KWLUG Meeting: Monday February 5 2018, 7pm

Data Visualization with ElasticSearch

Meeting Date

Mary Loubele will lead an interactive demonstration of how to use Elasticsearch to visualize the Twitter API. Bring your laptop loaded with VirtualBox. You will also need a Twitter login to access the API.

To participate, please follow these instructions: http://loubele.org/instructions.pdf

The virtual machine for you to download is here: http://loubele.org/Elastic.ova

The demonstration will cover the following topics:

  • How to install Elasticsearch and Kibana on a virtual machine.
  • How to get Twitter data from the Twitter API into Elasticsearch.
  • How to build insightful visualizations with Kibana.
  • How to perform text classification with Elasticsearch.