Trained on 200+ years of shark attack and marine weather data, SafeWaters.ai create 7 day attack risk forecasts at any beach. Assess your risk before entering the water. This is great for surfers, local authorities and beachgoers.
While learning machine learning and doing projects like forecasting crime in certain areas, I decided to take the day off and surf. After my surf sesh, I got home to see on the news that while I was out there, there were 8 great whites tagged at the very beach I was surfing at. Then, SafeWaters.ai was born. After Development, our model showed a staggering 83% accuracy in classifying previous attack days/location in our test data as "high risk".
SafeWaters isn't just about saving human lives, but the sharks as well. Current attack mitigation techniques like shark nets kill millions of sharks a year. We're seeking to become the most trusted mitigation method, so unnecessary nets can be removed.
We also pledge to donate 5% of profits to ocean cleanup efforts.
@evanvalenti If you trained your data on previous attack days/locations, then had it assess those days, I would expect it should be pretty accurate for those days. What's the accuracy of predicting a zero attack day as low risk?
@rossdcurrie almost 100 percent, being most days are low risk. There are some low risk days classified as high risk here and there but that's just the nature of the tech.
Congrats on the launch, very cool! It seems this is only going to become more useful over time and it feels like sharks have definitely become more prominent in the zeitgeist of our day. I'll give it a try. Since shark attacks are so uncommon, how do you overcome the relative low volume of data available to train the models? Also curious to hear a bit more about the big variables that are drivers - water temp, time of year, weather / beach crowdedness?
Its really amazing & heartwarming to see people build products that have a social angle to it
Really appreciate @evanvalenti for picking this up for a greater cause
I really wish this goes a long way in helping humans & sharks, Good luck
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