SmartCards

Inspiration

Khan Academy! What other ways can we take difficult to learn concepts and help people learn them without getting overwhelmed.

What it does

SmartCards takes a topic entered by a user (e.g. teacher, student, parent) and searches relevant API's like WolframAlpha to build a comprehensive and enriching flashcard set. It then loads those flashcards into CourseHero for you to study and make sure you ace that upcoming exam!

How I built it

A collaborative team focused on taking advantage of all the data available and curating it into smaller learnable chunks that can be digested by people of any age to continue to learn.

Challenges I ran into

The proper scoping of a flashcard set can be very difficult without asking for a lot of input from the user up front. However, with input from the user SmartCards can intelligently learn what topics you are interested in studying.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Creating an generic framework to auto-create sets of flashcards based on very limited effort by the user, but with great value in learning concepts.

What I learned

What's next for SmartCards I

Continuing to build out the knowledge base to more accurately scope sets and retrieve information from existing and available knowledge bases.

Prizes

We want to add the Hacking EDUTech as one of the prizes that we are competing for.

Built With

Submitted to

HackingEDU

Created by

I worked on the backend focusing on extending SmartCards NLP functionality to allow the user to copy and paste their course description from their class syllabus. Then taking that block of text comparing it with a math lexicon to extract math keywords from the text and output a list of math keywords that can then be sent to the WolframAlpha API to generate a set of flashcards for the entire course.

Alexander Barriga
Data Scientist by day - Tango Dancer by night
I worked on API engineering and Natural Language Processing in Python.

Brian Spiering
Data Science Faculty at GalvanizeU
I worked on the python backend with specific focus on NLP to leverage wordnet to find words with similar semantic meaning if the similarity score was over a threshold.

Brandon Fetters
I was reponsible for developing the front end for the application. Having no prior experience with AngularJS, I decided to try and incorporate material design since flash cards would look great on flat UI. It was a difficult task for me to come up with a design and then develop it since I was always used to converting mockups from UXs into UI components. Then came up the task of integrating it with the backend intelligence built by Alexander, Brandon and Brian. Best part is I met up with these 3 awesome people at HackingEDU for the first time and we teamed up together to build this great app to help people of any age start learning stuff.

Joe Manley