Exploring the Impact of Covid19 in Montreal

Inspiration

To provide useful solutions we first needed to understand the issues at hand. That mindset drove our team to explore how the status of businesses across Greater Montreal has affected the needs of the citizens that request Centraide's services. Along with the coaching of AI experts gathered at the 2020 Hackathon, we propose a solution to predict future impact of bankruptcy of for-profit and non-for-profits businesses.

What it does

How we built it

Challenges we ran into

A consensus of the main direction we wanted to take this project was a huge undertaking. Language barriers to understand the data, conflicts of interests and asynchronous communication were all factors that reduced our collaborative drive. However, through the help of mentors such as Olivier Foster, Nithum Thain, Mathieu Chaurette as well as more in-depth exploration of external open datasets available, we were able to resolve our struggles.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Provided visualizations and a tool that members of Centraide and other organizations for social good can use to improve their services and be more informed about how they can prepare themselves to support their communities.

What we learned

We learned that to have a functioning team is to have a good leader. This role was fluid between the members and caused much of the lack of direction and unity we felt. Therefore, for the next Hackathons we attend we will be more mindful of how to improve team dynamics and more effective networking.