Create API

[bensLine]

Create a API which team E will use to get predictions for a given location and timestamp.

• input: lat/lon + timestamp
• then predict for radius of 5 km in every cell id (90m): predicted pokemonId, prediction accuracy, lat/lon (cell id center)

return results as list

[sacdallago]

I would suggest the programmatical API, not the REST API. Aka: just provide a way for people to import your package var P = require('predictions..'); and then call something like P.predict(lat,lng,timestamp)

[gyachdav]

Additional params should be:

• weather: since we're having issues querying weather services multiple times, we can just let clients donthebworknfor us
• same for terrain: spread the lookup load across clients.

What other params can we offload to the clients?

[sacdallago]

@gyachdav but this should be optional params, right? Theoretically it's trough a call of .predict(..) that these features get added to the data-point to then generate a prediction. Outsourcing this to the caller is shifting the computation to a different place, but at the end of the day it's always gonna be the same process/machine that runs the computation (though, sure: if in the future someone finds a faster API for weather that returns the same params as the one used for the predictions, then they can plug this info in)

[goldbergtatyana]

We found the weather feature not to be relevant for the predictions. Thanks a lot @semioniy for so tirelesly working on the data for this particular feature. @MatthiasBaur will provide an overview in issue 62 of features that will be used in the end.