Where is my tweet?Henok Mengistu

Insight Data Engineering Fellow

Silicon Valley, Summer 2016

Motivation

Motivation

But, this number doesn't show how the tweet spreads-out?

But, a re-tweet graph could show

A Demo

http://52.33.140.25/http://www.whereismytweet.online/

Under the hood

Engineering Challenges

● Stitching the different components ● Re-tweets could arrive out of order

– Spark can't sort across a data stream

– The driver node should collect and sort re-tweets

● I am Henok– Originally, from Ethiopia

– Currently, a PhD student at the University of Wyoming

● Working on Evolutionary Computation● I was also working as a Teaching assistant

– I like soccer, but not skiing

Thank you!

Queries

● On the re-tweet graph

– who are my audiences? ● Geographically, social groups

– Betweenness centrality ● Who is relevant to spread out my tweet?● Identify influential followers