D3.js: Cutting-edge Data Visualization

Creating the client application

In the previous section, we implemented the streaming server. The server application allows other applications to send words that you can listen to from the statuses/sample endpoint from Twitter. When the server receives geotagged tweets containing the words tracked by a client, it will deliver the client a simplified version of the tweet. The server doesn't enforce what the client applications do with the tweets; the client application could just count the tweets, visualize the frequency of each term in time with a heat map, or create a network chart showing the co-occurrence of the terms.

In this section, we will implement a client application. The application will display a map showing the location of the tweets ...