Calgary Flood Prediction

Inspiration

We were interested to see how we could possibly provide an early warning system for flooding in Calgary

What it does

Uses an ml model to predict the volume of the bow river based on snowpack and potential rainfall

How I built it

We took the data fromrivers.alberta.ca and created a dataframe that contains hourly data for nearly 20 years over the summer months to train a model using sklearn. Our front end uses react/typescript to provide a graph with historical data and our predicted river flow.

Challenges I ran into

We struggled with manipulating the data so that it worked

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Learned some new skills including Docker which was cool to see in use and really helped us to get it running on everyones machine

What I learned

Things take more time than you think they will.

What's next for Calgary Flood Prediction

We would like to incorporate weather into the prediction. This would be very helpful to give the user a more accurate flood prediction app.

Built With

• docker
• fastapi
• python
• react
• sklearn
• typescript