dash4twitter

Authors: Joseph Perez ([email protected]) and Stephen Pryor ([email protected])

dash4twitter is a simple dashboard application for twitter analysis. It is designed for easy modification for visualization and filtered streaming functionality.

Requirements

• Version 2.1.1 of the Play Framework (http://www.playframework.com/)
• Version 2.10.1 of Scala (http://www.scala-lang.org/)

Setting up twitter4j

To use dash4twitter, you need to have authentication credentials from twitter. Make on application on using the twitter developers page and place your credentials in a file called twitter4j.properties

oauth.consumerKey=`your consumer key`
oauth.consumerSecret=`your consumer secret`
oauth.accessToken=`your access token`
oauth.accessTokenSecret=`your access token secret`

Launching the Dashboard with Play

Go to the directory you cloned dash4twitter in. Use the following command:

$ play run

Then open the file app/view/index.html file in the browser of your choice.