Elevent

CodeJam 2018 Pattern Recognition Project

The problem

When looking for events nearby you, you manually have to input your fields of interest. There is an inherent bias in the results due to the fact that you cannot possibly list everything that defines you. Elevent makes the asumption that your digital footprint is a good-enough estimate of your general interests.

From the user's perspective

Grant access to Elevent to your Google account's public data
Choose a location for which you wish to find events
Optionally add and remove keywords to tailor suit the event search
Optionally change the amount of events to be displayed

Under the hood

Elevent will gather public information on your online accounts. In this demo, we leverage Google's OAuth2 to access the user's subscribed channels.
From this footprint, we query Google's Cloud Natural Language API to extract and categorize key entities.
With the resulting keywords, We query event web services and forums for events nearby a given location. In this demo, we use Meetup's API.

The Tech Stack

Backend

Flask
Google OAuth2
Google Youtube API v3
Google CLoud Natural Language API
Meetup API

Frontend

vanilla Javascript (ES6)
vanilla CSS
Materialize