Devmountain Foundations

Projects: Examples

Projects: Examples

Overview

The Goal

See examples of successful, reasonably-scoped past capstone projects.

Scene Francisco

  • Student loved living in the Bay Area and watching movies with scenes displaying well-known San Francisco landmarks

  • Used San Francisco Film Commission data and Google Maps

  • Very well-scoped MVP: view a list of movies, view list of filming locations for each movie

  • Many second possibilities:

    • searching and filtering movies, locations

    • map of locations for each movie

    • plan a walking route to see some locations

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Netflix and Chow

  • Student wanted to eliminate the debate over what’s for dinner and what to watch

  • Picks food to be delivered and movie to watch based on your location and video service

  • Used Delivery.com and Guidebox.com APIs

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Landfill Database

  • Student was interested in using data on waste

  • Used the EPA’s Landfill Methane Outreach Program

  • Displayed data by location using Google Maps API and JavaScript graphing libraries (Chart.js and Plotly.js)

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Hamildata

  • Student wanted to use lyrics from the musical Hamilton and visualize connections across songs

  • Used D3 for data visualization

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LGBT MD

  • Student wanted to create an interactive resource to address the problem of finding a medical provider that is trustworthy and knowledgable about LGBT issues

  • Data came from Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality (GLMA), a non-profit organization of LGBT medical providers

  • MapBox for maps

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Not Clothes Minded

  • Student loved wearing vintage dresses, hated searching for ones in her size

  • Used Etsy API and Python library

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WikiGraph

  • Answers the question, How many clicks between one topic on Wikipedia and another?

  • Used Wikipedia data and D3 for data visualization

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Rideminder

  • Student wanted an app that would send the user an alert on public transit when they were approaching their destination

  • Used Transit Open Data Sets from Firebase and Google Map Directions

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