Where Should I Live

Inspiration

As we were sitting in the classroom, thinking about a subject that we all love to mess with, we often got to ideas that use lots of statistics and databases. Then we thought of how effective can mining the internet be in certain subjects, and what isn't already done. We came up with many ideas, all from different areas, but when Tomer insisted that we can't invent a smart student card, we took our second best option and started working on a project that can tell you where to live based on your individual needs and qualities. Considering the amount of people that are relocating these days and the growing need for a definite answer to the question “Where should I live”, this app has the potential to be used by a wide variety of people coming from various areas around the globe. We present our app that tells its users what is the best country for them. We present to you: "Where Should I Live".

What it does

Our application tells you what is the best country in the world for you and your family, based on your ages, professions and salaries. Moreover, it uses online databases and knows first about every new data. It does more then just checking if your family can live in this country financialy - It uses much deeper information, such as the crime and the life quality in every country.

How we built it

In order to get the information, we used Jsoup to export and research online databases. We processed the information into what we needed and calculated every country's score using java. We used Kolin and java together to optimize our code. We also developed an android app to serve as our GUI in order to allow the user to conveniently input the information required and receive the final result in a simpler way.

Challenges we ran into

Firstly there were lots of databases, but almost every one of them wasn't good enough. some were easy to find such as the HDI, but others were almost impossible. some databases were built terribly and were very complex, and it took more time to understand how to get to the information inside easly. Another chalange we had was to use all of

Accomplishments that we're proud of

One accomplishmest we were very proud of was finding the database for salaries by different jobs and countries. after finding it, which was quite an accomplishment by itself, we had to understand how to get to it, since it was built in a very complexed way. Luckily, we succeeded getting the data out of it, and to use it in our calculations.

What we learned

First, we learned the importance of friendship, and the plessure in working so close to the 'cyber cyber cyber' master - Tomer Talgam. We learned how to use data mining, and how to access the information we need from all sorts of databases. We learned about the structure of web pages and how to enter there databases, and how to use Jsoup. Not all of us new before how to program in Java, and we all do now. We learned how to work as a team and we almost had no problems in that field. And the most importent thing we learned, is that we can survive more than 30 hours without sleep.

What's next for Where Should I Live

We first want to rely on more resources such as the happines index and the freedom index. We then want to consider the users's abilty to enter different countries (by his and his family passport). For instance, we can't send someone from Israel to an enemy state, and we don't feel like sending anyone to North Korea (no offense Kim). After that we want to use people's preferences, such as religion, in order to provide them with a more suitable country. And most important, we want to make our app worikng on every smart student card (that of course we will create in the next hackathon).

Built With

• andoid
• android-studio
• database
• java
• jsoup
• kotlin
• tomer-talgam