GeoStar

Inspiration

The team!

What it does

Visual representation of location data extracted from dataset

How we built it

Python + Excel + openCage API + Google Maps + patience

Challenges we ran into

Deciding what to do with the data. Finding tools to help clean the data.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Affectingly using API to obtain longitude and latitude

What we learned

How to send qeuries to opencage API, techniques for cleaning data,

What's next for GeoStar

Allow interactive heatmap that when hovering over a point, a summary of the related article would pop up in a text box.

Built With

• excel
• geotext
• google-maps
• opencage
• pandas
• python