Sessions at OSCON 2011 about Twitter

Tuesday 26th July 2011

• Mining and Visualizing Data from the Social Web

  by Matthew Russell

  This lab teaches you how to harvest, store, analyze, and visualize data from the most popular social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) with Python, pragmatic storage technologies like Redis and CouchDB, and popular visualization tools like Graphviz and JavaScript toolkits.

  • Python
  • Social Web
  • Twitter
  • Visualization

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Tuesday 26th July

  In E143/144, Oregon Convention Center

Wednesday 27th July 2011

• Hot Potato - A Real-time Processing Framework

  by Darian Shimy

  Hot Potato is an open source real-time processing framework written in Ruby. Originally designed to process the Twitter firehose at 3,000+ tweets per second, it has been extended to support any type of streaming data as input or output to the framework.

  • Real Time
  • Ruby
  • Twitter

  At 10:40am to 11:20am, Wednesday 27th July

  In D135, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck