Inspiration
To provide a mechanism for people to see the holistic costs of their investments
What it does
A web service that scrapes through publicly available environmental practices of Fortune 500 companies and creates a ranking of environmental impact
How I built it
I used Python to collect and parse the data and then assigned each company a score from 1 to 10 based on the environmental impact data that they may or may not have provided. I then used python to convert the data into a form presentable on the web
Challenges I ran into
Finding publicly available data was a lot harder than I imagined. I was, however, able to find public data sets from a company called CDP. This was also a first time app design for all of the team members involved so a lot of us struggled with finding the next step in the design process, but it was very rewarding to get that experience and learn about the process hands on
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Since this is our (everyone in my team's) first hackathon, I'm proud to have experienced the design process from start to (almost) finish, even if we weren't able to implement all of the functionality we wanted to
What I learned
I learned new things about scraping data from web sites, I got my first hands on experience with MySQL and PostgreSQL, I learned about the blockchain, I learned a lot about the design process from start to finish, and finally I learned what it feels like to be part of a team with the goal of making a product in mind, and it was really fun and rewarding
What's next for eko
One thing we all are interested in implementing (and actually how this idea started in the first place) is making an environmentally conscious SIMS game. We could essentially use this as a template to demonstrate in an exaggerated manner the impact of these investments
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