Foodborne Chicago is a website that connects people who complain about food poisoning on Twitter to the people who can help them out— the Chicago Department of Public Health.
We use computers & code to search Twitter for tweets related to food poisoning in Chicago. We do as much as we can to automatically zero-in on the tweets we think are really about a possible food poisoning case and really coming from Chicago. Then real humans review the tweets and @reply back to people with a link back to this page. More detail here. Questions? We’ve got answers.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awarded this project a Prototype Fund grant in January 2014. The Chicago Community Trust is the fiscal sponsor for this grant and is supportive in many other ways.