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Greatest-Gallon

Kyle McNamara, Sean Coughlin, James Austgen, Isaac Warren

General Program Description

Greatest Gallon helps Champaign-Urbana decide where to find the cheapest gas. Greatest Gallon displays where to get the cheapest gas on a Wolfram Interactive interactive map for these organizations to help reduce their costs.

Python Script parseGasStops (parseGasStops.py)

Takes in an excel spreadsheet and an alphabetized version of the spreadsheet by gas station name.

Calculates average unit cost from every transaction that took place during the year. Calculates average unit cost for each individual gas station.

Returns 2D array containing each gas station’s name, address, number of units recorded, the difference of A and B (the difference of the averages), average difference of the unit cost of each gas station and the total average unit cost (A-B) / number of units recorded, percent difference between the station’s average and the total average, and average cost per gallon.

Returns as a csv file.

Wolfram Program (gas3.nb)

Takes in csv file that parseGasStops returns.

Uses Wolfram to create a dynamic map showing each gas station with a color to display how cheap or expensive it is (from green (cheap) to red (expensive)). When the user clicks an individual gas station, more information will be shown including the gas station name, address, average unit cost, average difference between its average and the total average, and the percent difference.

Project Video (GreatestGallon_Wolfram_Output.mp4)

Example video of how the program runs in Wolfram One desktop.

Note

This project was intended to be deployed as a web application; however, Wolfram One Cloud doesn't yet support dynamic maps which are integral to our project. Therefore, for judging purposes we have submitted a video of how it will work once that feature is supported.

Built With

• mathematica
• python
• wolfram-technologies