Inspiration
What it does
Students can easily find what events are in the happs across UofT campus using our website Simply type in a keyword and/or description of the events you are looking for and the website, having data mined UofT’s events website will find those that match your request and display them alongside their date and a link to further information.
How we built it
A React frontend allows quick and simple searching to a AWS DynamoDB which is filled daily through a Python script, written to scrape data across several UofT websites, aiming to find events all across campus.
Challenges we ran into
Learning Lambda to generate daily scraping. We ran into a large time crunch, and struggled to implement searching. Initially we tried using Amazon Comprehend, which returned adequate results, but a Knowledge Based Model was used instead to query data from a csv loaded into a database.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of the accomplishments, with no prior knowledge in AWS, we ran into many struggles in implementing searching functionality with AWS, but were successfully able to implement several portions of our design, which we are very happy with. (Especially with leaving to write a quiz @1pm).
What we learned
AWS Lambda, React, Python data scraping with Beautiful Soup.
What's next for Why Wasn't I Invited
Finishing Implementation of LLM with search querying on the frontend website.
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