BBGs - Policy Aggregator

Main Page
Policies within filtered years and categories

Inspiration

We were inspired to create a policy aggregator as we realized that it is challenging for Singaporeans who have been overseas for an extended duration of time to keep up with the policy changes in Singapore. Much like how a gamer would need to read patch notes when they have not played a game in a while.

What it does

Consolidates all policies into a centralized location for ease of visualization

How we built it

We web scraped the policies and dates from Wikipedia, categorized them, and transformed the data into JSON format. We then built a front-end based on the Vue framework to filter and display the relevant policies from the JSON data.

Challenges we ran into

Lack of a centralized database of policy changes in Singapore. Required us to search for policies across various sources.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that we thought of something that has not been done (we think). We are also proud that we came up with a functioning site during this short span of time.

What we learned

We learned how to web scrape, clean data, develop the consumer-facing site, the proper ideation process such as user-journey and persona development. We also learned how to delegate tasks amongst the team as the time we have is limited and we have to work fast.

What's next for BBGs - Policy Aggregator

This project could be expanded to include Natural Language Processing (NLP) to process policies and classify them according to their sectors/categories, allowing users to view policies more efficiently

Recommender systems could also be added in future iterations of the project to recommend specific sector search users based on other users with similar demographics on Singpass.