Inspiration The idea came from a real life app that is much more complicated than this, this app was meant from farmers and would give farmers up to date data about soil fertility, moisture, etc; all in the hopes of conserving more water.
What it does What this app does, is currently, it takes random data for wind, temperature, rainfall, and water consumption (provided by xylem), and tells the user any weather situations they should be aware of ex: if there is high rainfall that could signal a possible hurricane or storm. And tells the user on whether or not they should be conserving more water taking their weather into account for example during a drought you should be conserving more water.
How I built it I built this app using python, and the openmaps api for some of the temperature data.
Challenges I ran into I have spent most of my time working in java script and Java, originally I was going to make this web based, but doing something I know I could do defeated the purpose of doing a hackathon, and python was a language which would be great for something like this, and a language in which I have very limited experience in, so at first I was incredibly lost, the syntax of the language confused me, I would get random parsing errors, and I had a particularly hard time using the Pandas module
Accomplishments that I'm proud of I'm just happy the program works, hopefully in the next few hours I can add in user input, but this is essentially the first program I've ever written in python, and I wasted the first 6 hours trying to get a stock predictor going so I am very proud of what I accomplished in the time I had.
What I learned I learned the basics of python, and a lot more about the data science aspects of the language.
What's next for The Weather and Water Alert Hopefully user input will be done in the next few hours.
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