Inspiration
I always open up the Yelp app intending to find a great place to eat that meets all my personal needs. But I always end up getting so many results, having to balance factors from cost to reviews to cuisine to distance, I end up just picking something randomly off the first few restaurants on the list.
What it does
Provides a conversational interface to food-related data sources, ranging from Yelp to food safety scores: compiling them into a single personality. It makes small-talk, gives information on restaurants, collects user food preferences and habits, intelligently suggests restaurants and corrects accordingly. It also has cool UI tricks to make usage smoother: such as simply snapping a pic of nearby stores to get a quick and frictionless overview.
How I built it
Heaping together eclectic data sources, online APIs, online cognitive services, custom neural networks and other machine learning models such as random forests - all while building as smooth and intuitive of a conversational UI as possible.
Challenges I ran into
Model: 89 hours ETA (training) Hackathon: over in 12 hours
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Actually pulling everything together. I've competed my past half dozen hackathons in teams, and it's always turned out great, but I really wanted to see how far I could go on my own merit.
What I learned
How to use Microsoft cognitive services, Azure - had to debug some low-level Tensorflow-Keras issues. Also learned about a bunch of neat datasets.
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