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What are your data sources? What level of detail will you drill down to? How will you keep it updated? What do you mean by dangerous? How will you handle inevit
by Boothroid 9y ago
What are your data sources? What level of detail will you drill down to? How will you keep it updated? What do you mean by dangerous? How will you handle inevitable complaints about prejudice etc when labelling some areas as dangerous:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28712227 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28712227 ?
Overall I suspect your main challenge will be producing an output dataset that is granular enough to be useful whilst remaining accurate over time.
- nooseptic 9y ago1. I can use something like crimereports.com and similar resources. 2. I wasn't thinking about details (i mean low-level). Just want to understand is this product worth to be built)) 3. I can use crime data to compare one place to another. In this case, I can find safe and dangerous regions. 4. "How will you handle inevitable complaints about prejudice etc". I'll think about it
- Boothroid 9y agoOK so dangerous means crime in your app then - but there are also many other types of hazard you could include - natural hazards, disease, terrorism etc. For something like tornados I bet there's some great datasets available. You could also look at scraping news feeds - I've seen apps that extract place names from news data and geolocate based on the place. To an extent I think whether the app is worth building is is dependent on the data you have access to and any process you apply to enrich the data - these will govern the character and quality of your app. If you can give people something they cannot easily get elsewhere you might get more users.