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

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Demo

Bottled Tweets

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Questions?

Danny Hollowaydanny@thehumangeo.com