Scurvy Scarer

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  the website

Inspiration

Inspired by the theme of "pirates" (as well as the fact my programming abilities aren't advanced enough to make something much more complicated), I came up with this while brainstorming a bunch of different pirate themed ideas.

What it does

It takes in information from the user such as their age, biological sex, weight, and how many days they'll be on their journey, and uses a machine learning algorithm to process that data and predict how many oranges they should bring with them in order to avoid getting scurvy. The files for the website are stored on a flash drive so the website can be accessed on the seven seas where there is poor internet connection.

How we built it

I used google collab + a dataset on recommended vitamin C intake to make the machine learning algorithm (thank you Python and your slew of machine learning libraries), and then built the website in VS Code with HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Afterwards, all the files were transferred to a flash drive so the website could be accessed from anywhere without an internet connection.

Challenges we ran into

Getting a good dataset was particularly difficult, but I'd say building the website was the hardest part since I didn't know how to make a website beforehand. I had to look up a lot of tutorials. Getting all the files to work properly on the flash drive was a bit of a struggle too since I didn't realize at first that they all had to be in the same folder and the URL path to them in the HTML code had to be formatted in a specific way.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud of actually completing it, and having done this all solo. The first time I went to a hackathon I wasn't able to help my teammates with any of the programming since I didn't know how to code, but this time I did the project solo and coded the whole thing by myself.

What we learned

I learned some basics about building websites, a little bit about UI/UX, and some stuff about how websites work (like how your device actually sends a request to servers to download all the files for the website, and that's why it's able to be stored on a flash drive and accessed without issues, assuming you don't need to communicate with the original server for more information).

What's next for Scurvy Scarer

Probably going to leave it at this! It'd be cool to learn more advanced machine learning algorithms though and make more complex projects, like a pirate translator / voice modifier.

Built With

• css
• html
• javascript
• machine-learning
• numpy
• pandas
• python
• scikit-learn
• xcel