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Junction Hackathon
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Targetting topics: 
- The DNA of Helsinki by Business Finland
- Improving Your Financial Future by BlackRock
- Bring Mispurchase to an End by Columbia Road (very interesting ML question)
- Smooth Travel by Coco


### The DNA of Helsinki by Business Finland 
Explore a large data set of tourist movement from Port of Helsinki. Discover key interest locations and behavioural models. Find ways to analyse the people flow between key locations and areas, and ways to optimize city services for example for transportation.  



### Improving Your Financial Future by BlackRock
Depreciation of purchases spanning multiple financial years is common practice in the business world - could the same idea work with personal finances?  
What are some ways you could improve spending apps to help people better understand their budget, stay within it and put just the right amount of money aside at the end of each month taking these spending trends into account?  

1. I am not sure if this is implemented in Europe already, but in Singapore, the bank apps has visualisation to show expenditure/outflows from the account (credit card purchase/ transfer out of account etc.) and inflow (interest, credits etc). And comparison of balances this month vs last month. 
2. There are existing apps choosing to aggregate all different bank accounts and get the data from the statements so as to analyse or give you a picture of your expenditure (the categories - food, shopping, etc). UK has Yolt, and there is also balances app. This + a database of depreciation of purchases (luxury) = average spending per month that includes depreciation (more realistic financial budgeting).
3. Saving for that travel trip? Commit to transfer $1 or any to your travel account everyday ->  gain interest on this + discounts for travel
4. Increase in balance: reward with more interest/ incentives

### Bring Mispurchase to an End by Columbia Road
Mispurchases create a multitude of problems: it’s costly for businesses, it’s bad customer experience for consumers and it’s terrible for the environment.  
How can technology help people to buy more consciously and companies to sell more sustainably?  

1. love taking of shopping purchases? These pictures can be turned into mispurchase reminders. How?? Like what Marie Kondo avocates, buy things only if it sparks joy, it reminds you how many items you currently have at home before any purchase! An app that allows you to take pictures, classify these pictures into categories, and pops up whenever you are at the check out page of "any app"?? to prevent mispurchase

### Smooth Travel by Coco
How could your team help improve the customer experience for flyers traveling with luggage?  
We are looking for new ways to improve the existing baggage operations. Whether it's helping the passenger to pack lighter or track and reduce missing luggage, the solution should make traveling an easier, smoother and more comfortable experience.  

