Project: Data City

Team Members:

Suliman Sharif, Project Lead

Front-End Developer, Marvin Corro

DevOps, Chris Burke

Graphics Designer, Elena Chow

Summary:

Welcome to Data City! Data City is an investigation/validation platform for different datasets pertaining between the people and the government.

Our motivation serves as a possible way to validate data "as it comes in" rather than after the dataset is collected then published leading to messy data and mismatched records. DataCity can serve as a validation and aggregation platform for all different types of data by centralizing it under an open source validation platform. People can submit suggestions to standards, validation code, and submit their own continuous stream of data under one umbrella.

DataCity was built for the CapsuleHack 2020 and below is our first implementation of DataCity and the methods involved. We are part of the "Cities" challenge. Clean efficient data that is unified and clear is what will drive cities to become "smart". We think this is the first step into smart city innovation.

Milestone # 1:

First acquire as much open data from united states major cities to provide a proof of concept.

Milestone #2:

Clean all data to make sure it's purposeful when loaded into the website.

Milestone #3:

Front-end design the web interface to be a global map and users can select different data based on clicking points at a city.

Milestone #4:

Wire up a noSQL database to store all the data

Milestone #5:

Expand to any country eventually in the world.

Having available and accessible data is going to be the main driver for innovation. Accessible data would mean we can analyze cities pitfalls and improve. Comparing different cities we can learn lessons as to why one is evaluated "better" .

Sustainable Development Goals: