Dinner and Movie Mashup
Skills Inventory
- Systems specifications
- Systems design
- Prototyping
- Information Visualization
- Mashup
- Javascript, JSON
Scenario
John wants to take Amy out for a date. Amy stays in downtown San Francisco whereas John has recently moved to San Jose from Cincinnati, OH. While John wants the location for the date to be close to Amy’s residence, he has no idea about the movie and dinner options in SF city. Here is where the Dinner And Movie web mashup can help. John can input a zipcode into the application and see the dining and movie options mashed up on a Google Map.
Behind the scenes
- Built using the Google Maps API
- Restaurant data was brought in from Yelp using its API
- Movie data was scraped from IMDb
- Faceted navigation was provided for dining options. On selecting a restaurant category, appropriate restaurants were highlighted with a different colored placemark on the map.
The following figure shows a screen shot of the Dinner and Movie application:
