Inspiration
America has a growing population of non-native english speakers. This population have very limited ways of staying in touch with the issues afflicting where they live.
What it does
Pulls public hearings and creates a cited article in any language for all to read
How we built it
We leveraged Donovan from Scale to create cited articles after scraping public hearing transcripts using python. We display the results on a React app that works with a Django server
Challenges we ran into
We had to learn django on the fly and it gave us issues. Designing and how to present the info
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We got through a lot of hurdles in django and donovan's api
What we learned
We learned how to utilize django and donovan
What's next for PublicConvo
Support with other cities
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