Inspiration
As students, it was always a struggle finding the solutions to our problems online. As such we set out to devise an innovative solution, leveraging technological breakthroughs to find exactly what we need with the click of a button.
What it does
ConTECHxt is a chrome extension that recognizes keywords in your browser searches based on a database supported by a machine learning model and uses them to provide you with more relevant articles and potential solutions that you would have never come across.
How we built it
We used HTML, PHP, CSS and JavaScript to create the chrome extension and connected it to a MySQL database. We then wrote a web scraping script using Python that analyzes the website and categorizes it based on a list of dynamically changing keywords to keep things relevant.
Challenges we ran into
Setting up the database without an external server was a bit troublesome. We are also not the most acquainted with JavaScript or PHP.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We began with a challenging concept and managed to bring it to fruition.
What we learned
All in all, there was a lot that we were able to learn. We were able to improve our web design skills and work with many different libraries.
What's next for ConTECHxt
In the future, we would like to look into a proper trained machine learning model that is capable of generating the most relevant keywords, work with a graph database that is able to handle complex relationships between nodes, and is deployable across clusters.
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