Inspiration
A lot of our team moved to the USA at a young age and had trouble fitting in to the community. This inspired us to help people like us find people who are similar to us and make it easier for them to find people they can connect with to become a part of their new community.
What it does
First on our home page you can search for the community that you will soon be moving into. Then you can choose the community you will be joining soon. Which then takes you to the next page where you can explore the interesting things about that community. From there you can go to the survey page to create your own profile to join that specific community. Then our machine learning model retrieves that information and redirect to the next page which shows different profiles that are similar to yours. Then you can read through and find someone who you'd like to help you. Then you can click connect and communicate with them about what you need help with and when.
How we built it
We used HTML, CSS and Javascript to create our multipage website. We used these three languages to crete the home page, the community home page, the survey page, and the matching profiles page. We used python to create our machine learning model, which takes the data from the survey and redirects to a page which shows similar profiles and allows you to connect to those people for anything you need.
Challenges we ran into
One of the major challenges was trying to merge the HTML code with the python ML code because of the language discrepancies. Additionally, acquiring accurate data to train our model was difficult. Furthermore, our ability to use HTML was limited, so we kept on trying to learn as much as we could and after implementing we got more and more proficient at using HTML and CSS.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Some of the main accomplishments that we are most proud of, were creating a machine learning model using a linear regression algorithm. As part of this, we acquired data to accurately train our model. We are also proud of the multi-page interface of our website and how we're able to use CSS to create visually appealing pages.
What we learned
This hackathon was really a big learning experience for all of our group members. We came in with a somewhat limited skill set of coding in HTML and CSS, but over the course of the time, by learning and implementing more and more new code into our website, our ability to use HTML hugely expanded
What's next for Mov'in'
What's next for mov'in' is to add more cities for people to join, and to expand our ability to connect to more people with different abilities, and organize these people by skill sets to make it easier for people to find help in the category they are looking for. For example, people moving in who need help fixing things up in their house, can find people to help them with this.
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