Where would you like to live?
A deeper look into US city living conditions
Collaborating with Web Developers and Data Scientists, we have decided to create an application that helps you decide where you want to live. Some features we have decided to choose are weather, walkability, employment rate and rental pricing. The problem we want to solve is how do we help a user figure out where they want to live based on certain living conditions? So far, we have gained hundreds of city’s weather data and continue to obtain more data from a weather API day by day. We will continue to work on obtaining more weather data and ultimately more features.
Technical challenges
This project has been challenging. The most difficult portion of the project was obtaining the endpoints for our large dataset. In order to combatant this, we had to use a virtual Docker environment and run an API through AWS. My main contributions have been finding the weather dataset to work with, obtaining weather data from three cities per day (given API constraints) and deploying an application to AWS to use this obtained data in action.
Current state of project
Currently, we are continuing to update and add to our weather dataset. We are also continually adding more and more features. We seem to be ahead of the curve and on a great pace so far. Ultimately, we want to add more specific features to cities like job and employment rate. This project furthers my career goals by having another portfolio piece and showing the ability to use AWS and work with data in a challenging way.
A look into the future
Ultimately, we want to continue to add as much data and as many features as possible to our application. Our team is taking the necessary steps to complete this goal. We have consistently added new weather data from numerous highly populated cities. We have added new features such as rent price, walkability and so much more. We want this application to be as user-friendly as possible and to obtain the greatest and most accurate results possible. I believe we are on a great pace to do this and I truly think our product will help so many users in their ability to help them find the dream city they are looking for.
