Tornado Probability and Information - Texas

CSS
PHP
PHP
The Website
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Inspiration

On the first day with my teammates, we all weren't really sure what to do. None of us had done something like this before, so we were kinda lost. Eventually, we found out that we all lived in Texas, so we thought that it'd be a good idea to do something involving the state of Texas. We eventually decided that it'd be creative and helpful to make people aware of the possible threat, probability, and history of tornadoes in their area. We started searching for Texas Tornado data, and I began the front end coding.

What it does

We initially planned for the website to be able to do the following:

Find user location & date
Calculate using the location and date to find the probability of a Tornado
Have a map with a location and allow the user to search for other areas and percentages
Show graphs with the history of tornadoes in the area using Java

However, we ran into a few problems. Since we weren't all that experienced, we decided that we'd allow the user to select their county and month, and do a few quick equations to solve the probability. Using PHP, I made a little form that allows the user to select the 54 most popular regions in Texas and the 12 months. Using this data, my teammates and I then planned to use the large area you see to display the history, probability, and graphs... but, we had errors with the data, and it pretty much messed up our whole program, so no data gets displayed.

How I built it

I used PHP and CSS to code the website. Michelle and Claire used Java and C to calculate the data & graphs. Andrew used C# to try and find the location but then used Python to calculate the location & date for a result.

Challenges I ran into

As you can tell, we were not able to get the data in enough time, and it would've taken another 3 hours to code the statements to display data based on the code. We just didn't have enough time.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Coding PHP! I've never done that before! Also, being able to get such a large amount of information, like the location and type of tornadoes in the area using Java is incredible! I'm super proud that we did that. I personally believe that the best part of the entire project was the information compiled by Andrew. Take a look at the video to see it!