Building a Police Link Analysis Tool in 4 Weeks (Hackathon Time!)

Hey Dev community!

I’m jumping into a hackathon sprint with a 4-week deadline (final submission: Sept 8).

Here's the problem I'm tackling: When police try to connect the dots between suspects, bank statements, and burner phone logs, they're usually stuck manually digging through messy, disconnected spreadsheets.

I’m building an end-to-end tool to solve this—turning siloed data into an interactive visual web that automatically finds hidden links between entities.

Keeping the stack simple so I don't get stuck in setup hell: Python, SQLite, NetworkX, Streamlit, Pyvis, and Gemini API.

The Plan
I'll be posting raw weekly progress, UI snapshots, and the inevitable debugging headaches here.

No fluff—just pure building in public. Let's see if I can pull this off before Sept 8!

Drop a comment if you've built anything with NetworkX or Pyvis before—would love any tips!