2-3 Sentences

Describe the topic (2-3 sentences).

In today’s world millions of individuals donate nonperishable goods to food banks in order to close the chasm between compensation and supplemental nutrition assistance programs. However, with a growing population and millions of hungry people, it is highly difficult to feed everyone. With that being said, a team of engineers in North Carolina has used systems and considerable amounts of data to improve programs that feed the hungry.

Provide links to the coverage.

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132740

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/12/15/big-data-food-bank

Give your opinion and compare the stories. (2-3 sentences).

Considering that the world population

is predetermined to increase by one billion within a twelve-year time frame, I think improving programs that feed the hungry is a superb idea. The two articles seem to compliment each other because Engineering a Better Food Bank states the steps that were taken, the data that was collected and what better plans were developed from the research results while Can Big Data Help Build a Better Food Bank? briefly mentioned the early steps but mostly focused on how the plans have been implemented. The vice president, Charlie Hale, of the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, speaks highly of the implemented programs, discussed in the first article, stating that, “Over the past seven or eight years, distribution has gone from thirty millions pounds to nearly fifty-four million pounds at the end of the fiscal year 2013.

Discuss how you might change coverage (3-4 sentences).

Both of the articles were written satisfactorily in my opinion. Each article seemed to properly reach the audience with interesting information and strong keywords that had value and share ability. However, in terms of changing the coverage, I would like to combine the articles together because they both could create a cause-effect piece of writing.