Session: Stream data and IoT

Chairs: Andrea Mannocci, Niaz Chowdhury

1st part

Chair: Niaz Chowdhuri
Slides are available here: https://bit.ly/2MkZ5I0

Key points

1. Introduction to the Internet of Things (IoT)
2. Looking at IoT Use Cases
3. Hands-on experience with an IoT device

Task: Exploring WirelessTag used by a CityLabs SME

Requirements for this task

• WirelessTag Dashboard and/or App

What to do

1. Launch the dashboard using the credentials provided
2. Getting familiarised with the functionalities of the WirelessTag
3. Introduction to the IFTTT and how it can be used with the WirelessTag and other IoT devices.

2nd part

Chair: Andrea Mannocci
Slides are available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oSj0FM02GdWm3SC-XSXv-Cx7A06buMqZgWkCxlP9yik

Key points

1. Get sense of out data
2. Lightweight prototyping of dashboards
3. Get started with Elasticsearch and Kibana

Task 1: Twitter Streaming API

Requirements for this task

• Twitter API keys
• Python 3
• Libraries: Twithon, Elasticsearch-py, Elasticsearch-dsl
• Elasticsearch and Kibana running on your machine

Note: We have a pre-canned Virtual Machine, dedicated to our workshop.

What to do

1. Create index pattern
2. Launch the provided Python script and collect some tweets
3. Head to Kibana and have fun

Task 2: Dissecting bank accounts

Requirements for this task

• Dataset: https://download.elastic.co/demos/kibana/gettingstarted/accounts.zip

Note: the dataset has been loaded already on the virtual machine.

What to do

1. Load the dataset on Elasticsearch
   curl -H 'Content-Type: application/x-ndjson' -XPOST 'localhost:9200/bank/account/_bulk?pretty' --data-binary @accounts.json
2. Slice and dice the dataset