made at Los Altos Hacks 2018
winner of 2nd Place Overall out of nearly 400 participants
website live at https://asktwitter.com/
- asktwitter.com is deployed and distributed using AWS Cloudfront
- the website files are hosted on AWS S3
- the site is distributed over HTTPS using an AWS Certificate Manager trusted SSL certificate
- asktwitter is hand designed and coded, meaning no templates such as bootstrap were used to create it
- the
3D Viewimplemented in asktwitter is made from scratch, using no 3D APIs such as WebGL (see forest.js)
- asktwitter does all natural language processing on the server side
- the script is run on AWS Lambda (see index.js)
- the standard version of the Twitter API is used to gather 700 tweets from the last week
- the sentiment module from npm is used to determine the sentiment for each tweet
- lambda returns the tweets as an object to the front-end, where it is subsequently processed and displayed
- an AWS IAM user with limited permissions is created so the front-end may invoke the lambda function