taming social media
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Taming Social Media for Scalable Analytics
Innovations
HumanGeo Group LLC, Proprietary and Confidential
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Overview
• Introduction• Social Media• Scale• Tweets in Australia• Demo
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Introduction
• Currently working with HumanGeo
• Building Visualization and Analysis tools
• 7 years of software engineering experience in the federal space
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Social Media
• Wealth of information
• Widespread use
• Ever increasing adoption
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Vertical
Advantages• Ease of Administration• Traditional
Development
Horizontal
Advantages• Unlimited• Commodity Hardware• Grow as you go
Scale
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Tweets in Australia
Collecting tweets over Australia
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Tweet Collection
Python script• TweetStream to pull tweets from
the twitter API• Pymongo to store them in
MongoDB
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Visualization Tool
Built on Bottle micro framework• MongoDB with Geospatial index• jQuery, Leaflet, and Dust client-
side