Inspiration

AMEX Challenge problem #2 build a way to ask a natural language question and get a response

What it does

  1. Search Foursquare for locations of favorite charities
  2. Get Google News API top hits for the charity
  3. Ask questions and responds using preset paragraphs on a SQL DB.

How I built it

Laravel 5 PHP Framework and a MySQL Database

Challenges I ran into

Comparing 2 lists via mysql. Solved it by just getting all the info and running a O(n^3) triple for loop.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Not drinking coffee or redbull at all.

What I learned

Creatively diagnose a problem to try to get it done under a time constraint.

What's next for Ask about Red Cross (AMEX Challenge Q2)

More paragraphs, better algorithm for ranking.

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