Disaster Dashboard

Deployed Application: https://huntsimon23.github.io/hurricane-code/ Collaborators: Vinnie Miller, Jose Velazquez, Terena Blasberg, and Simon Hunt

Title: Disaster Dashboard

Description: An app that allows family and loved ones to find timely, accurate, relevant information about natural disasters and their humanitarian impact.

Technologies used

Youtube API, ReleifWeb API, MapBox API, New York Times API, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, Firebase (authentication and storage).

Status

This app needs further styling, In addition, the firebase authentication logic needs some minor issues resolved. Lastly, finding more apropriate API's to populate news articles, videos, and map hotspots needs to be done.

USER STORY: Jerome (a survivor of Hurrcane Katrina in New Orleans, LA)

• Jerome shoud be able to search by disaster name or geographic area to quickly find accurate information about an event his family has potentially been affected by.

• Jerome should be able to see on a map the affected geographical area.

• Jerome should be able to see trending news articles related to the event, including potential ongoing humanitarian impact.

• Jerome should have access to information about opportunities to contribute his time and resources to helping people affected by the event.

• Jereome should be able to save his searches by loggin into the site.