econ_examiner

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Inspiration

I took a course in college on Consumer Economics that had me reading the book "Common Sense Economics." I wanted to use the principles outlined in that book for effective government policy in order to evaluate proposed legislation.

What it does

This program uses basic rules to detect concepts within the legislation that could impact the economy in certain fixed ways.

How we built it

I built this using python3, and using principles outlined in "Common Sense Economics."

Challenges we ran into

I had trouble making the rules inclusive to different forms of words and spellings, but in the end got it figured out pretty simply by using word stems.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud of the economic integration from the book I utilized (simply because I absolutely love that book... I read from it every day to keep my mind focused on economic impacts of events and actions in my life).

What we learned

I learned that using rules rather than AI is much simpler, and yet less extensive in its functionality.

What's next for econ_examiner

In the future, I'd love to build an AI, or at least a ChatGPT model to give more depth to the reasoning returned by the program. This could be used in schools to educate students on the potential impacts of current legislation on the lives of consumers.

Built With

• python