Graph-based analytics platform

A graph-based analytics platform to track and measure meetup.com groups growth over time. Identify community trends and see what people are meeting about in the world.

Check out a demo of the dashboard: Meetup Analytics NoSQL Dashboard

Documentation

Read the full project documentation here: Graph-based Analytics Platform Docs

Architecutre

• Front-end web-based dashboard in Node.js and bootstrap
• REST API via Neo4j Swagger in Node.js
• Data import services in Node.js
• Data storage in Neo4j graph database

Prerequisites

• An instance of Neo4j (>=2.1) running locally - http://www.neo4j.org/download
• A Meetup.com API Key for running data import services - http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/
• Installed node.js and npm on your machine

Usage

Follow the directions below for each component of the platform.

Database

• Extract the Neo4j store files located in neo4j/data.zip to your Neo4j data directory neo4j/data
• Start the Neo4j server at http://localhost:7474

REST API

• From the terminal, go to the api directory of the project and run npm install, after node_modules are installed, run node app. The analytics REST API will be started at http://localhost:3000

Analytics Dashboard

• From the terminal, go to the dashboard directory of the project and run npm install, after node_modules are installed, run node app. The analytics dashboard will be started at http://localhost:5000

Data Import Scheduler

• From the terminal, go to the scheduler directory of the project and run npm install, after node_modules are installed, run node app. The Meetup group import scheduler will be started at http://localhost:3001. It will run once a day 5 minutes after midnight PST.

Specifications

You can find the project specifications as a GraphGist project app at Neo4j for Graph Analytics: Meetup.com Example

Feedback

Feedback is welcome. Reach out to me on Twitter @kennybastani if you are interested in contributing to this project.