Inspiration
We wanted to see how the tweet frequency about baseball was around the US, sort of with an idea that maybe that would let people know where the fans are and maybe be an incentive to travel to those places to connect with like minds.
What it does
Using the tweeter API it would pull in the data, we would parse it for key words related to baseball, and then output the results (ideally on a map to represent density) into a graph with x-axis representing a given city, and y-axis the number of tweets.
How we built it
We used php for some of the basic setup (aiming for website first, then later add mobile phone specifics) Then javascript (d3 graphics), and node.js for twitter api data access
Challenges we ran into
It was difficult to figure out how to get the twitter API to work, and the current latest problem was passing the data from node.js to javascript/php for visualization.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We figured out the API!! And got a nice looking graph
What we learned
How to work with api's
What's next for BaseballTweetNests
Getting all the pieces to work together
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