Here is our awesome team:
| Name | Role | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Harry | Data analyst | PhD student in health outcomes research; MSc in statistics at UBC |
| Katherine | UX/UI designer | 4th year interaction design student at ECU |
| Pallavi | Data analyst | Data analyst |
| Prasanth | Business analyst | MBAN student at UBC |
| Tua | Business analyst | MBAN student at UBC |
“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink”
Nowhere is this analogy better applied than to the world of data now. Ultimately, data are only as useful as the insight that they can generate and given the current exponential growth of data, it is easier to be overwhelmed when trying to make sense of all the data we have on our hands.
Similarly, with the City of Vancouver’s growing focus on data usage to tackle various key challenges in transportation, extracting useful insights from database will become an ever-growing challenge. Thus, introducing our Vancouver Liveability Index (VLI)
VLI is a powerful tool to simplify this staggering amount of information into key indices which could be conveniently accessed by anyone from a single dashboard. With drag-and-drop interface that allows for quick and easy policy evaluation, our product will assist key stakeholders to incorporate data-driven key insights from the VLI dashboard in their every discussion.
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Prepration contains our preparatory work prior to the hackathon. We reviewed the relevant documents, brain-stormed ideas, assessed feasibility of each idea, and finally decided on one topic.
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Dataset contains all the data used for the hackathon.It has been removed to adhere to the regulation set by the City of Vancouver. -
Scripts contains all the script used for the hackathon. Note that you need a Google API to run those scripts!
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Output contains some of the outputs produced by the scripts. Note that we used Tableu to explore some of the data and produce some of the plots used in the final product.
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Presentation contains our final presentation and app. See here for a live demo.
If you have any question or would like to take futher steps to commercialize our tool, please contact one of us.