Google Unwrapped

Inspiration

We were inspired by Spotify Wrapped, a fun addition to Spotify that allows users to easily view their listening history. https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/

What it does

Google Unwrapped allows users to easily view the data that Google collects on them without any prior programming knowledge required. Currently, we show fun Youtube statistics, but we plan to implement more serious statistics, such as Google maps data (yes, Google tracks your location) and text-message history.

How we built it

We built this project using Godot to show off all of the fancy graphics. We also used Python in the background to parse the data delivered from Google.

Challenges we ran into

Since we made this project with users who may not be technologically advanced in mind, we opted to give the user the most automatic experience that we could offer. This meant that we had to use all of the default options for sources of data that Google provides, and thus, we had to parse much of our data from an enormous HTML file. This parsing takes quite some time, but we resolved the issue by using a faster parsing engine than the default parsing engine.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We collected the data that we wanted to, and have a really nice presentation to go along with it!

What we learned

We learned how to parse data from an HTML file, CSV file, and even started learning how to parse data from a JSON file! However, the bigger lesson that we learned this weekend: persistence. Even though the Data from Google was formatted in a way that was difficult to access, we pressed forward and achieved our goals through persistence and determination.