Betting on the Twitter stream with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Sentiment analysis, Elasticsearch and Kibana The idea From the Twitter streaming API grab tweets for a live TV show whilst it’s showing, classify by contestant, analyze sentiment and provide a real-time dashboard into the outlook. Try to predict good bets on the winners. Optional: Gamble. :-) The tools Grabbing the data: Scala and the twitter4j Java library Sentiment analysis: SentiStrength Search engine: Elasticsearch Dashboard: Kibana (also from the Elasticsearch guys) The show I picked the final of the BBC’s “Strictly Come Dancing” in the UK. [Read More]