BergInsights

Summary

A group of Penn freshmen present their web application, Berg Insights, which displays menu items and wait times for dining halls based on crowdsourced ratings and comments. It also includes Berg Dash, a food delivery service allowing students to order dining hall meals and enable student deliverers to earn money by bringing food to dorms. The goal is an all-in-one platform for the Penn dining experience.

Takeaways

• 😊 The web app is called Berg Insights and was created by Daniel, Dylan and Ari
• 👨‍💻 The main feature is the Entree Map which scrapes menus and crowdsources ratings and comments
• 🍽 The Entree Map shows daily menus, ratings and comments for Berg dining hall meals
• ⌛ There is a wait time tracker that shows crowdscoured Berg dining hall wait times
• 📝 A form allows users to rate meals, leave comments and report wait times
• 🗳 Submitted ratings and comments update the Entree Map averages
• 📱 Berg Dash is a food delivery platform for getting Berg dining hall food delivered
• 🛵 Students can earn money delivering food ordered through Berg Dash
• 📑 Customers can view purchase history and menus through Berg Dash
• 🚚 Berg Insights and Berg Dash provide an all-in-one Berg dining platform

Q & A

What is the name of the web application the team created?

The name of the web application is Berg Insights.

What does the Entree Map feature of Berg Insights do?

The Entree Map feature scrapes the Berg website to display the entrees available for a given meal on a given day. It also shows crowdsourced ratings and comments for those entrees.

What information does the form on Berg Insights collect?

The form collects information on wait times, meal ratings, comments, and contact information to update the crowdsourced data.

What is the purpose of Berg Dash?

Berg Dash is a food delivery platform for delivering food from Anenberg Hall to students in their dorm rooms.

Who can be a food deliverer on Berg Dash?

Any student who wants to make money by delivering food orders from Anenberg Hall to dorm rooms can sign up to be a food deliverer on Berg Dash.

How does a customer pay for an order on Berg Dash?

Customers pay deliverers directly by providing their Venmo username when placing an order on Berg Dash.

What can customers view in their account on Berg Dash?

Customers can view their past purchase history and the Anenberg Hall menu through links in their Berg Dash account.

Who created the Berg Insights web application?

The Berg Insights web application was created by a team consisting of Daniel, Dylan, and Ari.

What year in college are Daniel, Dylan, and Ari?

Daniel and Dylan are freshman, while details on Ari's academic year were not provided.

What functionality does the navigation bar provide?

The navigation bar allows users to access the About page, Contact Us page, and Berg Dash platform.

Outlines

00:00

😊 Introducing the Berg Insights Web Application

The paragraph introduces the video presenters Daniel, Dylan, and Ari who worked together to create the Berg Insights web application. It provides an overview of the web app, explaining that it displays dining hall entrees and crowdsourced ratings and wait times. It also allows users to rate meals and submit wait times through a form.

🍽 Explaining Key Features of Berg Insights

The paragraph elaborates on key features of Berg Insights - the entree map shows entrees for different days and meals, scraped from the Berg website. Users can view crowdsourced ratings and comments. The form allows submitting wait times, meal ratings, and comments which update the ratings averages. The about and contact pages provide further information.

🚚 Introducing Berg Dash Food Delivery Feature

The paragraph introduces Berg Dash, a food delivery platform to deliver dining hall food to dorms. It explains the customer side for ordering food and the deliverer side for students to deliver food and get paid. Customers can register, login, start an order, select delivery details, pay via Venmo to the deliverer. Deliverers can claim and view order details to get paid.

🥘 Summarizing Additional Website Pages

The paragraph summarizes other pages - customers can view purchase history and the menu linking back to Berg Insights. It concludes by describing it as an all-in-one platform for the dining hall.

Keywords

💡Web Application

The video introduces a web application called 'Berg Insights' that the team has built. It is the main focus of the video and everything else discussed relates to features and functions of this web application.

💡Crowdsourcing

A key feature of the Berg Insights app is crowdsourcing ratings and comments for meals, as well as wait times. This allows users to contribute data that is aggregated to show average ratings and wait times.

💡Scrape

The app scrapes data from the Berg website to display entrees available for different meals on different days. Scraping refers to automatically extracting data from websites.

💡Entree Map

The Entree Map is noted as the main premise of the web app. It shows entrees served in the dining hall across different meals and days, based on scraped data.

💡Berg Dash

Berg Dash is introduced as a food delivery service from the dining hall to dorms. It allows students to order food deliveries and other students to earn money by delivering them.

💡Customer

Students ordering food deliveries from Berg Dash are referred to as customers. They can register, place orders, make payments, etc. using the platform.

💡Deliverer

Students who deliver the food ordered on Berg Dash are called deliverers. They can claim open orders and get paid for completing deliveries.

💡Menu

The menu shows what food options are available to order from Berg Dash. It links back to the Entree Map on the Berg Insights website.

💡Purchase History

Customers on Berg Dash can view their full history of past food orders and deliveries through the platform.

💡All-in-one

In concluding, the video refers to their platform as an all-in-one solution for the dining hall, bringing together entrees, ratings, wait times, food delivery and more.

Highlights

The main premise is the entry map which scrapes menus and displays entries for meals and days.

The entry map also crowdsources ratings and comments for meals.

It shows wait times for meals which are also crowdsourced.

The form allows rating meals and leaving comments.

Submitted ratings update the meal averages.

There are about and contact pages with info.

Berg Dash is a food delivery platform from dining hall to dorms.

Customers can order food for delivery specifying details.

Deliverers can claim and fulfill orders to earn money.

Customers can view order history and menus.

An all-in-one platform for dining hall food.

Team members are Daniel, Dylan, and Ari.

Daniel and Dylan are freshmen at UPenn.

Ari is a freshman at Wharton.

Dylan is majoring in computer science.

Transcripts

hi everyone we're the Berg insights team

uh I'm Daniel I'm a freshman in Penny

Packer who's undecided on his major uh

I'm Dylan I'm also a freshman in Penny

Packer who is majoring in CS uh and

we're also working with Ari who couldn't

be here to film the video uh but he's a

freshman in weld who is uh also

undecided um and so this is our web

application Berg insights okay so this

is the homepage and the main premise of

our web app is the entree map which

scrapes the Berg website and then

displays whatever the Entre are for a

given meal and a given day and and it

also crowdsources a rating and comment

um and then you can scroll back and

forth to get the different days and

different meals going one meal at a time

and then below that it also shows the

weit time which is also crowdsourced and

we get our info through the form which

lets you select no wait 5 to 10 minutes

or 10 plus minutes and put in whatever

time it was at and then it also lets you

rate whatever meals you have you don't

have to fill them out but you can and

you can also leave comments if you feel

particularly strong about any given

meal and then once you submit it it will

go to the ratings and it will update the

the

averages and then we also have an about

and contact us page which just give you

information about us and how to contact

us okay great um you'll notice that in

the top left in our navigation bar uh in

addition to about and contact us we also

have a link to a page called Berg Dash

Berg Dash um is the main idea of ber

Dash is that it's a delivery platform um

for food at anenberg um delivering food

from anenberg Hall to students in their

dorms um so there are two sides of this

there's the customer side people

ordering the food and then there's the

the deliverer side so students can make

food by delivering uh BD food to

students in their dorms so as a customer

I'm already logged in you can log in you

can register as a customer I'd start an

order um where I would just you know

select when I want the food to be

delivered um then how many boxes of food

um the price you'll see down below is

updated based on the number of boxes um

what food I want to eat uh and then

where the location

is any additional comments and then then

my uh uh venmo username so that I can um

pay the deliver and then I'll submit

this order um I'll see an order

confirmation um and now uh and then I'll

wait for deliver to pick it up um on the

deliverer side uh anybody who wants to

actually make some money delivering food

to students can claim one of these

orders that's submitted by students and

once you claim the order it'll give you

information about it um and then also

give you their venmo uh username so that

you can request uh money from them for

delivering the order um additionally on

the customer side there are few other um

Pages uh you can view your purchase

history as a customer you can um View

The Menu um which takes you back to Berg

our main Berg insights page um and that

is the basic premise of our site so sort

of an all-in-one um anenberg dining hall

platform