The Isolation Solution

Social distancing policies enacted the world over during the COVID-19 pandemic have left many people socially isolated. Your challenge is to develop innovative solutions to combat social isolation.

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Summary

Our app allows users to see predictions of future stock prices, improve their yoga positions by using advanced machine learning, communicate with other users in the app, get recent NASA updates/news and find emergency contacts and news articles. This app is perfect for a lockdown like we are experiencing now. It covers everyones needs during a lockdown and we plan to add more features and publish this app on the app store.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our App suppresses boredom during this lock down by providing all the necessary things, such as entertainment and news updates, one may need during the lock down. This directly relates to the isolation solution.

How We Developed This Project

We first started off by creating a ML model for predicting stock prices, which we intended to make a whole app only related on that. But after coming across this challenge, we thought, "why stop there?", so we decided to implement more features that we thought would cure the boredom during this lock down. We used NASA's news API to get all the latest news from their site and also got their ISS live streams and podcasts and updated it to our app. We used Python for our ML Models, and used Ionic angular for the main mobile app. The main problem we ran into was getting data from a database, which took many hours to research and solve to get it right, this also leads into our biggest achievement on figuring out how to get data, basically from anywhere, and posting it on our mobile app.

Data & Resources

NASA

Tags
#dontgetbored
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.