Beep Boop

decisiontree
gbr

Inspiration

We all remember how chaotic covid-19 was when it hit us in 2020. But imagine how the dinosaurs felt when the cosmos endeavored to wipe them out? We are using meteors as a fun metaphor for how covid-19 affected and continues to affect us humans on a weekly basis to jive with the Jurassic park theme of this Hackathon.

What it does

This program displays, makes predictions and warns about what direction covid cases are trending in by using dinosaurs and meteors as symbols for humans and covid rates.

How we built it

We built it using python in Visual Studio Code and Github Desktop to display and synchronize our progress as we added more data.

Challenges we ran into

There were a couple of challenges we faced, for example:

On the machine learning side, one of the difficulties was finding the right model so that predictions would be as accurate as possible, and to avoid underestimating the danger of covid. The first decision we made was using the decision tree model, and it underestimated the danger too much, which would end up giving people the false impression that covid was less dangerous than it really was.
One beginner member couldn't get VS code working on their Chromebook laptop.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

There were many things we accomplished, to name a few : Our team is proud to have added all of the data on to Visual Studio Code.

We quickly learned our lesson with our first challenge and ended up using a gradiant boosting model, which greatly reduced the amount of underestimating that our model would do, increasing its precision.
The beginner ended up figuring it out with help from other team members how to install VS code on their Chromebook.
Crossing the finish line and getting our project done on time