MassNow - intelligent church locator
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The document outlines a project aimed at creating an intelligent church locator to help users find nearby churches when traveling, addressing the problem of location awareness. It discusses utilizing technologies such as Elasticsearch, NoSQL databases, and custom crawlers to retrieve and structure data for a user-friendly API and mobile app. The project includes future plans for expanded features and platform compatibility.
MassNow - intelligent church locator
- 1. MassNow intelligent church locator Jakub Žitný, Thanduxolo Zwane
- 2. Outline ● Goal ● Available technologies ○ Indexing and Search in real life ■ Elasticsearch, Solr, NoSQL dbs ○ Mobile IR ● Our solution ● Demo ● Future 2/18
- 3. Goal (1) The “problem” ● one of the reasons people don’t go to church when they travel is not knowing about the location of nearby churches ● there is plenty of apps for searching ○ hotels ○ restaurants ○ gas stations 3/18
- 4. Goal (2) The plan ● a similar service for browsing and searching masses, churches and religious institutions ● ability to find the closest and earliest masses ● api, website and android app *mass is the ‘session’ in church that people visit on Sundays (and any other day) 4/18
- 5. ● data ● API ○ FAST ○ SMART ● simple and easy-to-use apps for users ○ web ○ android What do we need? 5/18
- 6. Available technologies (1) Data ● custom crawlers to retrieve data from available websites into structured form in database instead of manual collection of information ● Database ○ SQL or NoSQL or XML or files? ● Indexing and search ○ Solr vs. Elasticsearch 6/18
- 7. Available technologies (2) API ● REST/SOAP/Other? ● works well with Solr/Elasticsearch => CouchDB + Elasicsearch ● fast, scalable NoSQL ● built-in REST API! ● Elasticsearch integration 7/18
- 8. Available technologies (3) Website ● traditional PHP/Java/Python/Ruby/ASP.NET ● JavaScript ○ client side + server side (node.js) ○ goes very well with REST and JSON ○ express.js ○ ability to write everything we need 8/18
- 9. Available technologies (4) Android ● Google Maps API ● mobile smart search ○ SQLite ○ TouchDB ○ Couchbase Lite ○ or our own custom solution? 9/18
- 10. Our solution and many others: ● elasticsearch-HQ, BigDesk, Kibana ● eventbus, robospice, retrofit, okhttp, butterknife ● node.js, express.js, nano, elasticsearch-js, jade-lang ● twitter bootstrap 10/18
- 12. Demo - API #
- 13. Demo - API #
- 14. Demo - app
- 15. Demo - app
- 16. Demo - web #
- 17. Future ● design ● better smart search ● iOS, Windows Phone ● more data ● even more data ● even more design ● rule the world 17/18
- 18. 謝謝你們