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Project Ideas

During our research, we considered 3 ideas.

Job Portal

  1. Problem Statement:

In the current job market and with the growing competition in every field, it has become difficult for graduating students and current employees looking for a change in their career, to get jobs that match with their current skills. Even it has become difficult for the recruiters to find prospective employees that are better suited for the positions available in the company.

  1. Target Audience:
  • Students and Current Employees
  • Recruiters and Employers
  1. Solution Proposal:

To solve the above problem we propose a job portal which will give access to recruiters to create their account which will be verified by the admin and on successful verification, the recruiters will be given access to post a job on the portal with the flexibility of adding various skills based on the profile of the job position. Students and employees will have access to create their account and add a resume, which will be matched with skills and locations of the available openings on the portal and suggest a better match. Students and Users will also have the flexibility to search for a position based on location and keywords related to their profile. The data will relevant to the search can be fetched using the below mention API.

  1. Data Sources:

API: Git Hub Jobs API
The GitHub Jobs API allows you to search, and view jobs with JSON over HTTP.
To get the JSON representation of any search result or job listing, append .json to the URL you'd use on the HTML GitHub Jobs site.
For example, when searching for Python jobs near New York on the site I am taken to this url:
http://jobs.github.com/positions?description=python&location=new+york
To get the JSON representation of those jobs I just use positions.json:
https://jobs.github.com/positions.json?description=python&location=new+york

Hitch a Ride

  1. Problem Statement:

Growing number of vehicles in cities due to increasing population is a major concern for the environment. Increase in the number of vehicles has led to several problems such as excess traffic, excess use of non-renewable resources, all kinds of pollution - sound, air etc. The daily traffic jams mostly during peak hours when people are traveling to their workplace have also reduced people's productivity. But with growing size of the cities in terms of area, people are left with the only option of buying their own vehicles to use them for transport.

  1. Target Audience:
  • Working people of a common company or companies in close proximity.
  • Cross city commuters during weekends.
  • Parents using their vehicle to drop their children to schools.
    Users will mainly comprise of: people looking for carpool and people posting for carpool.
  1. Solution Proposal:

With growing concern about the number of vehicles in a city, Carpooling seems a viable option. We propose a carpooling portal allowing users to search and post rides without creating an account. The portal allows the users to create their account and allow them to save their profile based on which the users will get daily suggestions on available carpooling options from their saved home and work locations. The portal will also suggest best routes using Google map API such as Mapzen. The user will be allowed to post a ride to share a carpool with others. The portal will also allow users to connect to the owner of the post through a contact mentioned by the owner or if the user wants to remain anonymous and first want to confirm about the rides authenticity can use the portal inbuilt chat application to connect to the user. The chat application can also be used by the owner of the post to create a temporary group and add all the co-travelers to broadcast the pickup location or any important information. The portal will allow users to find rides with the flexibility based on the user's entered location's proximity within posted rides. The distance can be calculated using Google maps API - Distance Matrix API. (Can also be rendered as google now application giving the flexibility to users to search for listed carpools based on keywords: far-fetched).

  1. Data Sources:
  • Distance Matrix API: for calculating the distance between two entered locations.
  • Mapzen: real view of the mapped location.

Get Your Own Doctor

  1. Problem Statement:

As of now, no comprehensive portal is available for finding doctors in the US, getting a preliminary diagnosis based on symptoms, or for searching our medical records.

  1. Target Audience:
  • Doctors
  • Patients
  1. Solution Proposal:

'Get your own doctor' is a one-stop portal catering to all your healthcare needs. It will connect patients with optimal care providers by intelligently matching patient needs with the healthcare provider, bridge the gap between patients and the optimal care providers through an online appointment scheduling and a Symptom checking feature for premium users for identifying possible conditions/diseases and treatment related to their symptoms. .'Get your own doctor' web app aims to encompass all this and many other features, all in one place.

  1. Data Sources:
  • National Plan and Provider Enumeration System API: to fetch a doctor's information based on his/her NPI number
  • BetterDoctor API: Physician and practice data

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