COMP-6231 Distributed System Design Final Projection

This is a ReactJs (Next) Based Web Application developed as a requirement for the completion of Concordia University's COMP-6231 Distributed System Design Course. The Application illustrates the querying of Amazon's DynamoDB with client-side NextJs Application.

Data Source

The Project uses an open database available here. The dataset contains over 3 million unique tweets about the Top Companies from 2015 to 2020, with their information such as tweet id, author of the tweet, post date, the text body of the tweet, and the number of comments, likes, and retweets of tweets matched with the related company.

Seed Database

Note: The steps assume, you have already created Tweets table in Amazon DynamoDB with primary_key as tweet_id of type Number.

1. Get csv file from Data Source mentioned above.
2. Place the csv file in ./data/[here] with name Tweet.csv.
3. Start the project after completing the Setup.
4. visit loclhost:3000/api/seed, this should trigger a database batch write process.

Setup

The Project uses NextJs Framework. In order to run the project, Please ensure you have NodeJs installed on your local machine.

1. Copy .env.example file to .env and set you AWS keys.
2. Create Tweets table in Amazon DynamoDB with primary_key as tweet_id of type Number.
3. To Get Started, execute following commands:

yarn install
yarn run dev

4. Open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Team Information

• Team Number: 15

Members:

• Pulkit Kakkar - pulkitkkr@gmail.com
• Bo Wang
• Dinesh Kumar

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