hands the task of mashing up data rather than wait for mash-up sites to be built that address exactly their individually unique needs. In this paper, we present Potluck, a Web user interface that lets casual users —those without programming skills and data modeling expertise—mash up data ...

Potluck Protections for Handicapped Discriminatees: The Need to Amend Title VII to Prohibit Discrimination on the Basis of Disability

Potluck: Semi-Ontology Alignment for Casual Users

Potluck is a web user interface (Figure 1) that lets casual users— those without programming skills and data modeling expertise—merge and repurpose heterogeneous Semantic Web data. It lets users merge, navigate, visualize, and clean up data all at the same time, using direct visual manipulation. This iterative process of integrating the data while constructing useful visualizations is desirable...

Large Outbreak of Botulism Associated with a Church Potluck Meal — Ohio, 2015

On April 21, 2015, the Fairfield Medical Center (FMC) and Fairfield Department of Health contacted the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) about a patient suspected of having botulism in Fairfield County, Ohio. Botulism is a severe, potentially fatal neuroparalytic illness.* A single case is a public health emergency, because it can signal an outbreak. Within 2 hours of health department notificati...

Theory and practice of free food in hospitals: a guide for the hungry hospitalist.

Anyone who has spent time in an American hospital must have noticed the abundance of free food. Whether breakfast at morning Grand Rounds, a drug representative teaching conference, or a potluck meal in the nursing lounge, free food is ubiquitous. Over the span of 2 decades, much work has been done in the bourgeoning fi eld of hospital medicine, but this subject has been starved of attention. I...