Henry Tran & Aris Koumis

NASA SpaceApps

Silicon Valley Challenge 2016

Task: Earth Live

Problem

Solution

• General public lacks knowledge of events around world
• Long articles lose user attention
• Quality content not readily available

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• Application that:
• Provides realtime information from real people & reputable sources
• Contains insightful analytics
• Has easy-to-use interface and on-the-go

Features

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1. Events pulled from NASA EONET
2. Tweets from Twitter API
3. News articles from Google API
4. Weather from Watson Weather Insights
5. Public mood analyzed using Watson Tone Analyzer
6. Safety Tips to help users prepare for any given natural disaster.
7. Satellite view using NASA GIBS
8. Neural Network Analysis, discovering natural disasters trends around the globe; using 750+ reference data points from Glide Disaster Database

Technology - Backend

Data sent via Primus

Twitter

Google News

Weather Insights

Tone Analyzer

Technology - Frontend

ReactJS

Neural Network

• Neural Network discovers trends of natural disasters around the world
• 750 Events since 1930 gathered using the Global Disaster Database
• Clicking on a trend on the “Neural Net” page displays tips to stay safe during each disaster.

Conclusion

• Implications
• More informed population
• Innovative news application interface
• Resources
• Video Demo
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlQ_hz40cjU
• Open Source
• https://github.com/qwook/3rdRock
• Try it for yourself!
• ariskoumis.github.io/basedworld/