Apps & More/பயன்பாடுகள் & மேலும்

USEFUL RESOURCES (June 2014)

App: Housing Market App (Link)

Web app using R & Shiny showing the variation in median new home price (MNHP) to median household income (MHI) in US between the years 1975 to 2012

APP OBJECTIVE:

Common masses, who are either busy with their own schedule or not into data analysis, are looking for simple charts and pointers. This app should help common people to get some idea on how the median new home prices (with respect to median income) has varied over a period of time.

Please take prudent decisions while deciding on larger investments - Consider the following:

i. your savings,

ii. job stability,

iii. your needs and wants,

iv. your short and long-term goals,

v. location,

vi. size of the house to name a few.

If you're not an investor, and looking into buying stability through home purchase, perform thorough analysis through reliable, trustworthy sources before getting into this investment. Please also understand that one of the sources for housing bubbles happens to be when even one person with not much financial stability buys a house, and sets a precedence for others. Though that person might gain in the short-term, we have learned from the recent burst how such crashes impact the entire economy.

Key variables to consider:

Cumulative life time earnings, and home prices with respect to median household income. Having low interest is of no value, when there is no stability and real wage growth (price increases in health care, education, household expenses etc outweighs wage growth).

********** Remember, "Prosperity makes friends, Adversity tries them". *********

QUANTA$AVERS (WIP)

This initiative is directed towards financial discipline & management

CHEMISENSE - WEARABLE QUALITY MONITOR

1. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530011/an-air-quality-monitor-you-take-with-you/

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lfn-OaoX5Q

As presented in the YouTube video, this unique concept to monitor asthma triggering chemicals in a proactive manner using innovative polymer based resistor technology certainly has value in the marketplace. Moreover, this technology encompasses various areas of focus such as, Computer Science, Chemistry, Engineering and Physics combined with crowdsourcing of data addressing the system thinking process. There are three major concerns that the team needs to consider:

1. The target audience

2. Proactive monitoring can promote stress and trigger Asthma (http://www.webmd.com/asthma/guide/stress-asthma)

3. Monitoring air quality does not solve the actual problem

The age group that we are talking about places this product in a tough spot. We are talking about kids, and teenagers, who may not wear these gadgets on a regular basis due to social pressure, or due to intrinsic playful nature of the kids. Moreover, a close proactive monitoring in the form of wearable gadget can cause anxiety amongst these kids, and potentially trigger stress-based asthma, whenever there is any deviation in the air quality from the norms. Most importantly, such wearable gadget does not serve the primary objective of improving the air quality.

Instead of making a wearable gadget, this group can look into collaborating with townships, municipalities and districts to install such monitors, and to generate heat map at different locations. Just my 2 cents thought .

Initial Product: https://angel.co/chemisense

Current Product: http://chemisense.co/features/