Terrificus - Ideation

Timeline

• End of Week 2: Students begin brainstorming project ideas individually using the following guidelines.
• Week 3: Students share their project ideas and vote on which projects they would like to work on.
• End of Week 3: Students choose their preference among the most popular projects

Project Template

Fill out the following template for your project idea.

### [Project Title]

### Pitch

2 - 3 sentences that explains what the application will do.

### Features

* What features will your app include?

### Integrations

* Which APIs will you use?
* Which OAuth integration are you planning to use?

APIs

Your application must make good use of one external dataset or API. Some examples include:

Government Data

• Data.gov
• ProPublica
• NASA
• US Census
• Socrata Listings
• Bureau of Labor & Statistics
• United Nations (3rd party API)
• Google’s Directory of Public Data
• OpenColorado
• Denver Regional Council of Governments

Corporate Data

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Github
• FitBit
• Spotify
• Strava
• Google Maps

Features/Technologies

• SMS messaging
• Email
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Machine Learning
• Data Analytics
• Websockets
• Messaging Brokers/Queues
• Data Visualization
• Location Services (Google Maps/Directions)
• IOT Hardware (ex: Raspberry PI)

However, the list is not limited to these. You can choose to integrate with a service of your choosing, as long as it is approved by your client.