Realtime Twitter Feed Heatmap

Background and Overview

Realtime Twitter Feed Heatmap is a data visualization application that displays tweeting activity in realtime. Tweets around the world are shown as datapoints on a map. Contents of tweets are also processed through a sentiment analyzer.

Realtime Twitter Feed Heatmap (Live Link)

Technologies

• Node.js (Backend logic)
• Websockets (Backend logic, clientside logic)
• Vanilla JS (frontend DOM manipulation)
• Twitter API (API requests to retrieve tweeting data)
• IBM Watson API (API requests for sentiment analysis)
• Google Maps API (Map and data visualization)