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Inspiration
In light of all the recent crimes happening around campus, we wanted to create a tool that would help our students stay safe and conscious of their surroundings.
What it does
Our mobile app, Stay Alert, maps areas of the UVA campus where crime has occurred recently (past week, month, or 3 months). Data is updated in real time based on the UVA campus police crime logs.
How we built it
Our database consists of the crime logs posted on https://uvapolice.virginia.edu, which we scraped with selenium for python. We used the Google maps API
Challenges we ran into
We had some difficulties cleaning the raw data we scraped from https://uvapolice.virginia.edu, due to inconsistencies in the formatting. Another obstacle we faced was uploading and retrieving data from firebase, as well as implementing our real time update feature.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud to have created a working prototype.
What we learned
Data parsing/cleaning can be difficult and time consuming to manage.
What's next for Stay Alert
We're planning to expand to college campuses across the US!
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