Inspiration
We wanted to explore what sort of insights might be gained by mixing and cross referencing usual points of data.
How it works
The website has a pre-defined set of Bloomberg Indexes that can be used to query Unemployment, Apartment Vacancies, Real Estate Rent, and Freddie Mac Housing Index for a particular city. Then the site queries Google Trending on that same city to bring up even more open source data. This way a user can also reference how much that city is in the news or being talked about online.
Challenges I ran into
Attempting a variety of technologies for the first time always poses a problem. In particular the IBM Bluemix back-end proved to be very buggy and difficult to work with. We also had problems procuring the indexes from Bloomberg as they are only available directly through the employees.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
We are particularly pleased with the final layout out of the site and the interactivity it provides. A user may mix and match any two or more data sets as they wish.
What I learned
Integrating with external resources can be difficult and finicky. Node.js, while fairly robust, isn't the end all solution for quick server back ends. Additionally, improved our overall understanding of AngularJS, d3.js, and JavaScript as a language.
What's next for The More You Know
Without having constant access to the Bloomberg data-sets there really isn't much the website can directly provide on its own. However, I look forward to reusing many of the modules created on this for future projects.
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