Twitter Grapher

The purpose of this project is to allow a user to visualize large set of data from multiple data sources.

Installation

Prerequisites

1. Java 8
2. Maven (version > 3.0.5)

Adding dependencies

twitter-grapher have some dependencies, so before building the application you've to add them first.

#### Note:

Clone the Project to directory whose path doesn't contain blank spaces.

1. clone the twitter-grapher repository on your machine.
`git clone https://github.com/project-spinoza/twitter-grapher.git`
2.

To add dependencies run the following commands from the root directory of twitter-grapher

`mvn install:install-file -Dfile=src/lib/gephi-toolkit.jar -DgroupId=gephi-toolkit -DartifactId=gephi-toolkit -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar`

`mvn install:install-file -Dfile=src/lib/gephi-cw.jar -DgroupId=gephi-cw -DartifactId=gephi-cw -Dversion=0.0.1 -Dpackaging=jar`

`mvn install:install-file -Dfile=src/lib/uk-ac-ox-oii-sigmaexporter.jar -DgroupId=uk-ac-ox-oii-sigmaexporter -DartifactId=uk-ac-ox-oii-sigmaexporter -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar`

How to build the application

1. navigate to the twitter-grapher directory and run the following command

mvn clean compile package

Running the application

Running at the command line

run the following command from the root directory

`java -jar target/twitter-grapher-v1.0-fat.jar -conf config.json`

Running in your IDE (Eclipse)

1. Import twitter-grapher project

`File -> Import -> Existing Maven Projects`

2. Set Configuration file (`config.json`) located in the root directory

In IDE Navigate to `Run -> Run Configurations` then select `Arguments` tab, In the `Program arguments` add the following:

`-conf config.json`

3.

Run `com.tg.TwitterGrapher.java`

Open your favorite web browser

Navigate to http://localhost:8080/graph