Home Safe

Get you and your loved ones home safe with our revolutionary routing app!

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Inspiration

Going through NYPD and San Francisco public safety datasets, we were inspired by the location driven analysis that we might be able to do. Wanting to create an app that was more than just a GPT wrapper, we decided to explore the human element that binds all communities together. Crafted with care, love, and dedication, we set out to create Home Safe, an app that protects, informs, and unites all throughout America's cities.

What it does

Our app is built off of two pieces of data analysis, one from historical trends of crimes in different cities across the US, and a second crowdsourced data source, where users can rate walking and driving routes all across their cities based on safety. We can't fix unwalkable, pedestrian unfriendly cities in a day nor can we stop violent crimes and car accidents, but we can create a digital platform, allowing people to gauge the safety of their walks, drives, and one day bikes.

How we built it

First we parsed millions of rows of data from NYPD and San Francisco data sets using R and Python Pandas. Then we implemented a web app using Vite React Typescript. We make many different calls to the Google Maps API in order to find route options and display an index of unsafe areas for people.

Challenges we ran into

Our main challenge was with the Google Maps API, which had some pieces which did not play nice within our react project.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

All of our team worked very hard to make our website as clean and cohesive as possible, despite all of us having little UI development experience! Two of our members learned the React framework almost entirely from scratch and ended up contributing lots to our project which was incredible!

What we learned

During the hackathon, the four of us dove deep into the power of Python, R, and React Vite, refreshing many old skills. Python and R taught us the beauty of (not so) rapid data handling, and while React Vite challenged us to create seamless, fast, and responsive user interfaces. We also learned a lot about resilience under pressure.

What's next for Home Safe

We hope to continue to improve our UI, making it more modern and clean. In the future we hope to support user suggested/curated routes that can highlight the many amazing parts of their cities for visitors. And, of course, we hope to continue gathering more data in order to ever more effectively get people Home Safe.

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