janclarin / twitter-emoji-map

Hack the North 2016 hackathon. Tracks emoji usage in tweets by country to guess a country's mood.

twitter-emoji-map

See what mood a country is in based on the emojis found in tweets from people in real-time.

• Is Britain feeling like a tears-of-joy emoji or crying-face emoji after Brexit?
• During e.g. Christmas, see which countries are tweeting Christmas-related emojis to understand cultural observances.

Setup

1. Install node.js for npm
2. Install node modules npm install
3. Run npm start to start the server
4. Open http://localhost:3000 to view the page

Technologies used

• Angular JS for the front-end
• Node.js for the back-end
• Twitter Streaming API for streaming tweets
• Twit for connecting to Twitter Streaming API

Stretch goals

• Populating the emojis on the map
• Use sentiment analysis on tweets to see mood another way

This project was created by Owen Huyn and Jan Clarin for the Hack the North 2016 hackathon.