Map challenge

Create a simple google map for a rural area of Dodomaa, Tanzania

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Inspiration

How I built it

We used python (Pandas, Pytorch) for handling data and Tableau for visualization

Challenges I ran into

There are many challenges that we ran into.

  • First, the data set is very big. We got the longitude and latitude of 8192 x 8192 x 64 pixels to work with. We have to use google cloud to run our code and have to optimize the calculation many times.
  • Secondly, since working with floating-point requires an insane amount of computer memory, we try to work with pixels location and then scale back to the actual long and lat. However, the distance between each pixel is not a constant, so our calculation is off a little bit.
  • Thirdly, there are 2 questions for this competition and we cannot solve the second one if we cannot finish the first one.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We have applied a lot of mathematics and python knowledge to make our code run.

What I learned

We never deal with this type of problem before, so the challenge was a whole new experience for us. We learned that there are so many global size problems that we can solve using data science, including improving the lives of underdeveloped countries and millions of unfortunate people on earth

Future work

We have everything figured out. The only thing that we need is time to run the code. We definitely look into it after this competition and complete what we had left.

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