This application visualizes tweets on a 3D globe surface.
As an example, it uses tweets related to a certain famous sport event happening in summer 2012 in the UK.
It uses the following technologies:
- WebGL Earth to render and manipulate a 3D webgl globe
- DataSift to provide real time social data (tweets with a geolocation value)
The application runs on a very simple Express and Socket.io stack and can be easily deployed on Nodejitsu.
Assuming you have Node (with npm) and Coffescript installed. After cloning the repository, cd into the project directory:
npm install
To run the app server, just type:
make devserver
All client side code is container inside client/src. The bundle gruntfile will take card of compiling, concatenating and minifying them in the right location.
All you need to do is run
grunt
It will keep watching client/src for changes and regenerate all files.