Evaluates the coverage health of a franchise by determining which locations (in a provided csv file) are farthest apart. Suggests areas that may need expansion or more coverage.
https://lfost42-franchise.herokuapp.com
Minimal Viable Product:
A console application that parses through the provided csv file, calculates the locations that are farthest apart, and writes the result to the console.
OTHER FEATURES:
Completed:
- Build a Class Library and move methods into classes.
- Implement DAO (Data Access Object) to decouple the data access layer from the user interface.
- Swap the UI and develop an ASP.NET Core MVC web application.
- Make algorithm onclick.
- Develop front-end
- Add mapping for all locations.
- Display locations and analysis results on a map.
- Create a dictionary and appropriate crud methods.
- Scaffold the Minimum Spanning Tree models and control classes.
Current Issue:
- Mapping the locations revealed our algorithm needs to exclude locations that can connect through other locations. To fix this we need the following:
- Build a distance matrix to load to enable GraphControl to implement the MST algorithm.
- Extract 10 of the longest edges and evaluate the locations on a map.
Future Updates:
- Option to export analysis
- Add a dashboard
DASHBOARD
- Number locations in file.
- Average distance between each location.
- Mean distance between each location.
- Heatmap of distance variations within dataset.
- Top 5 pairs of locations that are farthest apart from each other.
- Option to export dashboard results.
DASHBOARD
- Number locations in file.
- Average distance between each location.
- Mean distance between each location.
- Top 5 pairs of locations that are farthest apart from each other.
- Option to export dashboard results.
- Landing page
- Options to run algorithm on full or filtered list (or both, different color indicators for map)
- csv parsing
- mapping API
- statistical charts
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location (object with latitude, longitude, name)
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locations --> list of locations
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distances - caching/csv output?
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data access - locates CSV
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parsing - parses through CSV list (or filtered list)
The project's minimal viable product culminated the C# segment of the Software Engineering course at True Coders (https://truecoders.io). We were to parse a csv file of approximately 300 Taco Bell locations and determine which two were farthest apart from one another.