Inspiration
Provide education and create awareness among common user in India for various risk occurs in someone's life.
What it does
It gather basic demographic details from user and calculate risk factors for different categories. Based on user input and calculated risk factors it filters available market product available in life insurance. User can compare trade-off between filtered products and can choose best products suits to his need. As part of hackathon it only include life insurance risk advisor.
Demo: http://step-risk-advisor.mybluemix.net/ Code : https://github.com/talCrafts/risk-advisor
How we built it
Application is built up using Polymer and Spring boot framework. IBM bluemix trade-off analytics service is used to provide trade-off between various life insurance products.
Challenges we ran into
We faces issues integrating spring boot and tradeoff analytics. We tried watson-sdk services but faced issues with watson api which were modifying the request. Enabling trade-off servlet also conflicted with other spring boot controller.
Setting up basic UI with polymer to start initial integration.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to put up a POC with polymer, spring boot and bluemix tradeoff-analytics. We were able to put up our design of helping common user to advise life insurance projects.
What we learned
- Learnt lot about IBM bluemix watson services.
- How to work as a team in hackathon.
- What to do and what not to do in hackathon.
What's next for risk-advisor
- We want to get more details from user for different categories and available data feeds.
- We will be utilizing open data sources available to put up basic data models which will help to calculate risks for various categories.
- Based on user profile and risk in various categories, risk-advisor will suggest suitable product to user for comparision.
- Personal risk advisor will help user to make better decision and create insurance awareness in India market.
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