Twitter Heatmap

A Flask application that uses websockets to map Tweets in a geographic location and produces a heatmap with it.

Setup

1. Clone this repo
2. Setup a virtualenv

$ virtualenv --python=python2.7 --no-site-packages .venv
$ source .venv/bin/activate

3. Install the requirements

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Save config-sample.yml as config.yml and add the values you want to use
5. Run the Tweet collector

$ python TweetStreamer.py

6. Run the webserver

$ gunicorn -k flask_sockets.worker application:app