1. Mobile Crime Website Development
Developer: Anushka Kher | Professor: Dr. Kathy Weaver | Client: Anne Arundel County: Captain Jeffery Silverman
Project Overview
System Architecture
Successes
Anne Arundel County Police Department currently presents information to users via multiple platforms
It is time consuming to find accurate data spread across various systems
Successfully aggregated information from varied sources
Gained experience in responsive mobile development
Implemented server-side scripting and client-side asynchronous rendering
Abstract
Challenges
The project goal was to develop a one stop crime mobile website for residents of the county
Residents can conveniently access information at a common interface
Officers can reach out to large number of residents easily
Developing it corresponding to current website format
Learning new technologies for web scraping
Connecting multiple remote hosts running on local machine for test purpose
Process
Technology used
Server scripting
Extract alerts from Gmail using Google API, and tweets using Twitter API to store them on server
Web scraping
Perform web scraping to extract data from county website and store them locally
Client request
Render extracted data on client side using AJAX web services