The problem Catastrophic disasters in Africa solves

It helps in prediction of flood and their impact before they even happen.
It helps in reducing damaged caused by flood.

Challenges we ran into

Our biggest challenge was in mining and collecting data to build our models and data visualizations. Given the extremely limited existing data available for floods and water related factors in India, scraping quality data was a challenge. We used a combination of weather API's and scraping techniques to create and compile an accurate and effective dataset. We also struggled with integrating the plots with our web app application, being our first time working with Plotly. Lastly, we faced a lot of git merge conflict issues due to different encodings of csv files and pickle versions across different computer platforms.