About SecondChances
This website provides resources to help formerly incarcerated individuals reenter society. We provide a list of reentry programs, Public Housing Authority offices to find affordable public housing, and statistics for incarceration trends to increase public awareness.
Our Team
Tony Dinh
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Junior CS student at UT Austin interested in full-stack development. I enjoy playing tennis.
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Nathan Foo
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Sophomore CS student at UT Austin. Interested in full-stack and AI. I enjoy running and eating food.
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Frank Hou
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Junior CS student at UT Austin. Interested in ML Research. I enjoy playing basketball.
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Andrew Lee
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Junior CS student at UT Austin. My hobbies include gaming, listening to music, and reading.
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Jonathan Qu
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Junior CS and Math student at UT Austin. Interested in math. I enjoy exploring new restaurants.
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Data Sources
- CareerOneStop Reentry Programs API: RESTful API
- Public Housing Authorities: RESTful API
- Vera Institute of Justice Incarceration Trends Dataset: Programatically scraped as a CSV file
Tools Used
- React:Used to build dynamic and interactive user interfaces with reusable components
- Tailwind CSS:Used for styling custom layouts and ensuring responsive design
- Next.js:Used to create a fast web application, using server-side rendering to improve performance
- Postman:Used to design and document our website's API
- AWS Amplify:Used to host and continuously deploy our website
- AWS EC2:Used to provision cloud compute resources for deployment and infrastructure management
- Docker:Used to containerize our application for consistent development and deployment environments
- Chartjs:Used to create interactive charts and visualizations for incarceration trend data
- Selenium:Used to automate browser-based end-to-end testing of our frontend
- Shadcn:Used to provide accessible and reusable UI components across the site
- Pytest:Used to write and run automated tests for our backend functionality