#Visualization of Real Time Geo-Tagged Data with Amazon Kinesis

This repoistory contains code that supports the AWS Big Data Blog article Visualization of Real Time Geo-Tagged Data with Amazon Kinesis.

There are three projects in this repository, TwitterProducer and KinesisApplication are Java projects that can be built with Apache Maven. Globe is a node.js application.

###TwitterProducer

The code for TwitterProducer can be built with the following Maven command:

mvn package

To run the jar file, use the following command

java -jar target/TwitterProducer-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar AwsUserData.properties 

AwsUserData.properties is a java properties file that contains the following information:

Property	Contents
aws.streamName	Name of Your Amazon Kinesis Stream
aws.regionName	Name of your region (eg us-west-1)
twitter.consumerKey	Twitter Consumer Key
twitter.consumerSecret	Twitter Consumer Secret Key
twitter.token	Twitter Access Token
twitter.secret	Twitter Access Token Secret
twitter.hashtags	Leave empty

###KinesisApplication

The code for KinesisApplication can be built with the following Maven command:

mvn package

To run the jar file, use the following command

java -jar target/KinesisClient-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar KinesisClient.properties 

KinesisClient.properties is is java properties file that contains the following information:

Property	Contents
appName	Name of the application (eg DataVizAnalyzer)
kinesisEndpoint	Name of your region (eg us-west-1)
redisEndpoint	The endpoint of a Redis cluster
redisPort	The port used by a Redis cluster
kinesisStreamName	Name of Your Amazon Kinesis Stream

###Globe

Globe is a node.js application that can be run in Amazon Elastic Beanstalk. Zip the contents of the Globe folder into an archive (ie server.js should be at the root level of the archive). This archive can be used when creating the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk application with no further changes. Supply the endpoint of the Redis cluster as PARAM1 global variable to the Amazon Elastic Beanstalk application.