thesteady / social_media_monitor

playing with realtime data streaming/graphing

Social Media Monitor

An app to play with event streams, socket.io, and nio.js.

This dashboard displays realtime data about social media activity (# tweets/sec, # instagram posts/sec) and displays that activity.

Questions someone using this might ask:

• is the twitter activity "normal", "high", or "low"?
• is the instagram activity "normal", "high", or "low"?
• which feed is more active?

Getting Started

Install the bower components: npm install bower -g (if you haven't already) bower install

Open index.html in the browser. I like http-server to serve it up on localhost:8080.

See data.

Notes:

Twitter assets and colors from: https://about.twitter.com/company/brand-assets Instagram assets and colors from: https://www.instagram-brand.com/

Questions

• Why is Instragram flatlined at 0?
• Don't seem to be getting any cached data from the socket?

Things I'd Like To Update

• update yAxis / yScale to update dynamically if the data changes (for reference: http://bl.ocks.org/phoebebright/3098488)
• add a style framework like materialize or bootstrap to make things pretty
• bigger chart to compare the two?
• add a color code to show increase/decrease over previous datapoint (or a trend over x points?)
• use the other stream to show counts over time at a higher level?
• sounds ?
• bubbles that transition bigger/smaller with the data? not very informative, but could look neat.