Oasis

Inspiration

Inspired by food desert research done in sociology, we thought we could replicate the results using open sourced data.

What it does

Generates heat maps based on how close an area is to the nearest grocery store

How we built it

Datasets from Calgary and Edmonton Open Data Datasets for business licenses and city boundaries were processed with pandas, numpy and matplotlib Webserver created using fastAPI and jinja2 templating

Challenges we ran into

Had to precompute data since it would take too long in the API otherwise Filtering Data webserver struggles

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Working webserver and pretty plots

What we learned

Manipulating geospatial data i.e. haversine formula for distance approximation

Built With

• fastapi
• javascript
• matplotlib
• numpy
• pandas
• python