Inspiration
We came into Hacktech with one idea that we 100% set on doing, and then we spoke to a couple of the on site mentors, saw a couple of cool demos, and completely scraped out idea.
What it does
Whose Talking accepts a searchable hashtag as input and then uses the tweepy API to collect live tweets from a Tweet Stream. From each live tweet that uses that hashtag, it looks at the twitter user who wrote it, and extracts their profile bio. It does this for each tweet and then parses their bio into single words. It collects these words and counts their occurrence frequency as more tweets come in. The more frequently a word shows up the more representative it is of the population using that hashtag.
How we built it
We used python to write the actual TweetStream script, and then used JQuery, HTML, JavaScript, and Firebase to connect it to the web.
Challenges
We had a lot of trouble getting the python script to accept input from the website and also output the proccesses out put back to the website.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
What we learned
We learned a lot about how to write cleaner more efficient python code, and also how to use these different languages for the internet compatibility.
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