Developer Advocate blog ...from the client-side prespective

A somewhat random collection of articles written with Gnip customers in mind...

• Data stories
  • http://blog.gnip.com/tweeting-in-the-rain/
  • http://blog.gnip.com/tweeting-in-the-rain-part-2/
  • http://blog.gnip.com/tweeting-in-the-rain-part-3/
• Getting data
  • Historical PowerTrack Ruby client https://github.com/jimmoffitt/rbHistoricalPT
  • Search API Ruby client https://github.com/jimmoffitt/rbSearchAPI
  • Streaming data with Java HBC
  • Streaming with Ruby
• Storing data (in proress)
  • ActiveRecord
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB (next)
• Data Analysis (August)
• Simple Rails Demo App (September)

####Articles up at http://support.gnip.com/articles:

• Geo-referencing with the Profile Location enrichments.
  • Twitter Geographical Metadata
  • Profile Geo use-case
• JSON-->CSV conversion
• Running Ruby/Tk applications as Windows 7 applications
• Downloading Historical PowerTrack files
• "Gnip on Windows" articles:
  • cURL on Windoows 7 - Exercising Gnip Streaming and Rules APIs.
  • CygWin on Windows 7 - Downloading Historical PowerTrack data.
• Preparing for High Volume Events

####Next?

• Writing the client-side code that used Historical PowerTrack to collect data.
• Storing historical twitter data and mining it. Generating stats. Binning time-series data.
• Potential Twitter use-cases (with technical details).
• Data consolidation.