Inspiration
Our inspiration comes from our own lack of ability to understand exactly what is going on in politics today. There are so many executive orders that are issued in addition to new cites that write stories about a plethora of issues going on. We wanted to build a tool that we could use ourselves to get small summaries of what is going on in politics today.
What it does
This project uses an LLM to summarize and classify executive orders and news stories. It is a full web-based app that users can interact with.
How we built it
The main logic was just that we used Gemini as the LLM. We fed it executive orders and had prompts for it to return summaries and classifications to us.
Challenges we ran into
One of the main challenges we ran into was that the APIs that we wanted to request data from ended up being broken or had pay limits attached to them. For instance, we intended to grab data from the congress.gov website, but the summaries that we were going to scrape from that API ended up not being adequate. We did not have enough compute power.
Another main challenge we faced was in deployment of the website itself. All of the infrastructure itself took a long time to configure.
We ran into lots of implementation issues, mostly with just standing things up.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that we completed the project! It was our first hackathon.
What we learned
We learned a lot about Gemini! Furthermore, we found a new API that we hadn't used before for executive orders that ended up working quite well for us.
What's next for WhatTheGov Doin
In the future we would like to build out some more features that increases the level of user engagement. Additionally, we want to make the underlying infrastructure better.
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