Trailblazer

Trailblazers
Mapbox API to show locations
Plot that shows how many english reviews the places have
Table showing top 15 list of locations in a chosen city. Star signifies the most reviews in english and Sinhalese script signifies the least

Inspiration

We wanted to help English speakers discover notable places within foreign cities that many other English speakers have gone to.

What it Does

Our interactive web page allows users to select a city and category to view the top 15 locations of that category within the specified city, sorted by total number of reviews. There is a star next to the location with the most English reviews and a Sinhalese script next to the location with the least. The user can use the map to get directions to a chosen location.

How We Built It

We used Tour-Pedia's API to fetch data about the locations, categories, and reviews. Then we used pandas to clean the data. This data was then analyzed and implemented into our webpage through JavaScript and HTML. We also used MapBox's API to implement a map on our webpage.

Challenges We Ran Into

The data retrieved from Tour-Pedia's API had multiple missing or incorrect values and required extensive cleaning for it to be usable.
Accessing the data for the reviews required accessing specific rows in the data frame and creating a new data frame with the data.

Accomplishments We Are Proud Of

We retrieved the data from the API and managed to visualize it
We created a functioning webpage and incorporated a working map into it

What We Learned

Data Manipulation and Visualization with Pandas
API Usage (MapBox, Tour-Pedia)
Team Communication and Problem Solving

What's Next

Currently, Tour-Pedia's API only has data for 8 cities with reviews from 2012-2013. The next steps for Trailblazer are to gather data on more cities with reviews written more recently to provide travelers with the most updated information.