Day five: the final stretch

We’re currently sitting on the top floor of Engine on Great Portland Street, getting ready for kick-off and the YRS Brighton team’s chance to wow the crowd.

We’ll follow up with news of how we get on but in the meantime, a few quick words and thoughts on the week from Harry, the youngest member of the YRS Brighton team:

“As I write this, me and the rest of the YRS Brighton team (@yrsbrighton) are on the train to London, where we’ll present our weeks work to a crowd and see what the other YRS teams have come up with. This week, we’ve come up with two ideas – TubeSmart and SociaLibrary.

TubeSmart is a web application that overlays SVG circles on top of a tube map. These circles grow bigger as more and more people enter each tube staton, and the information is updated in real time (although because TfL won’t release the neccessary data, we’ve had to make it up).

The user can navigate back in time and see the map how it was then. The user can click on an individual station and view a graph showing the rise and fall of the number of people at the station over time.

SociaLibrary is an idea for a web application that improves upon the current online library system by integrating social media. Currently there is a lot of data available about where libraries are and what books they have. SociaLibrary uses this data to make it easier for people to access libraries.

SociaLibrary also integrates social media – users can see what their friends are reading and books they have liked.”