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Every parent wants their child to have the best upbringing. In a developed country such as Singapore, that means a wholesome development of the child. Apart from education, other factors such as proximity to MRT stations, to play areas and parks, are important factors in parents’ life choices these days. Moreover, there is an increasing trend by which people move to a new house to get their kids enrolled into the “better” schools of Singapore. However, they make this choice based on very subjective critera, such as school “rankings”, advice from friends and hearsay. Considering that moving to a new house is one of the most expensive, valuable and permanent activities families undertake, we believe that families should be allowed to make the best choices for themselves.
Our group’s aim is twofold. The main objective is to enable parents to make better decisions for the future of their kids based on what is important to them. They will be able to choose and rank the different facilities that determine a neighbourhood or locality to be “good” or “bad”, according to the priorities they assign to the different criteria we give them to choose from.
The second aim would be to equip the government to make better decisions about urban planning. Since they will be able to see the summary of the accessibility of such places on the dashboard, they can make policy decisions on which areas to enrich and remove facilities from.
An added component would allow all users to contextualize this app on their locality. Upon uploading a map file and a shape file, they should be able to do the same ranking analysis with other things.
An extended goal of our project would be to expand on the analysis types made available to the government.
