Where is my tweet? A slide presentation for the project

1. Where is my tweet?
Henok Mengistu
Insight Data Engineering Fellow
Silicon Valley, Summer 2016

2. Motivation

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

4. But, a re-tweet graph could show

5. A Demo
http://52.33.140.25/
http://www.whereismytweet.online/

6. Under the hood

7. 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

8. ● 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

9. Thank you!

10. 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