Project POOL
About:
Project POOL is a simple way to coordinate ride sharing with friends, family, coworkers, etc. Passenger vehicles still remain one of the leading contributors to pollution in the world today. With a continual rise in on-road vehicle pollution and gasoline prices, it's an easy decision to hop onto the carpool lane with a buddy. No one likes to continuously pour unnecessarily large amounts of money into gas, so get started with Project POOL today, and join the community of POOL'ers in saving time, money, and the planet. Use Project POOL to: - Create user-specific ride sharing plans on a month-to-month basis. - Organize multiple ride share plans in this easy-to-use, aesthetic user interface. |
RoreAbout: With Rore, you can get paid to post about restaurants, stores and products you like on Instagram. Rore, pronounced like “roar”, pays you to post on social media. Just select the business you are enjoying and take a live picture of you using their services, your delicious lunch or their great products. Add some personalizaton to the post. Notice that Rore will add some hashtags to the post. It is necessary that those stay in the post for payment to be approved. Share the photo on Instagram through Rore and a small payment will appear in your pending account. You access the pending account through the “hamburger” menu in the upper left hand corner of the screen. Once the business approves your post, your money will be transferred to your account. Transfer your money due at any time through Paypal using the “Transfer to PayPal” selection from the “hamburger” menu. The average person spends almost two hours a day on social media. With Rore, you can get paid to use social media. Get Rore! |
heart.io
Winner at UCSB SB Hacks 2019:
Runner-up Best Use of Google Cloud Platform Inspiration Not everyone has access to the best doctors. In fact, 20% of Americans go without any healthcare at all. However, 96% of Americans have access to an internet connected device. As a team, we recognize this disparity in access to medical advice and as a result with our application heart.io we intend to give access to an expert opinion that some would otherwise never get. What it does By integrating convolutional neural networks (CNN) with a user friendly web application, heart.io delivers a personalized health analysis in less than one second. This is achieved by having users simply upload one image file of a suspected carcinogenic blemish (i.e. a mole, bodily discoloration, etc.). Give it a try! How we built it By utilizing HAM10000, a dataset published by the University of Vienna consisting of imageset of size 10,015. We use a Tesla K80 GPU provided by the Google Colaboratory service to train a CNN model for use in the diagnosis potentially carcinogenic blemishes. The steps involved in the model creation include:
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Folio
Inspiration
As we were performing our initial brainstorming into finance-related hacks that could bring the innovation of the tech space into the financial world. We saw that much had already been done. Applications of ML/DL in the algorithmic trading space were being spearheaded by Two Sigma, and Renaissance Technologies, and many previous projects submitted to other hackathons had already tried to tackle tying in Natural Language Processing to stock prediction, with frankly poor results at best. When the idea struck us, "How does this not exist?" We noticed that while there were communities for discussion on the internet for specific stocks. Discussion on entire portfolio allocations was an area that was largely unexplored especially in the modern social network format. This inspired us to create Folio. What it does Folio is a social network that enables discussion between investors on portfolio strategy. Using the Blackrock Aladdin API, users can assemble their own financial portfolios to publish onto the Folio network and discuss their portfolio and others' as well, compare their performance to others on the Folio network, and compete on our global leaderboard. By enabling direct performance and exposure comparison between users, Folio provides the tools necessary to enable discussion, encourage competition and eliminate inefficiencies in portfolio strategy design. How we built it Folio is primarily built with HTML & CSS. Python is used to assemble the API Caller & the data visualizations. Blackrock's Aladdin API is used to provide data for our total portfolio return as well as data on over 6000 tickers on both the NYSE & NASDAQ. |